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Jim Murphy
August 20, 2013 at 6:49 pm in reply to: New MacPro?

even if running FCX?
Jim Murphy
August 20, 2013 at 12:09 pm in reply to: New MacPro?

Any recommendations on upgrading the GPU? I have a MacPro 2010 tower with the stock card. What card would be a logical upgrade and what type of increased performance should I expect using FCP7?
Jim Murphy
August 20, 2013 at 12:03 pm in reply to: Is there a way to reduce render time?

Would upgrading the GPU help at all?
Jim Murphy
April 17, 2013 at 4:01 pm in reply to: Memory

I’m currently upgrading to Glyph drives so hopefully that will help with the render times.

I have gotten a lot of conflicting opinions on the RAM upgrade… some say FCX WILL perform faster renders as it takes advantage of multithreading (Apples official response is that FCX makes good use of ALL available RAM.. the more you have the better off you are.) Some still say additional RAM will NOT help.

So at what point do you STOP upgrading RAM? 4g? 8? 16? If upgrading does not increase render times and overall performance with FCX, where do you stop?

Jim
Jim Murphy
April 15, 2013 at 10:29 pm in reply to: Grainy Blacks/Shadows in Green Screen Footage

I’ll give one of those a shot and see how it goes. Thanks for the tip!
Jim Murphy
April 15, 2013 at 4:35 pm in reply to: Memory

I am running fcp7 as well as fcpx. So fcpx would not take advantage of the additional RAM? Seems odd.
Jim Murphy
April 15, 2013 at 4:13 pm in reply to: Memory

I do do a fair amount of Motion work. However I was hoping for increased performance within FCP when rendering plugin effects and other graphics within FCP. I had also assumed that render time would also come down but based on what you say. That would be incorrect?

If this is the case, how can you increase performance? This particular Mac Pro is a 2010 build.
Jim Murphy
April 15, 2013 at 12:13 pm in reply to: Grainy Blacks/Shadows in Green Screen Footage

That was my assessment… Camera issue. So having said that, is there an effective way in FCP to reduce the issue?
Jim Murphy
April 15, 2013 at 2:44 am in reply to: Grainy Blacks/Shadows in Green Screen Footage

Pulling the key doesn’t seem to be the issue. When I look at the footage (shot with a Sony PMW200) in Quicktime straight up, it looks OK… but yes a tad dark which may be hiding the noise. When I open it in FCPX it is immediately apparent that there is something going on with the image in those black/shadowy areas. Have not gotten this footage to a broadcast monitor just yet.

Tried to play with the image in Color Corrector to no avail.
Jim Murphy
November 26, 2012 at 6:51 pm in reply to: Motion 4 will Not Save As, Open, Export

not a problem. This seems to be an issue no one seems to have any idea how to remedy. If I discover a fix I will report back.

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