Mark Petereit
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Kinda wish more people would spend their time creating their OWN looks rather than trying to copy everyone else’s (ad nauseum).
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Well, I don’t think it’s a problem with Apple Mail. I’ve been using it for years and have never seen your symptoms.
Try Apple’s Mail support forum.
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Right! Doesn’t the pilot of a plane tell you to “buckle up” when they’re anticipating turbulence ahead?
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Honestly, I don’t see much difference between USB 3.0 and FW800 speeds.
Well, it just so happens to be hooked up to my Mac Pro via the USB 3.0 board they sent me, let me run the BlackMagic drive speed utility:
Disk read: 88.3MB/s
Disk write: 86.5MB/sThe Caldigit site says “up to 145MB/s”. Somebody tell me what I’m doing wrong.
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Mostly sarcasm. But my inner FCP geek was startled awake at the faint glimmer of hope.
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Caldigit AVDrive. They even included a free USB 3.0 card for my Mac Pro!
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If you go the ProAnimator route, then your object will be rendered in ProAnimator in 3D for each frame (IOW, outside of Motion). But the lines blur even further when you consider that you can match camera moves in Motion to the camera moves in ProAnimator.
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All the clips must use the same codec, image dimensions, and frame rate.
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Your monitor choice is going to be driven more by what you anticipate delivering. If your deliverables are destined for broadcast, film or cinema, you’ll definitely want to invest in a quality broadcast display card and a good broadcast monitor that is capable of accurate color representation.
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Increasing the number of cores isn’t going to make what you’re doing any faster. You’re only using 1 core, with 3 mostly idle. If you upgrade, you’ll be using 1 core with 7 mostly idle. Kind of like saying if I had two cars I could drive to work twice as fast. The only exception to this is if you have your multiple cores configured in a QCluster and are an extremely heavy user of Compressor. Compressor is the only application in the Final Cut suite capable of utilizing more than 1 processor at a time.
Being a heavy Motion user, you might benefit from upgrading your graphics card. And if you’re thrashing your drives you might benefit from combining your internal drives into a RAID configuration to double or triple your effective drive speed.
But the bottom line is, for the current version of Final Cut Pro and Motion, adding cores isn’t going give you ANY speed boost.
Here’s hoping that Steve Jobs’ announcement on the 20th changes that.