[MacDV] Snow Leopard and FC?

[Nick Scalise]

I want all 8 processors to use as much processing time as available.

I want all 8 processors to be at or near 100% usage when I export an MP4. Currently, when I export, two procs go to about 50% and the other 6 are at about 20%.

If I render a sequence, all 8 procs go to at or near 100%.

Since Apple has add Grand Central Dispatch to Snow Leopard, I was hoping this situation would improve.

---- Lanny Cotler <lcotler at willitsonline.com> wrote: 
> What did you mean, Nick, by "procs go to near 100"?
> 
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Gordon Alley wrote:
> 
> > I had one crash in Final Cut Express right after the Snow Leopard  
> > upgrade (actually, I had crashes in a number of unrelated  
> > applications), but I think it was caused by a third-party system  
> > enhancement that hadn't been upgraded yet. No FCE crashes since then.
> >
> > I did have some problems with export dialogs, where Default Folder  
> > was interfering with QuickTime settings dialogs that are spawned  
> > from the export dialogs, and I had to force quit. So I disabled DF  
> > as a temporary workaround. Today, Default Folder was updated to fix  
> > this and some other Snow Leopard glitches (haven't tested it yet).
> >
> > I don't export to MP4, so can't comment on that.
> >
> > -Gordon
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Nick Scalise <nickscalise at cox.net>  
> > wrote:
> > Anyone using Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) and Final Cut?
> >
> > Can you give any experiences you have had - good or bad?
> >
> > Specificlaly, I am looking for experiences exporting to MP4 and  
> > whether it is faster or not.
> >
> > In 10.5, exports to MP4 seem slower than they could be in that the  
> > processors are not fully utilized. I want to see the procs go to  
> > near 100, like when a sequence is rendered.

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Nick Scalise
nickscalise at cox.net