Michael Liebergot
July 14th, 2011, 02:04 PM
Hey all I have a question. I'm trying to see if I can get at least another year out of my 1st Generation 20006 Mac Pro, before upgrading. So I recently upgraded some components to try to maximize what I have.
I am running both FCS 3 and FCPX, Motion 5, Compressor 4 on it.
This is my system configuration
2006 Mac Pro
2.66 (2x) Dual Core processor
Snow Leopard 10.6.8
16 GB of RAM
ATI Randeon HD 5570 GFX card (Open CL)
6.5 TB of onboard storage 500GB main drive, 6TB storage work drives Western Digital Caviar Black
Now here's the issue. When working with native AVCHD files from Sony NX5U camera (re-wrapped in .mov codec via ClipWrap), FCPX doesn't run that smoothly.
Now I know that working in a highly compressed AVCHD codec isn't efficient. But one of the main points of FCPX was that it could handle AVCHD files without transcoding (which I'm trying to avoid in my workflow).
The funny thing is that while working with media from the Ripple Training, which are AVCHD, the files seem to run alright. SO I can't figure out if it's FCPX or the NX5U's files that might be the issue.
I'm waiting for the demo CDs for Adobe Premiere Production suite to see how this runs on my system.
I've been working in FCS3 for a couple of years now, and while it works fine, I am getting sick of having to transcode all of my footage into an intermediate codec before I edit.
What I don't know is if there is something I should be configuring on the Mac Side of things to make my system run smoother within FCXP and the ATI Radeon HD 5770 GFX card.
I thought that I read somewhere that while all of the Intel macs were 64bit capable, that the first dual core (not core duo) processors were 32 bit and not 64 bit, which could explain the problem. I am running a 64 bit OS in Snow Leopard and have 14 GB of RAM, so this isn't the issue.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
I am running both FCS 3 and FCPX, Motion 5, Compressor 4 on it.
This is my system configuration
2006 Mac Pro
2.66 (2x) Dual Core processor
Snow Leopard 10.6.8
16 GB of RAM
ATI Randeon HD 5570 GFX card (Open CL)
6.5 TB of onboard storage 500GB main drive, 6TB storage work drives Western Digital Caviar Black
Now here's the issue. When working with native AVCHD files from Sony NX5U camera (re-wrapped in .mov codec via ClipWrap), FCPX doesn't run that smoothly.
Now I know that working in a highly compressed AVCHD codec isn't efficient. But one of the main points of FCPX was that it could handle AVCHD files without transcoding (which I'm trying to avoid in my workflow).
The funny thing is that while working with media from the Ripple Training, which are AVCHD, the files seem to run alright. SO I can't figure out if it's FCPX or the NX5U's files that might be the issue.
I'm waiting for the demo CDs for Adobe Premiere Production suite to see how this runs on my system.
I've been working in FCS3 for a couple of years now, and while it works fine, I am getting sick of having to transcode all of my footage into an intermediate codec before I edit.
What I don't know is if there is something I should be configuring on the Mac Side of things to make my system run smoother within FCXP and the ATI Radeon HD 5770 GFX card.
I thought that I read somewhere that while all of the Intel macs were 64bit capable, that the first dual core (not core duo) processors were 32 bit and not 64 bit, which could explain the problem. I am running a 64 bit OS in Snow Leopard and have 14 GB of RAM, so this isn't the issue.
Any suggestions would be helpful.