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April 2nd, 2009, 07:00 PM | #1 |
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RAM Upgrade for FCP
I just upgrade my Mac Pro (Quad-Core) RAM to 10 GB. I run FCP. Any thing special I need to do to optimize the machine to get the most out of it?
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April 3rd, 2009, 10:20 AM | #3 |
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If you upgrade your hard drive, graphics card you can bin the 'Final Cut Pro Obj Cache' & 'Final Cut Pro Prof Cache' found within the users:
'Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data' directory. When you next launch FCP it will preform the RT optimization profile. Worth a try when adding Ram, I guess. |
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Final Cut Pro allows a maximum memory allocation of 2.5 GB.
Maximum memory usage in Final Cut Pro is 2.5 GB
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James,
I have installed 3 1TB drives in the remaining bays. Can you give me more info the RT optimization? Thanks. |
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Hi Brian,
Here is the directory link, *change as necessary. file:///Users/*James/Library/Preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data Link within Safari. But as Mike pointed out FCP won't see past 2.5GB ram. I re-run the 'Profiling for RT extreme' after I change things around in my mac, be it memory, graphics cards, hard drives. Although fcp should pick up some of these changes and preform the RT test by it's self. I always restart my mac and make sure no other apps or background processes are running to give it a fighting chance. |
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The Compressor Clusters take advantage of the processors. It's really made encoding in Compressor faster on our old Power Mac G5 Dual-2.5GHz system.
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