Slow new PB 15" in Final Cut Pro HD

Temujin

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Oct 26, 2005

• #1

I got the new 15" PB. 1.67, 512, 5400 rpm.
Whilst fidling around with Final Cut Pro, the PB get a bit laggy. What's the cause, the 512 ram or the harddrive?

 

paulypants

macrumors 6502a

• Oct 26, 2005

• #2

G4 + Not enough RAM + 5400RPM Drive + FCP HD = Slow.

HD editing should really be done on a workstation for optimal performance.

 

Temujin

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Oct 26, 2005

• #3

Not really doing HD, just use the program for DV editing. No fancy stuff, just simple editing.

Will the performance increase significantly by getting an extra 1 gb ram (about 100 mb left now when editing) ?

 

ITASOR

macrumors 601

• Oct 26, 2005

• #4

Did you have anything else opened when you were using FCP? If so, try it with just that and when you do, open Activity Monitor to see your RAM. If you have a lot of RAM free then it's not a RAM problem. Tell us how much you have remaining (in green) while running FCP.

 

Temujin

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Oct 26, 2005

• #5

Im using Handbrake right now, compressing into xvid. 9 mb in green left 😱

In FCP around or below 100

 

ipacmm

macrumors 65816

• Oct 26, 2005

• #6

I would still get some more ram. Around 1GB or 1.5GB should make everything run a lot faster.