Apple Pro Runtime 1.5.1

[Scottgfx]

Originally posted by wuntrikpony
It's not better, it's just has a faster GUI. Also, I use a jog shuttle controller, and it has so much of a delay on it now that it is hardly useful anymore. The reason being that hitting play now takes longer for the video to start playing than it did before. I still love FCP4 more than anything. I have given up speed so I could have features, but it is unfortunate that the speed has been hit so hard.

A couple of things...

I have read of some problems with FCP 4.0, and have also read that 4.1 helped a lot. So, make sure you update if you haven't already.

Delays in playback? What kind of footage are you using? DV? Uncompressed? and what kind of hard drive system?

I'm assuming you have a Contour Design shuttle control? Check www.macupdate.com to find a newer driver. There seems to be some issues as to who has the updates. I had to do a lot of searching to find a newer driver. If I recall correctly, the newer drivers were more responsive. I haven't used mine in a little while as I'm still settling into a new G5.

Finally, OS9's GUI was very simple compared to Quartz. As Quartz Extreme offloads more stuff onto OpenGL in hardware, a fast 3D card with fast access to system memory becomes more important than how fast the main processor is for the GUI. The GUI anymore, is a full 3D compositing engine, more powerful than the $100,000 3D video hardware I used to use 10 years ago! (GVG Kaleidoscope)

 

[wuntrikpony]

Im not a simpleton. I have updated everything. I understand how things work. Please do not suggest simple solutions.

Originally posted by Scottgfx
Delays in playback? What kind of footage are you using? DV? Uncompressed? and what kind of hard drive system?

I am using DV footage with 7200rpm ata drives with an 8meg chache. This is sufficient for DV. Im not a simpleton. I have updated everything. I understand how things work. Please do not suggest simple solutions.

 

[Scottgfx]

Originally posted by wuntrikpony
Im not a simpleton. I have updated everything. I understand how things work. Please do not suggest simple solutions.

I offer help and this is the response I get? In all of my years in the video industry, I have never met a professional as adverse to a little help. Even if the advice wasn't helpful, the nice thing to do would have been to say thank you, smile and move along. But to get such a condescending response. I never called you a simpleton, I simply wanted to provide some help. If not to you, then to someone else who might be reading of your problems. Do you react the same way to advice on creativecow.net or 2-pop.com?

Amazing!

 

[wuntrikpony]

Scottgfx -

Sorry bout that, I am just kinda fed up with this thread. I was pissed off at others here. No hard feelings. This topic has always bothered me.

 

[stingerman]

Re: zzzzzzzzz

Originally posted by maxterpiece
Hale-gosh-darn-llujah. Not a soul on this planet has a clue about how long I've been waiting for this one! Let's just say January 15, 1927 at 3:04pm. I feel so free. Free from the shackles of this unholy society that has been bread into my skin. Oh torturous fantasies, you have not betrayed me! Runtime runtime runtime.

huh

 

[simX]

Originally posted by Rod Rod
He's happy about Apple's efforts to improve GUI speed. He's just expressing that he's skeptical about the speed improvements.

Doesn't seem that way to me. If he was, and wasn't just going on another rant about Mac OS X GUI speed, he would've told us the results of the update after he installed it, and perhaps not directed his comments at Apple's desire to improve GUI responsiveness, rather directing them at the actual sluggishness of the GUI.

 

[Rod Rod]

ok, I'm just a little more optimistic in how I read other people's comments.

anyhow, I can tell you that FCP 4.1 and Compressor 1.1 absolutely rock. this is just anecdotal, but when I apply the broadcast safe filter in FCP 3 on an hour-long program (which is my final step before exporting and then encoding for DVD, to be kind to people's TVs), it takes 14-16 hours to render on a 700 MHz eMac with 1 GB RAM. In FCP 4.1 on the same eMac, a 45 minute program takes 3 hours to render the broadcast safe filter, which means FCP 4.1 is about 3-4x faster than FCP 3. (I haven't done an hour-long program with FCP 4.1 yet). I know this doesn't relate to the GUI but it does relate to the matter of speed.

 

[wilco]

Originally posted by wuntrikpony
Im not a simpleton. I have updated everything. I understand how things work. Please do not suggest simple solutions.

What a dick.