Hywel Phillips
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Hi Everyone,
Is there a way to switch off GPU render of RED footage in FCP-X?
I'm on Yosemite 10.10.4, RED Cine 35, recent Apple RED plugin, FCP-X 10.2.2. Old Style MacPro, 2 x 2.93 GHz 6-core Xeons, 48 GB, Radeon HD 5870.
I ask because bizarrely the introduction of render on the GPU has dramatically slowed down my Mac. Not so much for the export itself, but in the sense that everything else becomes essentially unusable while the render is going. Although the cores are hardly stressed (previously all 12 cores would get used at close to 90% by a render and now they bump along at 10% at most) the UI becomes unresponsive. Even trying this post is like working on an old teletype machine. I'm assuming it is because the GPU is working at full lick, and probably running out of GPU memory to boot, so that there's nothing left for running the desktop and other applications, even simple ones like Mail or Safari.
It is not the end of the world. I have a laptop and can go work on it instead. But I'd like to turn the GPU renders off and compare speeds for interest's sake. I've got a GTX980 on order which I hope may help. It seems silly to have all those cores sitting there doing absolutely no good at all.
Ideally my optimum speed may be RED debayer on the CPU and effects (eg Magic Bullet) on the GPU. But I don't know if that is even possible to do. Anyone know?
Cheers, Hywel
Is there a way to switch off GPU render of RED footage in FCP-X?
I'm on Yosemite 10.10.4, RED Cine 35, recent Apple RED plugin, FCP-X 10.2.2. Old Style MacPro, 2 x 2.93 GHz 6-core Xeons, 48 GB, Radeon HD 5870.
I ask because bizarrely the introduction of render on the GPU has dramatically slowed down my Mac. Not so much for the export itself, but in the sense that everything else becomes essentially unusable while the render is going. Although the cores are hardly stressed (previously all 12 cores would get used at close to 90% by a render and now they bump along at 10% at most) the UI becomes unresponsive. Even trying this post is like working on an old teletype machine. I'm assuming it is because the GPU is working at full lick, and probably running out of GPU memory to boot, so that there's nothing left for running the desktop and other applications, even simple ones like Mail or Safari.
It is not the end of the world. I have a laptop and can go work on it instead. But I'd like to turn the GPU renders off and compare speeds for interest's sake. I've got a GTX980 on order which I hope may help. It seems silly to have all those cores sitting there doing absolutely no good at all.
Ideally my optimum speed may be RED debayer on the CPU and effects (eg Magic Bullet) on the GPU. But I don't know if that is even possible to do. Anyone know?
Cheers, Hywel
