Maximizing My Mac

[Jim Brennan]

Okay, so I got 8 gigs of RAM and switched it out my new MacPro.

I haven't seen much of a performance increase in RedCine, although FCP seems to run better with ProRes now.

Anyway, is there a way to maximize my Mac? Settings or something? Hate to sound like a newb, but like they say, "the only stupid question..."

Jim

 

[BASSAM MSSALATIE]

RAID ,,and ..RAID ,, and RAID ,,
This is the way which you will see performance increase :sarcasm:

 

[Manuel Wenger]

Raid doesn´t help at all for REDCINE bottleneck is CPU.
I´d go Redline , didn´t test yet, but i think it´s faster than Redcine since no Preview has to be rendered.

For FCP it´s another story, RAM, RAID and more RAM

 

[Jim Brennan]

Is a RAID going to be faster than one of my internal drives?

I would use a RAID for a project, but for right now I am just doing tests with my Internal drives.

 

[BASSAM MSSALATIE]

internal drives?

I am just doing tests with my Internal drives.

Combine you internal drives as RAID 0 setup ? you can make it in disk utility

 

[Jim Brennan]

I could do that if I partitioned my boot drive. Would that speed things up?

 

[Thomas Koch]

No. Leave your boot drive as is. Add 3 drives and RAID those at RAID 0. Or check out Infiniband Multilane connectors and an external box. I use High Point Raid card with Mini-SAS to an external case with Infiniband Multilane.

 

[Cüneyt Kaya]

Raid doesn´t help at all for REDCINE bottleneck is CPU.

redcine is a GPU-enhanced OpenGL apps
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=5898&page=3

thats the reason scratch is really good with a N`vdia quadro on a PC

 

[Simon Blackledge]

http://www.enhance-tech.com/products/desktop/E8_Series.html

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Atto R380

Raid5 450MBs

will help with Prores and many layers or going 1080 or 2k uncompressed.

More ram may help but debayer (decoding) in RC is more CPU based.

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