8 cores or 4 cores for Motion?

Hello,
I know to upgrade the graphics card because thats what runs Motion.
But does Motion use or need 8 cores?
Thanks

I believe the answer is no.
People who've done tests can back that up (I haven't) but it seems to be the consensus when the question has come up before. Motion apparently doesn't make any meaningful use of multithreading, probably because it's irrelevant since the GPU is the one doing the work. It can, however, help you render, because you can now send projects to Compressor which can devote different cores to rendering different frames at the same time. I haven't had any luck using Compressor with Motion yet, however, without getting weird render artifacts in my movies.

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