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I am a novice in this area so bear with me.
I recently purchased a Mac Pro with 8 Core and 24 GB of RAM as I'm doing a lot of video rendering for my video lectures. I use motion 5 to chromakey the greenscreen background on my talking head video. Most of my videos are 1 - 2 hours in length. Prior to the mac pro it took my mac book pro 26 hours to do the chromakey rendering. Now with the Mac Pro it is about 10 hours to render 1 hour of video but I'm wondering if there are any settings I could tweak to get it to render even faster.
I have a two hard drives - one is the solid state and the other is a "regular" harddrive (forgot the name). The OS and motion 5 are installed on the solid state drive.
Here are my system particulars:
Processor 2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 24 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50d)
I capture my video using screenflow and then export just the talking head video with the greenscreen and pull that into motion 5 and chromakey the greenscreen. I then export/share the file as 444.
Here is a screenshot of my activity monitor while it is rendering a greenscreen video.
http://www.screencast.com/t/gkC3u6CbyeCZ
It seems it can use more memory etc. but doesn't. That is where I'm thinking there is something I can do to make it use the resources available.
I am open to any suggestions and appreciate the help.
--Laureen

Hi Mark,
Thanks for the reply.
FCP cost's $300 - do I really need that if Motion 5 does the same thing? If it gets my render speed down significantly I'm willing but I won't be using it for anything else - I just want to make sure I get a good return on my investment.
And "compressor" is that a part of FCP or another program to purchase?

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