Does IMovie '11 Use Multiple Cores?

I'm trying to decide between a high end 4 core (4G i7) iMac and a (3.5G Xeon) 6 core 2013 Mac Pro. Currently I have a 2009 Mac Pro. I do light video editing, and was wondering whether iMovie '11 would take advantage of the extra 2 cores, as opposed to the faster speed of the iMac 4 cores...
Thoughts?

I'm not sure that iMovie '11 will use all the cores. iMovie '13 (version 10) will BUT.... If you are going to splash 3000-4000 $ on a high-end mac why not layout a paltry additional $300 on Final Cut Pro 10.1.x which is FAR more powerful and less frustrating to use than iMovie and will definitely make best use of your processing power.
Geoff.

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Does iMovie09 use multiple cores??

Does iMovies 09 take advantage of multiples cores such as the core i5 or the core i7? this is really the deal breaker for me in buying the new 27 inch iMac.

Not as far as I know.
One thing to realize is that it is very complicated for an application programmer to write code that takes advantage of multiple cores. Apple has addressed this in Snow Leopard by providing a system framework called Grand Central Dispatch that makes it simpler for application developers to use multiple cores. It still will take one or more development cycles before developers really start taking advantage of this.

Can iMovie 11 use quad core?

Does anyone know, if iMovie 11 can make use of all of the 4 cores on the new Macbook Pro I7 processor? I am thinking of buying either the quad core, or the dual core Macbook Pro for iMovie related work.
I asked this at the Apple store, but they were not sure.
Thank you.

I am using a MacPro (3/2014) with 6 cores and 16GB of RAM.
Encoding a 58 minute video in SD is estimated to take 1 hr 10 minutes.
While the CPU monitor shows the "ProTranscoderToolsb" running at 460% and I'Movie at 58%, it is not clear to me whether this means that the I'Movie is using multiple cores (i.e. 5 of my 6 cores) and is multi-threaded.
Does anyone have an answer for this.
I was surprised that this render would take this long as I upgraded my old MacPro (2008 1st generation but with 4 cores) precisely for the additional rendering power.
My impression is like some others, that if I'Movie is using multi-threading, it is not using it very efficiently. Apple needs to address this on all of its products. It is ironic that Adobe (Photoshop 6 and CC which rip) appear to use the new MacPro's power more effectively than Apple software products.

Does iMovie 11 use the GPU to accelerate encoding videos?

I noticed on imovie ’09, my GPU isn’t used at all to import or encode videos...
Does imovie 11 use the GPU to help out at all?

Some software use the computer’s GPU (addition to or in place of the CPU) in order to complete its given task in a shorter period of time. Photoshop is an example of one of these applications; it uses the GPU instead of the CPU to complete its tasks faster. 3DS Max is another example. It uses all available cores to render faster.
Now you might be thinking those all have to do with graphics... Well... Doesn’t imovie have to do with graphics, too? I mean utilizing the GPU to encode video is a good idea IMO. Even if you don’t associate iMovie with graphics, and somehow think it’s impossible for it to ever take advantage of a GPU, what about the other software that’s completely unrelated to graphics and video encoding? The legality or intentions of the software is questionable... (ie wireless network auditing) But regardless, it still takes advantage of the GPU to accelerate its tasks to incredible speeds. If stuff like that can do it, why can’t a program designed for processing video do it?
Anyway, I won’t be able to tell you if adobe makes NTSC discs or not. I already have toast 10 which I just discovered it burns NTSC DVD discs and even Blu Ray video discs without returning a demuxing error every other video. And to think it was only useful for burning data discs. It doesn’t use the GPU either, but it seems to encode DVD video considerably faster than iDVD.

Spatial Query, Use Multiple Cores

Basic question, is SQL 2012 running on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit expected to use multiple cores to execute it's tasks?
I have a table of points, 480, that has 3 empty columns that are being updated from 3 separate tables of polygons via a spatial join based on an intersection (STIntersects) of the point and polygons. All of the data is in 4326 and all tables have spatial
indexes.
The server running this query has 32 logical cores, but only 1 core is used and it is maxed out. It takes 53 seconds to complete the update. I have over a million points that need this done. I want to assume that if SQL can access more cores it will complete
faster.
I've looked at the actual execution plan and there is a 99% cost on the spatial query.
update A
set CONGRESS_DISTRICT = B.DISTRICT, HOUSE_DISTRICT = C.DISTRICT, SENATE_DISTRICT = D.DISTRICT
from [LegislativeMapData2014].[dbo].[CNRM_INFORCE_EXTRACT093014_COMBINED_GEOCODED] A
inner join [LegislativeMapData2014].[dbo].[CONGRESS_2014] B
on A.FEATURE_SHAPE.STIntersects(B.FEATURE_SHAPE) = 1
inner join [LegislativeMapData2014].[dbo].[HOUSE_2014] C
on A.FEATURE_SHAPE.STIntersects(C.FEATURE_SHAPE) = 1
inner join [LegislativeMapData2014].[dbo].[SENATE_2014] D
on A.FEATURE_SHAPE.STIntersects(D.FEATURE_SHAPE) = 1
Is there anything I can do to improve the performance of the query? Do I need to hint the indexes? Or something else?
Thanks

Hi,
updating millions of records could lock your resource and other users may have trouble connecting or reading data.
In some cases, variable table is your friend, insert the data you needed to a variable table before issuing the update.
with that, you may need to have (nolock) on each table. eg.
[LegislativeMapData2014].[dbo].[CONGRESS_2014] (nolock)
Regards,
gioVhan
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AE CS5 is not using Multiple Cores

I have a six core Intel I7 980X machine which i've got running at over 4GHz, yet AE is completely not making use of this speed.
I've turned on "Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously", and set it to use all cores (it detects 12 because of hyper threading on the I7 CPU's) and this does nothing for both the Preview window/working area or when actually rendering a video in the Render Queue. It uses about 9% at most of my CPU, that's not even 2 full cores.
I also have two SSD drives in RAID 0, they're Crucial C300 SSD's, pretty much the fastest you can get, infinitely faster than any Hard Drive, yet again... not making use of these it seems. I also have 12GB DDR3 running at 2GHz, i've set AE to use 9GB of it, as much as it will allow.... yet i cant even work with HD 1080p material and get near to smooth performance or even play it smoothly with or without effects applied, atleast with the video/viewer window near to 1080p size. Really pathetic. Premiere Pro on the other hard does a much better job but still dont fully make use of the speed and cores available. Adobe Media Encoder also does not use all cores.
Other software and even games make way better use of these cores than Adobe software seems to.
I've got two ATI 5870 graphics cards in Crossfire mode, they have the latest drivers. Performance is like this on any driver version though, but as far as i know none of this software makes use of the GPU's like it does with certain CUDA based Nvidia cards. I'd still like it to actually make use of my other hardware though.
I'm most bothered about AE, so any ideas why AE CS5 is [edited] so badly?
This is on Win7 x64.
Thanks for your help!

I've atleast made the renderer work a little faster by ticking "Enable OpenGL" in the Render Settings, and increasing the amount of used graphics card RAM to 800MB.
I also tried doing what those Blog posts said in the FAQ links - It has not helped much, if at all. So i tried a few different other RAM settings too, which didn't really help.
Then i put the video files on my SSD drives, and that helped a little. But not much difference still overall, very unimpressed with AE CS5 performance. It's took me hours to put together a 1min 30secs video that has 6 video files in total with some lens blur and colour grading effects applied, that's just silly, even for often slow Adobe software.
Cant see this happening but i'd like it if Adobe almost completely focus on performance for CS6 and hardly add any new features. While also making use of the speed of Solid State Drives and having GPU's also made use of more. I mean my SSD's are capable of reading around 600MB/sec and doing 40,000 I/O's per second but none of this is being made use of.

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Hi,
I'm new to Qmaster, and I'm trying to use it to utilize multiple cores when exporting video from Compressor. I following instructions to get the option of a cluster other than "This Computer" in Compressor:
First, go to System Preferences.
Choose Apple Qmaster
Stop Sharing if it's on.
Set to Quick Cluster with Services
Select "Distributed processing for Compressor"
Click on Options for Selected Service. You can choose from 1 to 8 instances, depending on the number of cores you have.
Give your Quick Cluster a name like "op's Local Cluster."
Once you have the options set, click Start Sharing, and close the prefere
I did all this, and it didn't work. Then I found someone telling me to deselect "Managed" and select "Shared" in services, and my new cluster finally showed up in Compressor. However, when I submit batches to that cluster, nothing happens. Time elapses, but to the best of my knowledge, no video is being produced. Am I doing something wrong, or just reading what's going on incorrectly?

Bryan G. wrote:
Jon Chappell, why are you saying that Qmaster has to launch multiple instances of whatever app is doing the compressing? If you have multiple Macs networked together, you don't even need to have FCPro installed to use Qmaster services.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Qmaster3Compressor_3_Distributed_ProcessingSetup.pdf
See p.77.
To export a Final Cut Pro sequence directly to Compressor for distributed processing:
1 *Make sure Final Cut Pro is installed on each computer in the cluster that you intend to use for distributed processing.*
Each installation of Final Cut Pro requires a product serial number. For information about volume licenses, go to http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio.
But as I said, that's only if you export directly from FCP. If you export to a QuickTime movie first and then import that to Compressor, that will work fine without FCP being installed. You will, of course, need the necessary codecs installed on the cluster machines though.

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I have a project that seems to be burning out my CPU. The music starts distorting and crackling, and I've noticed that the little CPU indicator is hitting the top of the chart. But, I also have the iStat monitor installed, and the CPU never reads as going above 50%.
I have a dual core intel, is it possible that Logic is using only one core?

I have the same problem.
On a i7 iMac with 16 gigs of ram. Logic is only using one core no matter what settings I use (auto, 8 or 4), and even using the bus rerouting trick the plugins still run on the same core. That core create glitch when it reaches 100%, but really only 25% of my iMac is used.
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I've just upgraded to an 8-core Mac Pro. I've been using FCE 3.5 HD, and wondering if there's much difference between how it uses multiple cores for things like rendering, vs. FCE 4. I don't need the new video formats that 4 supports, so was wondering if I would notice any speed improvements by upgrading. Thanks.
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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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I'm making a slideshow in iMovie 09. It consists of approx. 200 pictures. Those 200 pics are then broken down into 5 distinct groups. I've applied the Scrapbook theme to the first 40 pictures. I tried to apply a different theme (Filmstrip) to the next 30 pictures. When I did that, however, it changed the theme for the original 40 pictures to Filmstrip as well.
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I am recently want to upgrade my computer for higher quality streaming.
I am looking at AMD 1095(6core) and 970(4core).Since stream is about video encording, 6core should have better result.
But i am not sure if FMLE can fully use the advantage of 6 core processor.
Is 1095 better than 970 in this suition? or there are some other cup you will recommend. (perfer AMD but i am open mind)

FMLE can use multiple cores. it is certified for 8 core and 16 cores machines as well. for single stream, FMLE may not use all the cores fully but for multiple streams higher the number of cores better the performance is.

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I've been a Mac since 2008, so I know my way around the system pretty well. This issue, however, has me stumped. I had an iMac until now and only now am I experiencing some difficulty with my new MacBook Pro. The model I have is the newest 13" Macbook Pro model and I'm trying to connect a Panasonic VIERA TC-L42U30 42" HDTV as a second monitor via the Thunderbolt port.
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Took my mac into the apple store and came to the conclusion it was the software, so I asked them to install 10.8 onto it (this is destructive so a backup is a must)
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