Mac Pro 8 core 2.26 w/12gb ram ATI 4870 512 video card running FCCS 6.0.6

OK, up top sounds like a smoking machine right? It has not been impressing me....I put as much as I could afford in this system. Is there any way that Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 would render faster if I changed some settings. I have a Sony HD cam that I import clips into FCP with Log and Transfer, well the video footage is huge then...1 hour is like 70gb at 1920x1080. I used compressor and switched it to 1280x720 single pass H.264 so the file went down to roughly 7gb. I was thinking that would be easier to manage in FCP being alot smaller but render times are still saying 3 hours just for a color filter. I'm just saying, what the heck, I have a awesome machine...what is going on, what for mat would promise high quality and fast renders? Please help I'm looking my mind and money!

I am using Log and Transfer and bring the footage in as Apple ProRes 22 and files are really huge, I don't have an option to change that for some reason anyway. I own a Sony XR500 HD cam. But for example adding a simple effect like Bloom to a 3 minute clip takes 22 minutes approx. Just imagine what editing hours of footage is like. When I look at the Activity Monitor I see that there are 16 cores but only 5-10% being used, and out out 12gb of ram, only 2gb being used. What the heck is going on? This feels like editing on my 17 MacBook Pro 2.53 4gb of ram. I could have kept that instead of spending $4000 on a Mac Pro that has similar performance. Is there anyone else experiencing this? Will Snow Leopard do anything for me for FCP 6?

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    1. What might be a network solution to this dilemma?
    Without a monitor on the 9600, almost none. At the very least you'll need to configure the server with appropriate network settings for your environment, and that can't be done headless.
    You might only need a display for long enough to setup the network, but you'll need one all the same.
    Once the network is configured your options are either AFP or FTP, but I'm not even sure the old version of AFP is supported anymore, which means you may need to fire up an FTP client on the 9600 and push the files to your MacPro.
    2. Or, do I need to get another monitor for this computer and leave it un-networked and just transfer files manually?
    As mentioned above, you're going to need a monitor at the very least to configure the network settings. I'd be inclined to say at that point you might as well copy the files off any way you can and put the 9600 to rest. If you're really, really fortunate and the 9600 has a CD burner I'd probably use that and count myself lucky
    3. Or, would whatever hard drives are in the 9600 be transferable into the networked G4 or the main Mac Pro? (not sure what they are.)
    The 9600 shipped with SCSI drives, which no current Mac support (at least without a SCSI card), so there's no way to remove the drive from the 9600 and attach it directly to the MacPro.

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