PP CS4 very slow on MAC

I have noticed that when running a 1 hr sequence (wedding), my ability to use the CTRL D short cut for the default transition is VERY slow. I get the spinning wheel of death and then the transition appears. The time line runs fine but anything I do appears as if it is stressing the system out and it cannot perform. I have 16 gigs of memory on a MAC Pro. Any thoughts?

You will have to forgive me, as my Mac-speak is horribly limited, but:
1.) what is your I/O sub-system set up, i.e. HDD's size, speed controller and how allocated? This is often the most important link in NLE work.
2.) what is you CPU speed? This is also important in NLE work. RAM is great, but not the end-all in performance.
In general, I've seen very few posts about CS4 being slow on a Mac. I'd offer a wild guess that it's your System's setup, or too many other programs running that saps the resources that any NLE will need.
Good luck,
Hunt

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Hi
I'm running the trial version of CS6 on a new Mac mini.
I like the features in ACR 7.1 but I'm finding it very slow.
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My dedicated CS6/ACR 7.x system is substantially more underpowered than your Mac Mini, yet I see no such lag in ACR. Dragging the Temperature adjustment slider is practically real-time, with the preview refreshing in a fraction of a second that I can barely see and have no way of measuring.
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I have been doing large layouts in photoshop for years for the film and advertising industry. I have recently started using cs4 and found it to be pretty much unusable when working with large layered files. I have followed several tutorials on increasing and optimizing speed, turning off acceleration, etc. I have checked my graphic card drivers and it is still a dinosaur compared to cs3 on my Nehalem macpro. I have also reproduced the same results on my older Harpertown macpro. Redraw, tweaking curves and drawing with the lasso are all very slow. I have two friends who have the same experience and downgraded back to cs3. I have one friend who claims it works fine on his xp64 system.
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robotpaper wrote:
Nope. I do a ton of maya, c4d and zbrush. I have had no issues with either of my nvidia cards (8800 and GT 120).
If you are saying CS4 doesnt support either of those cards that is rediculous [sic].
Ridiculous is not knowing how to spell ridiculous.
Hey, I'm just trying to help.
I don't see any "GT 120" on the list. The 8800GS and 8800GT are on the list, both with 512MB of VRAM.
I hope you're talking about two different machines. Photoshop does not support more than one card on a given machine, and two different video cards on the same machine spells crashville.
Apple's support for multiple or dual graphics cards seems to be very poor. Many users with two cards report all kinds of trouble.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405711.html
This is a list of graphics display cards that were tested
by Adobe before release of Photoshop CS4. They are listed by operating
system, and with the amount of video RAM that was on the card during
testing.
Mac OS graphics display cards We tested the below cards on Mac OS 10.5.4 and 10.4.11.
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MACTEL iMac 8800 GS 512 MB
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      MACTEL Radeon x1900 512MB
      MACTEL nVidia Quadrofx 4500 512MB
      MACTEL nVidia 8600M 256MB
      PPC nVidia 7800 256MB
      MACTEL ATI HD 2600 MAC 256MB
      17" MACTEL iMac x1600 128MB
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Q. Why can't Photoshop take advantage of more than one display card?
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from: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404898.html
Finally:
25. Jun 10, 2009 10:55 PM in response to:                                     captainlang
Re: OpenGL & 3 or more monitors
Paul,
Dual video cards = crashes in all cases.
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Non-matching video cards = crashes consistently
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from: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2030437#2030437

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Hi,
I am installinginternal disks on the quad mac pro and the transfer ratet in the mac are very slow!!!
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I am new to Mac and I dont know what to do, please help.

Completely uninstall the Kaspersky software AND MacKeeper. Both aren't necessary and can cause all kinds of issues.
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CS4 very slow

I am getting lots of problems with CS4, some of which have been covered in separate topics on this forum. In the main, it seems to me that there is a real problem with CS4 processing relatively small amounts of data. The difficulties I am experiencing are:
1. Text tool very slow. Just typing a few letters sees my CPU usage shoot to 50%. There is a lag of about a second between typing the letters and their appearance on the screen.
2. Pen tool very slow with significant lag when using the mouse and CPU again shoots to 50%, even for a short line. If I use the tablet (Trust) it sometimes works, but suffers the same lag as the mouse when it does. Most of the time, though, I just get a faint straight line between the start and end point. This morning I got the same straight line symptom on the mouse!
3. Screen redraw can be painfully slow and blocky, but this fault is really sporadic
4. There is no apparent difference whether I have GPU active or not. However, I have just had a strange message. When GPU was disabled I restarted CS4 and got the message that there was a problem with the display driver, and PS was therefore disabling GPU enhancements! After that, the pen worked fine, and the mouse too, but then the mouse started losing curves.
I experience none of these problems when I run CS.
My video card driver is up to date. The trust tablet driver is the latest, but I really do not think this is the issue, as the drawing problem also affects the mouse.
System spec - XP with SP3, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+, 2GB RAM, nVidia Geforce 7600GT, Program on Raptor 70GB, Scratch on separate 70GB Raptor

I updated the video driver just after I upgraded to CS4, and I have checked today that it is still the latest.
The really weird thing is that the problems are not constant. Most of the time they are there, the rest of the time it's OK. When there is a problem, it's not all of them either.
I have now noticed that my pen works just after I open PS. However, if I change to drawing with the mouse, or change to another tool, then I just get the faint straight lines as in 2 above. I have contacted the maker to see if they can fix the driver.
I noticed that when I ran slide show the temp on the video card went very high, so I have ramped up the fan in case the temp is causing the card to throttle on me. Would this be likely?
However, I still don't understand why I am getting the message that the GPU enhancements are being cut when GPU is not enabled anyway.

Xcode 4.0.2 is very slow on Mac Mini

Hi,
I have installed xcode 4.0.2 on my Mac Mini, but it is keeping the system very slow.

I have a Mac Mini 2010 with RAM 4 Gb and the Xcode works very good.
I precisely bought it with 4 Gb thinking in it.
Without more information (RAM, model, year), I can not say you more. ¿cleaning?

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My I-MAC is running very slow with the pin wheel, running prior to loading programs, I have Apple TV connected as well as Time Machine in process. Scanned activity manager without success any Ideas for speeding the system up . Acting like a Windows sysytem.. Any Ideas

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InDesign CS4 very slow on a Mac

Hello!
I'm using ID CS4 on an iMac with 2,4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM. I'm writing my thesis in InDesign, so I have basically one big textframe per chapter in which all the text goes. My problem is, that InDesign is getting really slow when I type text, also in the story editor. There is a delay of around 3 seconds between typing and the appearance of the word in the document. During this delay, the CPU usage raises to almost 100 percent. I circumvent this problem by writing in a plain text editor and C&P it into InDesign, but since I have to make corrections here and there, it really drives me nuts.
Are there any means of speeding this up?
Thank You very much!
Till

Peter:
I have tried and tried to post on the forums again. Signed in with 2 different names (don't ask!) and still can't get a new topic button. Here is my issue:
I have a large scale file (several) that I'm working with. It is 60" x 210". The file made in ID is fine, but I am having a hard time making a proofing PDF. Tried Distilling, directly from the app (export), and making them into eps and opening them in Acrobat to create a 4 page file. All ways cropped the files.
Do you by chance have a tip??? Please?!!
And I figured out my loading of the application problem. It was so strange and many steps:
1. Install software
2. If you get a "licesnse expired" notice the...
3. Change the date on your computer to Dec. 20, 2008 (it's stated differently in the Adobe info, but the phone support stated this date).
4. Launch the app or any of the CS apps if you've loaded more.
5. Go to HELP> Deactivate>Erase my serial number.
6. Close the program.
7. Open each application.
7. Change the date back to today's date on your computer.
8. The products should all launch correctly!

PP CS4 very slow on MAC

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