Slow as dirt

I'm using CS5.5 on a 12 core MAC with 64 gb memory on a RAID 0 with Western Digital Black Caviar drives 2 TB. The video is 1920x1080i my menus are photoshop layered and have never been an issue before, but this 12 core MAC is rendering the menus like it was a comadore 64. 2 days to render a menu? I just can't help but think I am doing something wrong or my settings are screwed up. Any thoughts? Thanks

I do not know Mac's, but do have some questions:
For those Menus, what are their pixel x pixel dimensions, 1920 x 1080?
You state that those are PSD's. Do you have any Motion Background on them?
I do agree that the time to Render the Menus is not even close to what should be expected. My guess is that something is wrong. If you were on a PC, I'd have a few more questions on the computer's setup, but do not think that any of those things would apply to a Mac, and for that OS, I would not really even know how to ask them.
Someone else will very likely have some useful thoughts, and the answers to those two questions might be helpful to them.
Good luck,
Hunt

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Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 6970M
All while Final cut is exporting. Am I doing something wrong? Is it supposed to go this slow? The codec I'm exporting to is h.264.
I've tried switching from doing this on external Firewire 800 drives to my ssd internal drive to my hhd internal drive. All have the same results, same speed.
Also, I don't know what this means but under the Disk Activity the writes out/sec is 0 and the Data written/sec is 0, sometimes switching to 512 kb.
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My SSD has 150.44 GB Free and 99.7 GB utilized
Final Cut Pro X is the only application running.
No antivirus software. No mackeeper. I have Onyx and MemoryKeeper and Memory Clean but I installed those after the fact and I have them set so they only run when I go in manually. They're not running in the background.
I just read an article by Larry Jordan on how to speed up exports by using optimized media on import into FCPX and then to export to a separate hard drive at Apple Pro Res 422(same as optimized media) and it ran 10 times faster than when I was trying to do it with H.264.
But I looked at activity moniter and even though the Apple Pro Res 422 is a 10 times bigger file it was only using up half the CPU. But even still why can't Final Cut use more CPU to really crank this thing out? It took 45 minutes to import to optimized media then export as apple proRes 422 a 40 minute clip.
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Blackberry Pearl- Why it's the worst phone ever made

Here's why I think the Blackberry Pearl is the worst phone ever made.
1. I can't get photo's off of it. My G1 takes a few seconds. I've worked with this Pear for hours upon hours cannot get my photo's off of it. The Desktop manager really bites too no help there. I really dislike this phone. The software just as bad. I guess they were on the move when Desktop manager was getting written.
2. The phone on occasions would lock on letters instead of numbers. There wasn't an intuitive way to get it unlocked. I found it more intuitive to get a my return from the IRS than it was to get the phone back to dialing numbers.
I'm having my kids dress up as a Blackberry Pearl for Halloween. I'm going to make a Halloween Movie Freddy Kruger attacks people with Blackberry Pearl the topper scene features unsuspecting Pearl user getting tied up and has them attempt to copy their photos off to a PC and the video gets put on Youtube for Christmas.
Very unsatisfied with your product.
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I want to join the fun here and list all the different reasons why I'm very unsatisfied with this phone.
The actual phone part of this phone is pretty slow. It accepts a phone number almost 3 times slower than I can type it in. Even typing a name on their handy search bar takes forever to get a result. If I type to fast, it just ignores a couple of my numbers so I have to delete and retype, at the same super slow pace. I'm guessing that it searches all sorts of contact and history lists to give me cool suggestions, and that's what makes it so slow. Either way, it irritates me to no end that the basic reason I have this thing is slow as dirt.
All 3rd Party and Blackberry apps require the Blackberry data service. Even though there's WIFI on this phone, you simply can't connect to anything except the Browser (and even the Browser requires some setting changes to bypass the upsell screen). This phone CAN do 3rd party services and other applications without the Blackberry data service, but they just don't allow you to.
Sometimes my phone just turns off. I don't normally mind the 3 minute boot up process, but when I'm in the middle of something and my phone turns off for no reason, it just compounds my frustration.
The keyboard freezes up all the time. After a good 1-5 minute "please wait clock", I finally get a message saying there was an error and my input application had to be reset. Sometimes it doesn't quite reset all the way and I have to pull the battery and again wait for the long boot up process.
Its a little unreliable. Besides the phone turning off at random and the keyboard freezing, I still have problems other problems. My bluetooth turns off and sometimes doesn't come back. Once I had to get a new phone sent to me in order to correct that problem. Pressing buttons doesn't always get a response, especially the green "call" button. If the phone is bogged down, it just ignored commands, which is pretty frustrating especially if you press a button and accidently double enter a command that is both the "on" and "off" options. Also, sometimes the screen fades out (like its suppose to) but doesn't come back when you press keys. Or the external notifications just don't turn on. It somestimes just doesn't read my memory card. The zoom feature on my camera also got stuck.
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VENDOR_MAIN delta replication

Hi Experts,
Is there any practice how to update vendor changes from ERP to CRM 5.0?
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A

Anzett,
There is no standard BDOC object that does ECC to CRM delta replication. Honestly I don't know why this wasn't provided as we built a custom BDOC to handle this on CRM 40.
The other programs you mentioned, probably will have to be "copied" and modified to suit your needs. However honestly they personally don't work that great and are slower than dirt due to the reading the change document tables on the ERP side.
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ZV6100 Pavillion RAM Upgrade and user manual

I have an older Pavillion ZV6100 (EC356UA) that has some issues hanging and is slow as dirt.
I have located one 256 MB RAM card and I would like to upgrade it.
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Eureka! iPod mini + Mac OS 9 = Virtual PC!

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I posted a question to this forum about the possibility of running the iPod through Virtual PC with Windows 2000, since that OS is supported. I got a couple of responses that suggested that it wouldn't work, but none of them provided a compelling reason.
Well, to all the naysayers: it works! I finally got up the nerve (and freed up the HD space) to install VPC 5 with Windows 2000 on my old G3. Then, with VPC in the foreground I took a deep breath and plugged in the iPod... and voila! It mounted as a drive in Windows, and I was able to transfer files to it using Anapod Explorer. And it charged the iPod, even though I was using USB 1.1 and received an insufficient power message when I plugged it in with the Mac OS. I was also able to access my iTunes library by setting VPC to mount my Mac volumes as shared volumes for the Windows environment, so I didn't even have to transfer my music to the VPC disk image.
An imperfect solution, to be sure. VPC is still slow as dirt on an old G3, and I experienced several crashes through this process, but I finally achieved a degree of stability that was good enough until I can get a new MacBook. I wasn't able to install iTunes because the version of Win2K I was using needed a massive service update that seemed doomed to failure because of the crashes, but I have no reason to believe that it wouldn't work.
So to anyone else who finds themselves in this situation, I won't make any promises, but this seems to do the trick for me.
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Chrome - New Message - Corrupt Editor View

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How to Restore Menu Bar Bookmarks with Time Machine

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This is the Mac Pro forum, it's pretty much about Mac Pro-specific issues. You can probably get better answers faster at Mac OS & System Software: Apple Support Communities
"ps: My computer has been slow as dirt since I installed Mavericks. And Word 2008 doesn't work with it"
Many older computers will slow dramatically when saddlerd with a newer OS. My practice has been to only "upgrade" when I need something only the newer OS supports. This keeps my older wraps running and the confusion factor down...
If your system is truly "slower than dirt", maybe you need a (new or used) Mac Pro!

Itunes 7 wheel of death slowdown

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this happens on my dual g5 since that is the one i use for music.

Yeah, I'm getting the color wheel of death as well, but only when I open certain songs. The weird thing is that it is usually around the same numbered track on each album. (ie. it doesn't ever happen with tracks 1-3, but almost always does on certain tracks. I can also listen to later tracks as well. It's just these middle tracks on albums that the color wheel seems especially attracted to. Any answers yet?

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automatically sort a
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kicker: Say I want
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them buttons
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make it possible
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> What do you do with it once it's sorted? Can you just
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management for
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My 5s's data has been running dirt slow! Phone company says it's a hardware issue. Has anyone else had the same problem?

I've had my iphone 5s since Oct. Since I've had it, it will go through these periods where the data just slows to a crawl. So slow that I can't even access the App store until I get back around wi-fi. And this is in areas that I am recieving full signal and it's indicating that I have access to 4G. My wife has the same company, but has an iphone 5 and has not been having this problem. I called the phone comany and they advised me that it's likely a hardware issue. Has anyone had a similar problem with the 5s? If so, what can I do?

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Macbook is extremely slow and goes into overdrive when nothing is open

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4GB Ram
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I booted up CS4 last night expecting to see an amazing difference, and well I did. It ended up seeing slower redraw rates and it chugs when I pan through big images.
I have a feeling there's some setting that I'm not doing right. I updated my Geforce drivers.
In the Nvidia control panel, there are a ton of settings for the Photoshop CS4 applications that I've been playing with but cant seem to get a favorable solution. Anyone have an Easy Button for this?

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My macbook pro's fan gets loud, extremely hot, and super slow on tumblr

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knockoutnerd1 wrote:
do you think i would benefit from getting the hardrive cleaned out? like do you think it's to dusty and dirty inside?
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In short, no. This is not something that is done. You do not say what Mac you have but indicate OS 10.6.8 so I suspect an older machine. Dirt and dust can accumulate around the fans and exhaust ports and can lead to increase temperature.
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