Tips on how to speed up preview/debug build time?

I am building an air2.5 application and I am still learning the finer details of Flash.
Our project has a number of images and sounds, and the file size is starting to get up there, but nothing that we are worried about for our end product.
However, every time I try to run the program by using CTRL+Enter or CTRL+SHIFT+Enter (which I use ALOT), it takes FOREVER to "exporting SWF movie" (like 3 minutes every time) and I suspect as the project continues to grow and more assets are added, it will get signfigantly worse.
I've tried to disable the "compress move" option in the publish settings, but it made no difference.
All my images and sounds have been setup as classes so i can reference them through my as files and flash code, I rarely do anything "on the stage". Alost all my sounds are wav files (for the moment) and the images are PNG's (as I need the alpha channels)
The only thing that I was able to think of is making the graphics and sound assets in some kind of pre-compiled library that doesn't have to get compressed and compiled every tiem I try to debug, only I haven't a clue how to do that, or if it's possible.
Does anyone know of any ways to improve the build time for debugging and such?
Or anyone have any tips and tricks/do's and don'ts when it comes to this kind of thing?
Thanks.

the SWC thing may be exactly what I need.
I read that link you gave me and I will definately do a little more research on SWC, even if it's not completely clear how to use them at this particular moment.
let's say I have an image called MyImage.png which I have setup to export for actionscript on frame 1 and the class is called "MyImage"
Assume I have the same thing setup in my library for a sound file called "MySound"
Now, without doing any reading first, I would assume that I would create a new fla file, put those 2 assets in said fla's library and then compile that fla into an swc? And then access thoughs assets in my main project by importing the swc into it? or it is more simple than that?
Cheers
Dave

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[Forum FAQ]Tips on Upgrading Windows 10 Technical Preview from Build 9841 to 9860

The new Build 9860 for Windows 10 Technical Preview has been released recently. Here, I would like to share some experience on upgrading Windows 10 Technical Preview from Build 9841 to 9860.
Tip 1: How to use Refresh option to upgrade.
Scenario
In order to upgrade to Build 9860, the new preview build should be downloaded firstly:
PC settings-> Upgrade and recovery->
Preview builds, which is as shown below.
If there are multiples PCs which are running Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9841 need to be upgraded, you may just want to use one copy of downloaded preview build to upgrade all of them instead of downloading the new build on each PC.
Solution
If you have upgraded one PC from Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9841 to 9860, the downloaded preview build (install.esd) can be used to upgrade other PCs. Here we can use install.esd to export the install.wim, then this intall.wim can be used as a recovery
image.
Step 1: Understand the basic information about install.esd.
Install.esd file is located at C:\ $WINDOWS.~BT\sources folder at first. When the upgrade is finished, it would be copied to
C:\RecoveryImage folder. Here is the information in setupact.log which contains information about setup actions during installation:
2014-10-28 19:03:38, Info SP Moving file D:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\Install.esd to D:\RecoveryImage\Install.esd
What’s more, the command Dism /Get-Wiminfo /Wimfile:<path_to_install.esd> is used to display the information about the file install.esd:
Step 2: Export the file install.wim.
The following command is used to export Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9860 image:
Dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:<path_to_install.esd>
/SourceIndex:4 /DestinationImageFile:<path_to_install.wim> /Compress:recovery
Step 3: Copy exported install.wim to other Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9841 computers, and set the recovery image.
For example, the install.wim has been copied to C:\image folder, the following command is used to set the recovery image:
Reagentc /setosimage /path C:\image /index 1 /target C:\Windows.
Step 4: Use Refresh option to upgrade your PC.
Go to
Update and recovery setting under PC settings, choose
Refresh your PC without affecting your files:
Note:
Applications needed to be reinstalled.
System would use the exported install.wim to refresh Windows 10 Technical Preview from Build 9841 to 9860:
Note: If you use install.esd to refresh directly, just need point the index location as 4:
Reagentc /setosimage /path C:\image /index 4 /target C:\Windows. However, install.wim is easier for deployment, such as creating bootable USB, WDS and SCCM deployment.
Tip 2: Workground to upgrade native boot VHD.
Scenario
Many users use the method native boot into VHD to test Windows 10 Technical Preview. However, there is a limitation on native boot when using VHDs:
If you boot from a VHD, you cannot upgrade the Windows version in the VHD to a newer version. This article describes how to upgrade VHD system Windows 10 Technical Preview from Build 9841 to 9860.
Solution
Step 1: Upgrade in Hyper-V.
Use Hyper-v to create a new virtual machine, and use your native boot VHD
as an existing virtual hard disk:
If booting from this virtual disk directly, it would fail to start due to lacking of boot files. You can use Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9841 ISO file to repair the startup issue:
You can boot intosystem successfully in Hyper-v, then the upgrade process would be supported.
Step 2: Create Native Boot to VHD.
When the upgrade is finished, shut down the virtual machine, use the same way to create Native Boot to VHD:
Mount the 9860 native boot VHD file.
Use the following command to create boot entry for VHD system: Bcdboot
v:\windows (v: represents the mounted virtual disk drive letter).
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Hi Arman mohseni,
From my observation, if I click download now, it would create a BITS task:
We can use following command to check:
Import-module bitstransfer
Get-bitstransfer –allusers
From the output, we can see the system account created a BITS job for transferring, under the C:\Windows\Software Distribution\download, we can get the temporary downloaded file, which is approximately about 2.5G.
After we restart, and go to C:\Windows\Software Distribution\download, the temporary file is gone.
If I click the download again, the BITS would create a new task, a new temporary file, if we compare the JobIds of the two times downloading, they are totally different.
On the other hand, if we download a windows update, the JobId would be kept, and the temporary files would be kept, too.
Alex Zhao
TechNet Community Support

How to speed up the query result time

While executing the following query the result comes after 22 secs.
How could i minimize this time ? Please suggest.
SELECT DISTINCT
       PERIOD_NO,
       ITEM_CODE,
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FROM   SHEET_HEAD, SHEET_DETAIL, ITEM_DETAIL
WHERE WH_SYS_ID = WD_WH_SYS_ID
AND    ITEM_CODE = WD_ITEM_CODE(+)
AND    PERIOD_NO BETWEEN :PERIOD1 AND :PERIOD2
AND    WH_REVISION_NO = 0
AND    WH_LEVEL_CODE NOT IN (SELECT WH_LEVEL_CODE FROM SHEET_HEAD WHERE WH_REVISION_NO = 1)
GROUP BY   ITEM_CODE, ITEM_NAME, WH_PERIOD_NOSanjay

Hi,
with speed the suggest would always be expirement with indexing on the parameters, after first analysing what is currently happening in terms of full table scans etc that are 'most expensive'.
In terms of the specifics on your code the following sticks out as costly; -
AND    WH_LEVEL_CODE NOT IN (SELECT WH_LEVEL_CODE FROM SHEET_HEAD WHERE WH_REVISION_NO = 1)Here I would see if you can rewrite it, perhaps with a left join / self join to achieve the same ends, compare the timings you may be surprised.
regards,
Robert.

How to speed up macbook pro?

My computer is 4 years old and it has started to freeze alot. Also I am unable to connect to internet via ethernet cable. Any tips on how to speed up the computer and prevent freezes?

When you next have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Scroll back in the log to the time you noted above. Select any messages timestamped from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first. Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

How can I change default build time from 1 sec to .5 sec?

Whenever I create a build, the default time is 1 sec. I'd like it to be .5 sec. I use a blank master slide. How can I change the default build time for all slides? Or can I?

I'm sorry, but Apple does not provide a downgrade path for iOS. Because downgrading is unsupported by Apple we cannot discuss it on these forums, but you can use Google to find information on how to install an older version of iOS on any iDevice.

How to speed up tool tips ( hints ) ??

hi folks
does any one know how to speed up tool tips in mac ??
if u go to any tool in any application in mac and hold your mouse on it for a second , a tip will be showen telling you something on this tool
in mac i have to wait 2 - 3 second so i can see the tips
why ??
hope to find answer

I believe the default time for Cocoa apps is 2 seconds in Leopard. You can speed this up with a Terminal command. Launch Terminal, then copy and paste this command and press the Return key:
defaults write -g NSInitialToolTipDelay -int 100
That final number is milliseconds, so that should be rather speedy. It will also speed up the display of the location when you mouse over your Spotlight results. You may have to restart to see the change. Don't know what, if anything, you can do for Carbon apps.
Francine
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My Mac has gone really slow since upgrading to Mavericks. Any suggestions as to how to speed things up again?

My Mac has gone really slow since upgrading to Mavericks. Any suggestions as to how to speed things up again?

First, back up all data immediately unless you already have a current backup. If you can't back up, stop here. Do not take any of the steps below.
Step 1
This diagnostic procedure will query the log for messages that may indicate a system issue. It changes nothing, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|pagin|timed? ?o' | tail | awk '/:/{$4=""; print}' | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key.
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Normally the command will produce no output, and the window will be empty. If the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window) has anything in it, stop here and post it — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the TextEdit window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.
Step 2
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Reset the System Management Controller.
Run Software Update. If there's a firmware update, install it.
If you're booting from an aftermarket SSD, see whether there's a firmware update for it.
If you have a portable computer, check the cycle count of the battery. It may be due for replacement.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane. See whether there's any change.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
If you have a MacBook Pro with dual graphics, disable automatic graphics switching in the Energy Saverpreference pane for better performance at the cost of shorter battery life.
Step 3
When you notice the problem, launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the View menu or the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for User, System, and Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the Memory tab. What value is shown in the bottom part of the window for Swap used?
Next, select the Disk tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in andWrites out.)
Step 4
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combinationcommand-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

Tips on how to write efficient java code for java mapping

hi
I do not have much knowledge in Java
Can anybody tell me some tips on how to write efficient and optimised java code to be used in java mapping
Thanks,
Loveena

hi D'za,
JAVA in xi
A very important place where you will use JAVA in XI is while doing your Mapping. There will be cases when JAVA MAPPING is the best solution to go for. There are 2 types of Parsers available for JAVA Mapping. DOM Parser and SAX parser. Just got through the following links to understand more on Java Mapping and the APIs available.http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/package-summary.html http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Document.html http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/package-frame.html /people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/29/java-mapping-part-i
/people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/29/java-mapping-part-ii /people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/29/java-mapping-part-iii
JAVA mapping -
/people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/29/java-mapping-part-i /people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/29/java-mapping-part-ii /people/prasad.ulagappan2/blog/2005/06/29/java-mapping-part-iii /people/ravikumar.allampallam/blog/2005/06/24/convert-any-flat-file-to-any-idoc-java-mapping /people/amol.joshi2/blog/2006/03/10/think-objects-when-creating-java-mappings /people/sameer.shadab/blog/2005/09/29/testing-abap-mapping
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Re: Example code DOM PARSER API -
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/package-frame.html DOM --- /people/thorsten.nordholmsbirk/blog/2006/08/10/using-jaxp-to-both-parse-and-emit-xml-in-xi-java-mapping-programs tutorial sax and dom
For a tutorial on the methods of SAX and DOM http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.1/tutorial/doc/
SAX AND dom PARSER ( BY thorsten) -
example /people/thorsten.nordholmsbirk/blog/2006/08/10/using-jaxp-to-both-parse-and-emit-xml-in-xi-java-mapping-programs java mapping example ( testing and debugging) /people/stefan.grube/blog/2006/10/23/testing-and-debugging-java-mapping-in-developer-studio
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How do I choose Preview as default over Adobe Reader?

Once you update one thing . . . can of worms. How do I choose preview as default over Adobe Reader?
Here's why I want to change the default viewer, in case anyone has ideas: When I updated to Reader X (as required by some of our industry-specific programs) my Quickbooks Online financial program no longer prints in either Safari or Firefox.
I called QB and they said they only support Reader 9.3. Uninstalled Reader X, tried install 9.3. No go--isn't compatible with Mac OS 10.6.7. Gave QB my "thoughts" on their not being up to speed with Reader updates . . .
So, maybe changing to Preview as the default reader will work. Adobe 10 has overruled Preview.
How do I set the preference to go back to Preview?
Any help appreciated, thanks.

Csound1 wrote:
texricardo wrote:
Worked a treat - thanks for your good, accurate advice!
Thanks, maybe a 'correct answer appellation applies?
Yes, indeed.

How do I set Preview to be the PDF defult reader?

How do I set Preview to be the PDF defult reader?

Thanks T P I got this from your search: http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/31/set-default-pdf-viewer-mac-os-x/
for others here is the answer.
If you’ve downloaded Adobe Acrobat on the Mac you’ve probably discovered that it takes overPreview as the default PDF viewer in OS X, which is annoying because Acrobat is slow to load and a fairly bloated application. There’s little need to use Acrobat Reader as the way to view PDF files, so here’s how to change it back to Preview.
Change the Default PDF Viewer in Mac OS X
From the Mac OS X desktop, find a PDF file and hit Command+i to “Get Info” on the file
Click on the arrow next to “Open with:” to expand and access the default application list
Click the pull-down menu and choose “Preview” from the list, or if it’s not visible, navigate to it by choosing “Other”
With Preview.app selected, click on the “Change All” button
This will restore the leaner and very capable Preview app as the default PDF viewer in OS X and prevent the lengthy launch of Acrobat anytime a PDF is opened. This tip will be of less use if you need the full functioned Acrobat version, but for the average person just looking to quickly open pdf docs this can be a significant time saver.
If you want a quick PDF file to use for this tip, you can grab the Apple history book “The Macintosh Way” for free (direct PDF link).

My MAC pc seems to be working slowly - how to speed it back up?

How to speed up my MAC pc?

First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Reset the System Management Controller.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
If you're booting from an aftermarket SSD, see whether there's a firmware update for it.
If you have a MacBook Pro with dual graphics, disable automatic graphics switching in the Energy Saverpreference pane for better performance at the cost of shorter battery life.
Otherwise, take the steps below when you notice the problem.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
Step 2
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

Mac is slow. how to speed up

My Mac (1 yr old) has slowed down. How to speed it up?

First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
Step 1
This diagnostic procedure will query the system log for messages that may indicate a hardware fault. It changes nothing, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator. I've tested them only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, they may not work as described.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'Channel t|GPU D|I/O|nspace-h|n Cause: -' | tail | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Normally the command will produce no output, and the window will be empty. If the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window) has anything in it, stop here and post it — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the TextEdit window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.
Step 2
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Reset the System Management Controller.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
If you're booting from an aftermarket SSD, see whether there's a firmware update for it.
If you have a MacBook Pro with dual graphics, disable automatic graphics switching in the Energy Saverpreference pane for better performance at the cost of shorter battery life.
Step 3
When you notice the problem, launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
Step 4
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

Speeding up preview Rendering in FCP 7

Hi All,
I have been working with a lot of 1080p HD video where I've been applying a bunch of color correction and filters to give the video a "film look" and to buff up some badly white-balanced video.   Most commonly, I've been stacking two tracks of the same video, each with a Color 3-Way filter applied and composited with "overlay" or "add" or some amount of blending. Sometimes there will be one or two other filters applied as well, such as vignette or a gamma correction.
My problem is I've been finding the amount of time needed to render a "preview" of video every time I make a small change to this setup to be a drain on my workflow.   For just 30 seconds or so of video, I must wait several minutes for a preview to render.   I'm taking a lot of coffee breaks and things are progressing very slowly.
By "rendering" I mean renderding those segments of the video that are marked by the orange line- video which plays, albeit very jerkily. I am usually rendering to get a sense of the look of transitions, and the expressons of my subjects' faces at these moments- so I don't like the way the "orange line" preview look. I don't usally get the red line. Some of my blends that don't have color three-way applied are tagged green.
I have a Dual Core 2009 Mac Pro 2.66Ghz tower with 5GB of ram and the video card it came with. I'm using only one monitor. I have FCS 3 and FCP 7.   I have tons of HD space available (200 GB out of 1 TB left on my main drive and a 2 TB scratch drive with about 800 GB used for TimeMachine and the rest partitioned for video. I'm not using it yet, though.)   I usuallly run FCP with little or no other software in the background.   The video source I'm using is HDV 1080p30 (shot at 1440x1080, but 16:9) or 1080p24 (some of my source video came from a second camera.) I have about 6 hours of video that I'm working with now, and have not, therefore, converted it to another format for editing purposes as this would take a long, long time.   I set the render settings to RGB, which doesn't seem to speed things up much.
I'm looking for advice on how to speed up my preview render times (I'm not worried about compressor or QuickTime conversion render times as that can be done in batches overnight).   Should I be choosing a different codec? Should I be rendering and editing at a different resolution (this seems to me to take even longer.) I'd be willing to spend a few hundred dollars for a new video card, if it came to that, but that's obviously my last recourse.   Do I need more RAM?   Are there some settings that I should change? Should I bite the bullet and convert my whole mess 'o video to ProRes 4:2:2 or something of the sort?
Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks for the suggestion of OPT-P.   I forgot about that.
What I've done in the past is make and render a "color test sequence" featuring little clips that I'll commonly use. I then edit the whole darn thing with no compositing at all (leaving a "gap" between tracks for the future compositing) eyballing the changes by looking at my "color test sequence."
The problem with this is, I use color shifts and "film look" tricks a lot in my videos, and it's not always possible to guess what the effect is going to look like short of rendering.   I was hoping to figure out a way of speeding this up.    Moreover, the new Mac Pros are not all that much faster than my current one.
Oh well.

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What type of backup was it? I'm hoping you were using Time Machine or creating a Bootable Clone using Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner. If that is the case then I'd recommend starting over so you can restore all your data, applications, settings etc... You missed your first chance when you turned on the new system and it asked if you had another Mac you wanted to migrate from. You can get a second chance to do this and migrate. Please carefully look over Pondini's Lion Setup Assistant tips beginning where he talks about Second Chance....and make sure you have the proper cable before starting. If your backup EHD has a USB connection that will be fine if it has a FireWIre 400 connection you will a cable like this one from Amazon.
You can find these at your local computer store, Walmart, Radio Shack etc..

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How to speed up my computer? Basic configuration is as below.
Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.5 GHz Processor
Ram: 2GB
HD: 350 GB
Mother Board: Giga Byte
OS: windows XP
I am using Office2007 in my PC. I have enable firewall. Can I disable it? If so, then how to protect my pc from virus attack?

There are a lot of different things you can do to speed up your PC. First off, try to upgrade your ram, You can Google your motherboard model to see how much and what kind it can hold. Or go to www.crucial.com and run the analyzer that scans your system and tells you what kind and how much ram your PC can handle. You can get ram dirt cheap these days especially if you order it online.
Next you should uninstall any unwanted or unused programs, there is a very good uninstaller called Revo uninstaller, it is free. It removes programs and then scans for registry and other left over files from the PC. Or you can just go to control panel---add or remove programs and do it from there. And while your there you can go to add or remove windows components and disable anything that you don't use.
Click start click run the type "msconfig" (without the "") under the startup tab uncheck anything that is not necessary to run at startup. This will make your PC boot faster.
If you go to www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm they have a complete guide to disabling unneeded services on a 32 bit windows XP PC. There are a lot of services that you will never need or do not use. Make sure you click on each service you are thinking about disabling and read what it is first. You don't want to disable anything you need on accident.
I use CCleaner to clean, defrag and compress the registry. There are other free and paid programs out there to tidy up your registry which gets a lot of errors and unnecessary entries in it every time you use your PC.
When you store a files on your PC they get fragmented and this slows your system down. Again there are a lot of free programs to defrag your hard drive. I use Ultimate Defrag. With this program you can place your most used files(windows files etc) on the outer rows of your hard drive (fastest part) and the least used files or archive files on the inner rings. It gives you many options to defrag as well as just simple defrag.
I would keep the firewall on or get a third party one. I don't know what anti virus you use but there are numerous reviews and guides online as to which ones are the fastest and have the lightest footprint. I use Esset, but there are a few good free ones also. If you think you have a problem with a virus or malware download and run superantispyware pr malwarebytes, and use it alongside of your anti virus.
Go to your local bookstore and look at the PC magazines. A lot of them have good tips to make your PC run faster and some come with free CDs that have a lot of freeware/shareware programs on them.
Hope this helps

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