Upgrading to a Macbook Pro and Turning my iMac into a Hardrive
My old PowerPC iMac G5 is running Final Cut Pro really slow. Rendering about 10 seconds of clip take like 40 to 60 seconds to render. I dont think that is normal because my dad's Powerbook Pro or what the old MacBook Pro, renders faster when my iMac is only a year old while his is 3 years old I think.
Anyways, would it be wise to move to a Macbook Pro 17" because I want a mobile workstation I can take with me to school and such not. I am planning on turning my iMac into a hard drive with my LaCie.
My last question. If I turn my iMac into a external hardrive can I hook up my LaCie into my iMac and then acess it from the MacBook Pro? or will I have to hook the LaCie directly into the MacBook Pro?
Er, wow.
Something is running, that's for sure. Limewire is a type of bittorrent, yes, and would be pulling network activity like that. Try quitting both, so only Activity Monitor is running.
To be honest, its outside the scope of a video editing board to help you trouble shoot your computer (sorry if that seems like a brush-off), but Activity monitor should tell you what you need to know. I'll answer a few more posts though.
Show the Activity Monitor Window, and in the top drop down option, select 'All Processes' and tell me what the top hit is, when sorted by % CPU column, for me, it's Activity Monitor itself, averaging about 5%-10% of my much slower computer than yours. Typical Idle %'s are 85%-99% when not doing anything other than looking at the Activity Monitor.
Talk to who else uses or set up the computer - perhaps they have some background tasks running.
Another alternative is to create a new user, log out of this one, use the new user log in just to edit video, don't do anything else with that user account. Be aware, you can't use the other users files from the new user though.
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The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
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Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a Fusion Drive or a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to start up and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal startup may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually login automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
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