Warp Stabilizing and Multiprocessing : Mac OS X 12 Core ?
Has anyone come up with decent performance for warp stabilizing?
The Activity Monitor shows poor performance during the processing.
One Thread ( A Half Core ) is busy .. and 5 other multiprocessing threads are somewhat active.
The other 18 Threads are practically doing nothing.
For such a important and processor intensive effect .. I would have thought of better performance .. especially on my New 12 Core Mac Pro.
Any tips?
I have tried "After Effect Multiprocessing" and it doesn't seem to do much.
That is horrible!
The whole reason I bought the fastest machine possible was to render stabilization on hours of video.
This is a huge disappointment.
I guess I may as well have purchased a single core or dual core processor.
Fooled.
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I am feeling so ripped off right now. I have wanted a Mac for years and believed the hype about it's stability and I have had more trouble with this Imac 2011 than I have ever had with a pc. It locks up with several software products from APP store. I have already had to have a technician to look at it and really couldn't figure out what the deal was. I was told that the APP store software should give me no problems but the truth is that it locks up on the software. This machine is only 4 weeks old and I am using 37 g on a 1 T hard drive. There is no reason for it to be locking up. Also, when I try to use the help program, it always tells me that I am not connected to the internet even though I have used both the mail program and the browser with no problem just before that. I successfully used the help program on my pc lots of times. I did not need a $2000. plus machine to just get email. I just wanted to unload on somebody that might understand my pain and after checking out this site...I think there is a few of you out there.
I was told that the APP store software should give me no problems but the truth is that it locks up on the software.
The apps downloaded from the Mac App Store are written by third party developers, not Apple. If you have problems with those apps you need to visit the support area for their websites. Launch the App Store, locate the app name. You should see a support link.
when I try to use the help program, it always tells me that I am not connected to the internet even though I have used both the mail program and the browser with no problem just before that
Go to ~/Library/Preferences. Move the com.apple.helpviewer.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Trash. Restart your Mac, try the Help menu.
If you need help finding that file, hold down the Finder icon in the Dock then click: New Finder Window. From the menu bar top of your screen click: Go > Go to Folder. Type this in exactly as you see it here: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.helpviewer.plist That will take you right to that file.
(.plist) files stores information about a particular app or in this case, the Help viewer. Often times deleting the .plist file resolves the issue.
It's fine to "unload"... we understand that you expect your iMac to be stable but there are times when things go awry. That's why we have these forums so that you can you get help.
You may want to read up on how to repair the disk if necessary or reintsall Lion > OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery
Apple - Find Out How - Mac Basics
How to "switch" from PC to Mac > Apple - Support - Switch 101
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AE project crashes on startup - due to Warp Stabilizer and Highlight/Shadow
I've got a head scratcher here...
Firstly, I have been working on this project file for several days with no problems. Everything was running smoothly... working, tweaking, rendering... all successful.
A couple days after doing a final render, I went to re-open the project and got these two errors, followed by AE crashing:
To the best of my knowledge, I changed nothing on my system.
I've tried removing my 3rd parth plugins (Video Copilot Optical Flares, Element, etc...) but to no avail. The program still crashes when opening this file.
I've since installed the updates to AE CS 6, but still no luck.
Removing Warp Stabilizer and Shadow/Highlight allow me to open this project file (obviously telling me that its missing both).
I've tested out both plug-ins in a different file, and I'm able to open those no problem.
I'm running this on a Mac Book Pro running OSX 10.6.8
Model Name:
MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:
MacBookPro8,2
Processor Name:
Intel Core i7
Processor Speed:
2.2 GHz
Number of Processors:
1
Total Number of Cores:
4
L2 Cache (per Core):
256 KB
L3 Cache:
6 MB
Memory:
8 GB
AMD Radeon HD 6750M:
Chipset Model:
AMD Radeon HD 6750M
Type:
GPU
Bus:
PCIe
PCIe Lane Width:
x8
VRAM (Total):
1024 MB
Vendor:
ATI (0x1002)
Device ID:
0x6741
Revision ID:
0x0000
ROM Revision:
113-C0170L-573
gMux Version:
1.9.23
EFI Driver Version:
01.00.573
Any thoughts???We've isolated the bug that is causing this behavior. It seems to only affect instances of the Shadow/Highlight effect on an adjustment layer over layer(s) with the Warp Stabilizer.
There are a couple of workarounds:
- One is to remove the Shadow/Highlight plug-in from the plug-ins folder and then open the project (and then fix the project to not have this effect on an adjustment layer over a Warp Stabilizer instance).
- Another is to precompose the layer(s) with the Warp Stabilizer effect.
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For Superior Stability and Responsiveness: Use Spaces for Every App as Much as Possible
Hi. It's great to share this experiement. It's Hard to Crash Mountain Lion OS X with Spaces or even bring out the spinning wheel.
Any OS (it's good to have Windows, OS X and Linux all at the same time, best of all worlds) should probably be stable if each app was on a separate desktop environment or separate account (with the main one logged in, in the background). The permission were repaired (it crashed the last time I tried this with just one Spaces) using Disk Utility in Mountain Lion's Recovery partition.
Testing the overall stability and responsiveness: more than 12 app including Cinebench 12, Winclone, 2 3D Games from App Store (not Crysis or Rage but helps stress things along with Cinebench), all default Mountain Lion apps except Time Machine launched in one windows , Winclone cloning BootCamp a Win8 (upgraded from Win7) for hours, playing two 3D games (shooter Uberstrike and Marble World, fulscreen windowed) from App Store, Carbon Copy Cloner, watching a fullscreen movie on VLC, Activity monitor and iStats to see how the temperatures, CPU, GPU and memory are doing), quicktime playing a catholic chant in a loop- anything to bring the Mac, the whole system to a crawl, spinning wheel of death or to a crash which it didn't. Launching and relaunching app on their on Spaces was responsive even with all the system taxed at almost 100%.
There was around 12 Spaces running at the same time on the iMac i7 with 8GB. It's not the most convenient way to switch between apps (having everying in one Spaces and clicking on it still the best, followed by swithing via Dock), the gestures and mission control significantly made it easier to have so many Spaces and not that much of a burden to manage when you get used to it. It's much better than Windows 8 implementation for a less cluttered environment. The command-tab is good to combine with Mission Control gestures for switching from fullscreen apps.
.All that while running Cinebench 11.5 which taxes the CPU at almost and GPU 100% but surprisingly the fps shooter and Marble Worlds 3D games didn't crawl as I expected.Having an ambient temperature of about 30 Celsius, with full load the CPU temp was at 66, GPU was at 88, fans where surprisingly at CPU and optical disk fans were only at 900+ rpm with hardisk at 1000+ rpm which is the only 'side effect' to having taxing the system like this (I still have Applecare and Time Machine backup for a worry free test) is it confuses the SMC because without load all fans were at 1000+ rpm (I brough it back to normal with a SMC reset). All these for hours and there's still 1GB memory to use out of the 8GB (with 100GB hardisk space).
When I closed all 11 Spaces and brought all the apps to just one desktop, it wasn't as stable nor as responsive like I have experienced before. Marble World when you switch to it, would have artifacts, the game was almost a slide show. If you have lots of clips to copy past from on the Desktop and you have to hide all to see the finder and then Show All, Carbon Cloner would not show up right away and would have that spinning wheel. I quitted all the apps to prevent a crash and to bring temperatures down.
At first the Mountain Lion was almost a regret with some crashes but with Spaces, Misson Control and gestures for Mission Control, It's bring out the value and it just incredibly stable and responsive (Linux have their multiple desktop environment but Apple's implementation makes you see everything like a map almost bringing the convenience of just one desktop with all the apps placed strategically so you can click and switch to it faster). It's a great way to do a lot of things when you need to without worrying about slowing things down to a crawl.
Thank you for your time.
God bless.Hi. It's great to share this experiement. It's Hard to Crash Mountain Lion OS X with Spaces or even bring out the spinning wheel.
Any OS (it's good to have Windows, OS X and Linux all at the same time, best of all worlds) should probably be stable if each app was on a separate desktop environment or separate account (with the main one logged in, in the background). The permission were repaired (it crashed the last time I tried this with just one Spaces) using Disk Utility in Mountain Lion's Recovery partition.
Testing the overall stability and responsiveness: more than 12 app including Cinebench 12, Winclone, 2 3D Games from App Store (not Crysis or Rage but helps stress things along with Cinebench), all default Mountain Lion apps except Time Machine launched in one windows , Winclone cloning BootCamp a Win8 (upgraded from Win7) for hours, playing two 3D games (shooter Uberstrike and Marble World, fulscreen windowed) from App Store, Carbon Copy Cloner, watching a fullscreen movie on VLC, Activity monitor and iStats to see how the temperatures, CPU, GPU and memory are doing), quicktime playing a catholic chant in a loop- anything to bring the Mac, the whole system to a crawl, spinning wheel of death or to a crash which it didn't. Launching and relaunching app on their on Spaces was responsive even with all the system taxed at almost 100%.
There was around 12 Spaces running at the same time on the iMac i7 with 8GB. It's not the most convenient way to switch between apps (having everying in one Spaces and clicking on it still the best, followed by swithing via Dock), the gestures and mission control significantly made it easier to have so many Spaces and not that much of a burden to manage when you get used to it. It's much better than Windows 8 implementation for a less cluttered environment. The command-tab is good to combine with Mission Control gestures for switching from fullscreen apps.
.All that while running Cinebench 11.5 which taxes the CPU at almost and GPU 100% but surprisingly the fps shooter and Marble Worlds 3D games didn't crawl as I expected.Having an ambient temperature of about 30 Celsius, with full load the CPU temp was at 66, GPU was at 88, fans where surprisingly at CPU and optical disk fans were only at 900+ rpm with hardisk at 1000+ rpm which is the only 'side effect' to having taxing the system like this (I still have Applecare and Time Machine backup for a worry free test) is it confuses the SMC because without load all fans were at 1000+ rpm (I brough it back to normal with a SMC reset). All these for hours and there's still 1GB memory to use out of the 8GB (with 100GB hardisk space).
When I closed all 11 Spaces and brought all the apps to just one desktop, it wasn't as stable nor as responsive like I have experienced before. Marble World when you switch to it, would have artifacts, the game was almost a slide show. If you have lots of clips to copy past from on the Desktop and you have to hide all to see the finder and then Show All, Carbon Cloner would not show up right away and would have that spinning wheel. I quitted all the apps to prevent a crash and to bring temperatures down.
At first the Mountain Lion was almost a regret with some crashes but with Spaces, Misson Control and gestures for Mission Control, It's bring out the value and it just incredibly stable and responsive (Linux have their multiple desktop environment but Apple's implementation makes you see everything like a map almost bringing the convenience of just one desktop with all the apps placed strategically so you can click and switch to it faster). It's a great way to do a lot of things when you need to without worrying about slowing things down to a crawl.
Thank you for your time.
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How to connect my 60gb IPOD and my Mac Mini
I have my trusty 60GB ipod (no video), with the older wide connector and the funny USB or whatever it is symbol looks like a "Y".
Nice grammer huh.
ANyway the cable I have doesn't plug in to my mac mini or MBP.
What cable do I use to hook 'er up to ITUNES on either system?Open Quicktime Player
File Menu: New Audio Recording....
However... if the headphone/microphone combination has two 3.5mm jack plugs (pink and green) then the microphone output (pink) is "mic.level" - which is TOO QUIET for the audio input on a Mac, which is expecting the much stronger "line.level" signal strength.
Solutions: get a microphone pre-amplifier between the mic and the Mac (not cheap); or a different microphone with a USB interface. -
Is there a way that iTunes can act as a Radio Alarm Clock?
I have found the radio station I enjoy listening to in the iTunes Radio List. Is there anyway iTunes (and my Mac) can be set to come-on from Sleep mode and start playing that Radio Station at specific times of the day?
Any App or plug-in that does that?
Many thanks
KevinTurning your Mac into a clock radio.
1. In iTunes create a playlist that contains just the radio station you want to wake up to.
2. Export the playlist (as .m3u works well). Get Info on your playlist file and look at the Open With entry to make sure it points to iTunes, VLC or some other app that will stream your station.
3. In iCal create an event entry at the time you want to wake up.
4. Right (or Control) click on your wakeup event and select Get Info.
5. For "alarm" select Open File.
6. Now under Open File there will be a place to add the file to open. It will probably be some default entry (like iCal). Click on it will allow you to select "other." Then use the file dialog to select your playlist file.
Your Mac will wake you up at the appointed time. You don't need to keep iCal running. If you want to put you Mac to sleep for the night then there is one more thing you need to do. Open System Preferences to Energy Saver and click on the Schedule button. Check Start up or wake and set the wake up time to slightly before your iCal alarm time.
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Cannot send email on ipad? But ok on iphone and on mac
Having trouble sending and forwarding emails on my ipad they are fine on
my iphone and my mac have checked settings they seem to be the sae . Most puxxled any ideas?edHi there,
I would recommend taking a look at the troubleshooting steps found in the article below.
iOS: Unable to send or receive email
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3899
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How do i use my iMac and the macs wired internet connection to share the internet with my iPod and iPhone. For 6months I had set up a network that shared the internet through bluetooth to my iPod 5th gen but i messed it up when i tried to add my iPhone 5s and i can't remember how to do it.
The following has instructions: OS X Mavericks: Share your Internet connection
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Jabber and AIM/.Mac contacts in ONE window
I would like to have a single iChat window that combines the Jabber and AIM/.Mac buddies. That way I can log on to AIM directly from iChat (and use video/audio) and also be able to log on to google chat MSN via jabber gateways. I hate having two different windows for each buddy list.
I there a way of doing this with Leopard's iChat?Hi,
I use several including GoogleTalk.
It is not about whether the server can do Audio or Video as Most Jabber Servers can not
iChat invokes it's A/V protocols whichever Buddy list it is in which do not use the same ports as any of the Buddy List's logins.
The A/V side is independent of the Text based side.
I have found that the Green icons show up.
This seems independent of whether the Jabber Server supports it.
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I recently bought a new macbook pro and set it up using the migration assistant from my mac mini. I can't get the text message forwarding feature to work with both computers. It keeps saying that I only have 2 devices setup, my iPad and my macbook pro. When I mess with the setting on my mac mini, it goes from saying that that is one of the devices to my macbook pro being the 2nd device. I think that something happened as a result of my using the migration assistant and now it thinks that my macbook pro and my mac mini are one and the same computer. Any ideas?
Thanks, Sig.
The old computer is a 2.6 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
The new one is a 2.3 GHz intel core i7
In going over this, thanks to "tallking it out" with you, I did discover the Text Edit problem. Because I've still been unable to get the new computer text size (fonts or whatever) to match the old computer, I did not notice that the curser is now different--the line midway down the curser has to be placed on the line I am working upon, otherwise the edits go elsewhere on the page. Now, with a bit of difficulty, I am able to get Text Edit to work correctly.
If you have any ideas as to why my menu bar and Text Edit type are still so slow, I'd love to have them.
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Which Mac Pro? More cores=slower speeds? And most of us know the speed matters or FPU for music and I don't understand the faster is for the least amount of procs. And while I get the whole rendering thing and why it makes sense.
The above is what the bar says. It's been a while and wondered, maybe Apple changed the format for forums. Then got this nice big blank canvas to air my concerns. Went to school for Computer Science, BSEE, even worked at Analog Devices in Newton Massachusetts, where they make something for apple.
The bottom line is fast CPU = more FPU = more headroom and still can't figure out why the more cores= the slower it gets unless it's to get us in to a 6 core then come out with faster cores down the road or a newer Mac that uses the GPU. Also. Few. I'm the guy who said a few years ago Mac has an FCP that looks like iMovie on Steroids. Having said that I called the campus one day to ask them something and while I used to work for Apple, I think she thought I still did as she asked me, "HOW ARE THE 32 CORES/1DYE COMING ALONG? Not wanting to embarrass her I said fine, fine and then hung up. Makes the most sense as I never quite got the 2,6,12 cores when for years everything from memory to CPU's have been, in sets of 2 to the 2nd power. 2,4,8,16,32,64,120,256,512, 1024, 2048,4196,8192, 72,768. Wow. W-O-W and will be using whatever I get with Apollo Quad.
Peace to all and hope someone can point us in THE RIGHT DIRECTION. THANK YOUThanks for your reply via email/msg. He wrote:
If you are interested in the actual design data for the Xeon processor, go to the Intel site and the actual CPU part numbers are:
Xeon 4 core - E5.1620v2
Xeon 6 core - E5.1650v2
Xeon 8 core - E5.1680v2
Xeon 12 core - E5.2697v2
I read that the CPU is easy to swap out but am sure something goes wrong at a certain point - even if solderedon they make material to absorb the solder, making your work area VERY clean.
My Question now is this, get an 8 core, then replace with 2 3.7 QUAD CHIPS, what would happen?
I also noticed that the 8 core Mac Pro is 3.0 when in fact they do have a 3.4 8 core chip, so 2 =16? Or if correct, wouldn't you be able to replace a QUAD CHIP WITH THAT? I;M SURE THEY ARE UO TO SOMETHING AS 1) WE HAVE SEEN NO AUDIO FPU OR PERHAPS I SHOULD CHECK OUT PC MAKERS WINDOWS machines for Sisoft Sandra "B-E-N-C-H-M-A-R-K-S" -
SOMETHINGS UP AND AM SURE WE'LL ALL BE PLEASED, AS the mac pro was announced Last year, barely made the December mark, then pushed to January, then February and now April.
Would rather wait and have it done correct than released to early only to have it benchmarked in audio and found to be slower in a few areas- - - the logical part of my brain is wondering what else I would have to swap out as I am sure it would run, and fine for a while, then, poof....
PEACE===AM SURE APPLE WILL BLOW US AWAY - they have to figure out how to increase the power for 150 watts or make the GPU work which in regard to FPU, I thought was NVIDIA? -
I currently use an iPhone, an iPad, and a Mac computer for business. The three devices have Contacts Managers that sync with each other through both Google and through Mobile Me. Currently, this has created a mess of duplicate contacts. Please advise me on the steps necessary for removing these duplicates and establishing a syncing solution that doesn't regenerate the duplicates. There are several applications available that remove duplicates, but I am not sure which ones work or don't work. I want information on this, but most importantly I want to understand how to fix this problem permanently. Also, I read somewhere that Mac's new operating system, Lion, can help deal with duplicates. I don't have Lion, but I would be willing to get it, if this would fix the problem.
Had the same problem with 4 devices (two computers, an iPhone and an iPod). The solution is simple: open the Address Book application in your mac, ask it to locate duplicate entries (under one of the top menu items, "edit" I think), and then ask it to consolidate them: it took me all of three seconds after I figured it out: worked like a charm! PS: if you have more than one mac with unconected Address Books, repeating the operation in the second one may be a good idea.
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I am trying to install an update for my macbook pro retina display and my mac wont restart because it says my mail is still open but when i try and open my mail, it wont let me. I think it crashed. Help?
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You can get the latest version of Firefox 3.6 from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
You can trash Firefox 4.0 then re-install Firefox 3.6, it will use your existing bookmarks, passwords etc
Mozilla are working to prevent Mac users with non-compatible systems from getting the notification about Firefox 4, and also not displaying the "Download Firefox 4" button on http://www.mozilla.com -
I have a Mac Pro using OSX 10.7.4. When using apple mail I click on the address icon to obtain email address and nothing happens. I've restarted both the application and the Mac but still won't open address book. Any ideas please.
Assuming you have these accounts set up in Mail, open preferences and under Accounts tab, edit the SMTP outgoing server list. Do you have a .mac address in the list? If so, delete it.
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