Earlier this week, I timed Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Studio 3 (2009) using identical footage for encodes, transcodes, and Motion RAM previews. The tests were performed on identical Snow Leopard OSX (10.6.2) boot drives, with both application suites and operation systems fully updated. The test results are here, as are the particulars for [...]
Following Rob Morgan’s Final Cut Studio shootout between Compressor 3 and 3.5, and Motion 3 and Motion 4, I decided to test further to determine if I could produce the same results. Rob timed Compressor encodes and Motion RAM previews in Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Pro (2009) using identical footage and a [...]
We’ve completed some extensive testing to evaluate the performance gap between Final Cut Studio 2 and Final Cut Studio 2009 using Compressor/Motion/Final Cut Pro on a mid-2009 MacPro 2.26 GHz Nehalem running Snow Leopard with 12 GB/s of RAM. The surprising results will be posted early this week.
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