Snow Leopard

DigitalNoir

DigitalNoir

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I thought I might make a thread to see:

A. How many people are updating

and

B. Who ever updates today and edits, report back here to tell us if you can see a noticeable performance boost while editing (especially those of you editing AVCHD natively)
 
I am aware that FCP does not edit AVCHD natively, however others (like myself) may be using Premiere Pro CS4 on their mac to edit AVCHD natively, and with this upgrade I am anxious to hear the performance of some powerful macs like Dual Quad Cores with 8+ gigs of Ram (like my system). I just want to hear from some others if they will be able to see the boost or not.
 
DigitalNoir said:
I thought I might make a thread to see:

A. How many people are updating

and

B. Who ever updates today and edits, report back here to tell us if you can see a noticeable performance boost while editing (especially those of you editing AVCHD natively)
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So you're looking for a Mac, CS4.1 user that's upgrading?... I'll be updating my MBP to Snow Leopard, but i use FCP7 on that system and as we all know there's no support for "native" editing!

I'm waiting till work slows down this winter to upgrade my main systems! :thumbsup:
 
DigitalNoir said:
I am aware that FCP does not edit AVCHD natively, however others (like myself) may be using Premiere Pro CS4 on their mac to edit AVCHD natively, and with this upgrade I am anxious to hear the performance of some powerful macs like Dual Quad Cores with 8+ gigs of Ram (like my system). I just want to hear from some others if they will be able to see the boost or not.
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Thats cool. You should have maybe mentioned that in your initial post as its my guess that 99% of mac users here are running fcp.
 
DigitalNoir said:
I am aware that FCP does not edit AVCHD natively, however others (like myself) may be using Premiere Pro CS4 on their mac to edit AVCHD natively, and with this upgrade I am anxious to hear the performance of some powerful macs like Dual Quad Cores with 8+ gigs of Ram (like my system). I just want to hear from some others if they will be able to see the boost or not.
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I don't think you will notice a significant performance boost with CS4 unless Adobe releases an update which is optimized for 10.6. If Adobe manages to leverage their decoding/rendering engines to make use of grand central and/or OpenCL there might be a chance but in the past Adobe did not seem to care about OS X specific technologies and rather went with the least common denominator between Windows and OS X.
 
Upgraded. Waiting for the disks to arrive. If the new OS is more reliable and runs even a little bit faster/smoother.. I'll be happy with my 29 dollars spent
 
Oh well. 5 bucks. I upgraded last night but have not had a chance to do any editing or much else. I did however play with the new quicktime. I love the way it looks now and its cool to have built in screen video capture.
 
Yeah, the new quick time is definitely slick looking.

Overall, i think my system is running faster...I think? But I haven't really done anything taxing on it yet...
 
It stalled during my install on 'one minute left' for several hours, so when I restarted, it was installed, but it had erased part of my files. All the applications are in place, but a few project files and movies on the main drive are gone. Luckily it was a pretty new computer with most things backed up.

I got a family pack, but am scared to do more installs until I hear other experiences.
 
Well, reading your post made me realize that it erased everything on my second drive I was using as a scratch drive... Fortunately there really wasn't anything i needed on that drive so I just reformatted it. But it did take me two attempts to install Snow Leopard...
 
My friend in England just installed it yesterday on a 1-year old iMac and apparently his machine doesn't boot anymore. He has loads of programs, etc installed on it so perhaps that's the cause. Anyway, he's salvaging files off via the command line and reformatting his drive.

Always a good idea to have a backup.
 
No idea, their website even has a whole section that talks about how incredibly stable they've supposedly made the installation process, for instance - proper recovery from a power outage mid-install.

My other friend installed it just fine. Take a backup if you can first, and consider holding out for a week or so to see if any widespread problems surface. I'm sure with any new OS you're going to see reports of people's machines suffering from it, so just hope for the best, yeah?
 
I was actually on the phone with Apple support this afternoon when my first attempt at installing went awry. They said that while installing it keeps a copy of the old OS on the system so incase things do go wrong you can just boot back up into the old OS, however as I said before, my second drive was wiped completely clean... So the moral of the story is to practice redundancy and back up whatever files you would be afraid of losing...
 
Installed Friday and it working great. Offloading P2 cards with no problems and Final Cut Pro is working fine as well.

I use Time Machine so I guess if I would have had a problem I could always boot the old OS and restore via Time Machine.
 
Kevin:

You're not using time machine to install the pro apps, are you?

We've seen a bunch of problems with that procedure.
 
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