Hello All,
To start, I'll say that I'm a YouTuber and have been creating video content for my channel since 2013 using one of two iMacs. I started with a late 2011 i5 model, and moved to a late 2015 i7 model, which has 32GB of RAM and a 4TB Samsung SSD (replaced original hybrid drive after the Seagate took a dump (like ALL Seagates eventually do)), and the dual Radeon 395M GPU's.
In previous years, exporting video was a breeze and usually took between 30 minutes, and in some cases up to 1 hour. I generally create about 1 hour of gameplay footage per video. Ever sincel the OSX update, and I can't remember offhand if it was the 2020 update or the 2021 update, iMovie has been SLOW. It might take me an hour and 30 minutes to render out the same 1 hour videos that I used to output in less time.
So I began to look at CPU or GPU usage, and it looks like I'm only using anywhere from 20% to sometimes 50% of my CPU, and I can't figure out a way to monitor my GPU usage.
Now I'm pretty much a chard when it comes to Mac stuff. I bought them for the ease of using Photoshop 10+ years ago, and I really enjoy the iMovie experience over simple editors on PC. I'd really like to stick with iMovie, but upgrading to a new iMac is just ridiculous. It would cost me in the range of $6,500 to build a close to top-end Mac Studio (since I want a 27" screen and not the smaller iMac screen that is ONLY available now).
I just want to know if there is some way to make iMovie use the full capabilities of my CPU and/or GPU like it originally did?
Alternatively, I could use FCPX, which I do own, but don't use very often because of the increased complexity.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
To start, I'll say that I'm a YouTuber and have been creating video content for my channel since 2013 using one of two iMacs. I started with a late 2011 i5 model, and moved to a late 2015 i7 model, which has 32GB of RAM and a 4TB Samsung SSD (replaced original hybrid drive after the Seagate took a dump (like ALL Seagates eventually do)), and the dual Radeon 395M GPU's.
In previous years, exporting video was a breeze and usually took between 30 minutes, and in some cases up to 1 hour. I generally create about 1 hour of gameplay footage per video. Ever sincel the OSX update, and I can't remember offhand if it was the 2020 update or the 2021 update, iMovie has been SLOW. It might take me an hour and 30 minutes to render out the same 1 hour videos that I used to output in less time.
So I began to look at CPU or GPU usage, and it looks like I'm only using anywhere from 20% to sometimes 50% of my CPU, and I can't figure out a way to monitor my GPU usage.
Now I'm pretty much a chard when it comes to Mac stuff. I bought them for the ease of using Photoshop 10+ years ago, and I really enjoy the iMovie experience over simple editors on PC. I'd really like to stick with iMovie, but upgrading to a new iMac is just ridiculous. It would cost me in the range of $6,500 to build a close to top-end Mac Studio (since I want a 27" screen and not the smaller iMac screen that is ONLY available now).
I just want to know if there is some way to make iMovie use the full capabilities of my CPU and/or GPU like it originally did?
Alternatively, I could use FCPX, which I do own, but don't use very often because of the increased complexity.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
