[Herb Sevush] "Walter you've said this many times in the past and you are way more knowledgeable than I am on the subject, but a lot of my editorial time is spent rendering timelines, cross grading clips, and compressing for both DVD and h264 files, along with using either motion of AE for compositing (which is why I have so much time to post on the Cow.) This seems like a fairly normal workflow to me and unless I'm missing something all of that activity is helped by multiple cores - or isn't it?"
You're stuck with FCP7 for its multicam workflow. FCP7 is very limited in this regard. If you were running FCPX or Pr CS6, you'd be surprised how much faster all this can be (even on the same hardware) and how much more you'd be able to do in real time.
(I did also specifically call out compression as an area where multiple cores help, and I mentioned multi-GPU applications with Resolve in mind.)
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