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  Decklink SP with G4 & Tiger OS

  Posted by James Herring — account refuses cow mail on June 6, 2005 at 4:14 am

  Can the Decklink SP work with a Dual 1GHz G4 and OS X Tiger? What would be lost if the SP card is intalled in a non G5 processor setup?

  On the Blackmagic Design site it list the 1.4 GHz as the minimum, but I’ve seen G4s with less power using the SP card.

  Thanks,

  James –

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  James Herring — account refuses cow mail replied 20 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Luke Maslen

  June 6, 2005 at 4:29 am

  Hi James,

  Officially we’re recommending a dual G4/1.25 GHz or faster for use with Tiger and Mac OS X 10.4. The change in requirements is related to our complete switch to the Apple uncompressed codecs. They require something faster than the previously recommended dual G4/800 MHz and the your dual G4/1 GHz might be OK but ours died a while ago so we couldn’t verify that model. Chances are that it will work OK but it will be at the low end of what might work and so that’s why we posted conservative requirements of a dual G4/1.25 GHz or faster.

  If you continue to work with Panther and Final Cut Pro HD v4.5, then your Mac should be fine as this configuration only requires a dual G4/800 MHz.

  Regards,

  Luke Maslen
  Blackmagic Design
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  James Herring — account refuses cow mail

  June 6, 2005 at 5:19 am

  OK.. Thanks Luke.

  I’m working mainly with DV video, and uncompressed video only when rendering animation from Maya. So I assume I should be fine working with the DVCPro Codec in the FCP 5 timeline.

  Take Care,

  James –

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