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Motion on iMac G5
I am a high school student, and on a low budget; however, I would like to get started doing my video work at home. Right now the best option for me seems to be the new second generation iMac G5 (20″ 2 ghz, 2gb ram) however I want to run Final Cut Studio and I dont know how the Radeon 9600 will fare with Motion 2. I have heard that in M2 they have took less stress off the gpu but how do you think (in all of your proffessional opinions) Motion will fare on the iMac? One option I have been looking into was overclocking the gpu which I know will void my warranty so that is like a last resort kind of thing. I used Motion (not Motion 2) in my local Apple store and it seemed to work decently on the iMac but I didnt really have many layers, particles, etc…So to get to the point, I guess the question is then do you think an iMac G5 (2gb ram, 2ghz procs, 20″ display, Radeon 9600 128 mb) could run Motion decently? As I am not a professional video editor, I do not need the program to run in 30 fps all the time and I know it definitly won’t on the iMac, but I would like to know if the performance will be acceptable with rendering and so on. If you all could all me out that would be fantastic! Thank you!
-Jeff
PS: If you could also give me a heads up the other FCS programs on an iMac that would be really great as well! Thanks again!
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Defintely slower… but acceptable
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” As I am not a professional video editor, I do not need the program to run in 30 fps all the time”
Since it’s a motion graphics appliction and not an editing app, it’s not about playback speed but interactivity. A lot of people seem to get hung up on the FPS performance which cracks me up. Use it like you would use AE or Combustion (only play back when you need to, you’ll still expierance the RT interactivity just making your adjustments while animating) and you should have a ball. As long as you keep that in mind, you should find the iMac plenty fast.
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