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  video card and Motion3

  Posted by Kim Rowley on January 11, 2008 at 12:07 pm

  I’m about to be between editing jobs and am finally ready to upgrade to FCP Studio2 with Motion3. My video card – ATI Radeon 9650 – I realize is at the lowest end of the system specs. I do not do a ton of graphics or plan on heavy duty 3D in the near future. If I do simple slates, lower thirds, some simple animation or graphics using pre built templates am I still setting myself up for a rough ride? I have 4GB’s of RAM.
  Thanks for anyone’s experience or advice.

  Dual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.1.2, OS X10.4.8

  Kim Rowley replied 18 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Gabriele De simone

  January 16, 2008 at 7:37 pm

  The ATI Radeon 9650 isn’t fast by today’s standards, but if I’m not mistaken it comes with 256MB of VRAM and that should let you work with HD-sized frames at 8-bit fairly well.

  If you’re planning to use built-in or third-party plug-ins based on FxPlug, keep in mind that you may get an error message that says “failed to render at the current size, etc…” when working with HD-sized frames.
  If that ever happens, switch your Sequence Settings > Video Processing option to “Render in 8-bit YUV” and you should be able to render fine.

  AFAIK, the only Sequence presets that comes with high-precision rendering enabled by default are the (new) ProRes presets.

  Hope this helps,
  Gabe
  Noise Industries, LLC
  https://www.noiseindustries.com
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  Kim Rowley

  January 17, 2008 at 8:56 am

  Thanks for the heads up Gabe.
  So far everything is working fine but I’ll keep that in mind. I know that was already the case for my Sugar plug-ins.
  Cheers, kim

  Dual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP Studio 2 (6.02), OS X10.4.11

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