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  • Can I get away with just viewing on an old G4

    Posted by Roli Rivelino on March 5, 2010 at 1:24 pm

    I am about to do a job and I was wondering if I could use my old G4 laptop with QT pro installed to view my pro res QTs from my FS-100?

    When I hook the FS up to the laptop I can see the files but obviously can’t view them, I don’t want to waste money getting QT pro for the laptop if it’s not going to work.

    many thanks

    aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “The young Newbie, is now a Padawon.”

    System
    Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
    8Gb RAM
    1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
    1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
    Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
    1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

    Equipment
    Panasonic AG-HVX 200
    Firestore FS-100

    Roli Rivelino replied 16 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • John Pale

    March 5, 2010 at 4:54 pm

    Have not tried a G4 but a G5 can barely play ProRes in HD. Even a Mac Mini would be better. The codec is optimized for Intel.

    QTPro has nothing to do with it, by the way. The latest Standard Quicktime has the Pro Res reader built in.

  • Roli Rivelino

    March 5, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    Ah, thought so looks like a hire job for me then.

    many thanks

    aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “The young Newbie, is now a Padawon.”

    System
    Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
    8Gb RAM
    1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
    1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
    Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
    1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

    Equipment
    Panasonic AG-HVX 200
    Firestore FS-100

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