G5 Dual or Quad

[David Bogie]

None of the above.

Wait till the new Intel Macintoshes ship.

If you must buy a machine now, find the cheapest used G4 or G5.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Jerry Hofmann]

The Quad would render significantly faster would be the big difference. Probably in the regions of 50% faster… I’ll bet barefeats.com has some speed tests… Apple could support these quads longer than the duals down the line.

I’m not sure I’d be the first on my block to be running a new intel mac in mission critical environment. Intel macs will be the future, but they don’t exist just yet. FCP 5.0.4 running in Tiger is a rocking thing on a quad.

Jerry

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Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D

[Matthew Brunn]

I have a Quad and if AE and compressing for DVD are your thing then it is worth it.

[Robert Broussard]

[Jerry Hofmann] “Tiger is a rocking thing on a quad.”

Jerry, what video card do you recommend with the QUAD for running FC Studio and Adobe Photoshop and AE.

Some people are going with the 7800 GT cards while some are hoping that a better card will become available in a few months that will be much better than the 7800… Thoughts?

I know this makes little difference for FCP; yet, is more affected by Motion and future Apple products…

Thanks,

RObert

[Jan Bliddal]

People upgrading their After Effect or Combusiton will also benefit from a fast GPU. Adobe and Descreet has upgraded those programs Open GL part and thus the benifit of a fast GPU.

Let the machine work for you. Not you for the machine

[Jan Bliddal]

Hi Matt when working in DVD Studio Pro can you leave encode in background on? Gooing through Martin Sitter from macprovideo and the official DVD Studion Pro 4 macprovideo Training guide he told about the ability of having DVD studio pro building the Project as you worked on it. Martin however told that he didn

[Jerry Hofmann]

I’d go with the 7800 for now… it’s not as fast as the next step up (the Quadro), but it’s close, and it’s a LOT less expensive.

Jerry

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[Jerry Hofmann]

Jan, I encoded often in the BKG with my dual 2.0 machine, and in no way does it seem like it’s slowing down the computer…

Jerry

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[David Bogie]

Easy to give advice when it’s not our money. Many of us started out with machines that took weekends to render a few minutes of video so I have no sympathy for today’s perceived need for speed. It’s all relative. If you want realtime, you must buy hardware that satisfies your needs. If you are thinking of buying a Kona card, talk to Kona about their system recommendations and don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t have Kona.

You made no mention at all of what kind of work you’ll be doing or how you’re going to support this video habit of yours. Your accountant needs to be part of this discussion as much as anyone else. I still say investing in anything other than the next generation of Macintosh is a dead end deal. Hang your Kona on a used G4 or G5 and wait to see how you like being in this business.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Alan Okey]

[Jan Bliddal] “People upgrading their After Effect or Combusiton will also benefit from a fast GPU. Adobe and Descreet has upgraded those programs Open GL part and thus the benifit of a fast GPU.”

Combustion only uses OpenGL hardware for accelerating composite previews. Final rendering is still CPU-bound, as only software OpenGL rendering supports all compositing modes and features.