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ideal mac pro set up for motion?
I am currently working for a company trying to develop a heavy-hitting motion graphics team, and am one of the motion artists that is going to be working on the projects…
..what is the best rig for a machine doing a lot of design in illustrator, photoshop, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and Cinema 4D? Mac Pro preferable, as I hate windows machines.
I’ve currently got an earlier model Mac Pro:
2 quad-core (8 core total) 3.0 ghz Xeon
12 gb 66 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
ATY,RadeonX1900 512 mb
3 HDD, 700GB each (NOT on RAID)I keep hitting render crashes, lags, delays, etc. I’d like to build a machine that is tailored specifically to motion graphics and animation.
Any recommendations would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks.
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one thing I’ve noticed with Motion is that it hates dual monitor setups. It uses the video card so extensively that a dual monitor setup dramatically drops it’s performance.
| Jameson Wallace
| Motion Graphics Festival
| New Motion + New Sound + New Code
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For Motion make sure you don’t get the stock graphics card – right now the best card is the ATI Radeon 4870, although 5870 is supposed to be available soon if it isn’t already…and lots of RAM is always a good thing.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
https://www.applemotion.net
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