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Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
I’m getting a program upgrade for my Apple at work. In the past it never worked too well. On the Windows NT system, the place of employment I worked at would not purchase an Open GL card for some reason. Then we got an Apple and the Combustion upgrade for it. Open GL was a confusing thing for some people to understand at the place we got the Apple from. We’re getting another Apple upgrade and another upgrade of Combustion.
Open GL is still on the list as a piece of hardware that’s needed to make the program work correctly. Can somebody help me with some info. , or a way to explain to the higher ups where I work that I need to get an Open GL card this time for the program to be worth anything? Or does the newewst G5s already cover all issues? I don’t have the upgrade sheet with me right now, but when I look at it again I’ll show what graphics card we’re getting for the system.
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G5 is ancient history. Your new mac should be based on Intel CPUs. The card buses in the Intels vary, be sure you know exactly which model you have when talking to a supplier.
Nvidia 3870 is the card of choice for most of us. I don’t know if it’s OpenGL-capable since that’s not a factor for Motion or After Effects. I’d be talking to the makers of the program you are upgrading. if they don’t know, no one does.
OpenGL remains a sad and sick joke on the Macintosh. More weirdness, Snow Leopard and the next generation of Intel chips are rumored to support a new graphics architecture called OpenCL.
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https://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb405948&sliceId=1
> 1. Make sure that the system meets the minimum requirements for After Effects.
Refer to “Graphics Acceleration (GPU) support in Adobe CS4 applications” (TechNote kb405445) for a list of supported GPU chipsets.
After Effects may not run correctly on a system that doesn’t meet the following requirements:
Mac OS:
Multicore Intel® processor
Mac OS X v10.4.11-10.5.4
2GB of RAM (more RAM recommended when running multiple components)
20.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
1,280×900 display with OpenGL 2.0-compatible graphics card
Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
Dedicated 7200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred
Core Audio-compatible sound card
QuickTime 7.4.5 software required to use QuickTime features< This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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