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slightly OT: Combustion 3 & Boris Red 3 okay on a Quad or dual core?
Sorry to ask this here, but I’ve searched around a lot, posted on their respective forums, but still haven’t found an answer. Red actually uses open GL acceleration and I was hoping the 7800 GT video card I was going to buy would speed it along. But the whole PCIe thing and how FCP 4.5 and Motion 1 need a hack to work with them has me scared. Basically I don’t want to have to buy the updates now just to run these programs on this G5.
So, does anyone know if these programs are okay for use on a Quad or dual core G5? Thanks ahead of time for any help! -
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They will never run on a dual core don’t think.
The hack isn’t the way to go though, a $199 upgrade to the studio is however. Apple’s taking orders…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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Jerry, thanks for the response. Just wondering though, how come you’re so sure?
About the updates, well Studio would be $199 and I’ll either do that or wait and get FCP6 or whatever it’ll be called. But Red and Combustion are academic versions so I don’t think I can even upgrade them.
So things could get quite pricey if Red 3 and C3 won’t work on a PCIe G5. Any thoughts? -
Don’t know about the upgrade paths for academic versions of Boris and Combustion… but you can bet there will be updates so they’ll work on the next gen macs… At least the next gen software will..
contact Boris and Discreet about it I’d think…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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Thanks, Jerry. The problem is contacting these people is a mess. Sent a tech support email to Boris on tuesday and called and left a message. Didn’t heard back. Called again on friday and spoke with sales, perhaps they’ll care more if they don’t know they already have some of my money. Hopefully they’ll get back to me soon, but the sales guy was going to have to talk to tech b/c he had no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned the new G5s. Their software’s not bad, but I honestly don’t understand how that company stays in business. After all this, contacting Combustion didn’t seem too inviting.
I just thought these have to be programs that people who use FCP have and surely some one here uses one of them and a dual core or Quad G5. It would be so much easier b/c working with the system is as slow, awful, and inefficient as you would expect. -
Did you send your questions to support *at* borisfx.com ?
It did take a few days to get into the que, but once I was assigned a real person, he was very helpful and right on top of things until my problem was solved.
…okay not really solved, but that’s not his issue. Long story, doesn’t matter.
debe
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Actually, I filled out their whole tech support thingy that made me give my name, serial #, etc. That was a week ago and still no word. Thanks for the suggestion though, I may just try support at boris…
The thing that gets me is that it seems to me what I’m asking is something a salesman should be able to answer off the top of his head. Red 3GL is actually their current version (thought that I saw that v3.5 had come out, but apparently it was my imagination). So basically I’m asking if their flagship product will run on the latest Mac workstation. This has to have come up before now.
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