Specs for a G5 to run Motion

[Videomansf]

If you have no interest in real tim, then anything that apple states will work.

If your expecting Real Time performance with motion, I have found this to be the MINIMUM (motion would like double this). (I have used G5 dual 2.0s and 2.5s with motion 1 and nothing compares to my current 2.7)

Dual 2.7 G5
4GB ram -8GB here-
ATI X800XT or NV 6800 GPU cards -I have a X800XT-
Very fast raid (around 200MB/s) SCSI, Fiber, or SATA -I have a Medea RTRx on atto-
10 bit Uncompressed capture card (decklink, aurora, AJA) -I have a Kona 2 and Io from AJA-
Broadcast monitor.

I can CC and Key UC8bitHD in RT with a lower third or two. Exports take less than playtime. All with the system above, and I am buying a second too. Very impressive numbers.

VM

[Dwaynne]

videomansf –

sounds good to me. i am particularly wary of the video card, since the options apple listed weren’t available thru the system i was configuring on macmall. which delivers better performance – the nvidia or the ati?

[Richard Harrington]

I got the newest ATI

Particulary happy as it allows for 3 PCi cards

a Kona HD card
A firewire card
and a Srial ATI Extrernal card

[Dwaynne]

sweeeeet. What model is that?

[Dave Sullivan]

Hi all,

I’m using a G5 dual 2.5ghz, with 1gig of RAM, (to be upgrade to 4gig on Tuesday) 9800 XT 256mb graphics card.
I’m using Motion 1, and apart from the normal crashes, all appears to work, without any problems. With 4gig of RAM things are bound to work a bit smoother.

Dave

[Richard Harrington]

Radeon 800 XT I beleive

1 ADC
1 DVI (perfect for me)

256mb VRAM

[Dwaynne]

who’d you buy your system from?

[Richard Harrington]

Bought card as an upgrade from Chesapeake Systems in Blatimore

[Dwaynne]

how does the ati 9650xt that comes default with the system hold up? i was reading up some stuff on barefeats.com and it seems horrific.

[Videomansf]

the 9650 is crap. That’s the first thing to through out.