Bryan Banks
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have you tried splicing the large photo into tiles and then arranging them inside Motion and doing each of the moves with the camera inside Motion?
-Bryan
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Where in activity monitor is it showing you that FCP is using 8 cores… specifically what values are you getting?
I have 16GB of RAM in my Mac Pro. I run Motion all the time. Motion is greatly GPU dependent so that tends to be where the slowdown occurs.
-Bryan
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Motion is not written to utilize more than two cores. Final Cut isn’t either. Basically the only thing in FCS that can use all 8 cores is Compressor (once you create a virtual cluster).
-Bryan
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You need to buy a capture card (like an old Kona card). I don’t know which models will work with a g4 tower… most cards require a g5/intel mac now.
-Bryan
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You will not be able to capture to the internal drive. It’s not a matter of putting it on a different partition, it’s about separate physical drives. Doing this will drop frames.
Yes, capturing to an eSATA drive through the ExpressCard34 slot in the MBP would work.
-Bryan
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The 640 is very good because it uses 2 high-density platters rather than 3-4 low density platters. This reduces heat and increases speed.
I agree that 1TB drives are the way to go (I suggested the 640 since it was closer to what you were asking about). Of the 1TB drives, I really like the Samsung F1 drive since it also uses high-density platters (I believe it’s the only 3-platter 1TB drive) and you can pick it up for $150.
I have a WD 640 as my system drive and multiple Samsung F1 drives for media in my Mac Pro. Both drives are great.
-Bryan
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internal is faster and cheaper…. in the 500GB range, I’d actually suggest the WD6400AAKS it is a 640GB Western Digital drive and it’s one of the fastest SATA drives you can get (and it still runs fairly cool). It’s $85 at newegg right now.
-Bryan
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get a better graphics card
-Bryan
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Nope, you need to get a mac-specific card from ATi.