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Dan Ac
May 4, 2009 at 5:57 pm in reply to: Can I run Motion with 128 MB of VRAM?

Hi Chris,

I realise I’ve been a bit of a donut suggesting that the 512 card doubled the preview capacity. After increasing the RAM on my MAC Book Pro from 2 to 4 gig, I’ve doubled the capacity of the preview!
I think a larger VRAM allows for more textures to be drawn simultaneously but not longer previews :-(. But then I think the quality and speed of the graphics card are more important than the VRAM capacity alone. Obviously there will be a minimum VRAM capacity that is required but beyond that other factors definitely kick in. Motion eats resources and it’ll be interesting to see what Mac’s new Snow Leopard OS brings to the table in regards to coping with 3d graphics/GPU accelerated programmes. I think I’ve concluded that Motion needs a really good card to make it ‘happen’ and that cheap 512 cards are false economy and only look good on paper and are simply not fast enough to utilise all that VRAM.

Hope it all works out.
Dan Ac
April 28, 2009 at 3:13 pm in reply to: Can I run Motion with 128 MB of VRAM?

Hi,

I was in the Apple Store the other day asking about VRAM for Motion3 and a guy told me that Snow Leopard MIGHT enable RAM to be used for GPU stuff too. With a potential re-write of FCP studio for full 64 bit utilisation it might ease the pain. I’m not a rumour troublemaker or anything like that but it is probably worth waiting to see what Snow Leopard means for us in general 🙂

On another note I compared the MBP 2008/9 Nvidia 256 with the 2008 MBP Nvidia 512 and the Motion 3 RAM render capacity was over double ie 300 frames Vs 120. Same model card too. So 128 might really be struggling.

Dan
Dan Ac
April 21, 2009 at 2:14 pm in reply to: Minimum Spec – Real World Examples please!

Thanks for feedback. Now the only other question is will one be able to upgrade from an upgrade i.e when Final Cut Studio 3 eventually comes out! Mind you, this may be geared towards dual processor imacs and above with all the new codecs that are floating around that demand decent processors…maybe Studio 2 is all that will run on my retired greyhound of a G5…
Dan Ac
April 19, 2009 at 12:35 pm in reply to: Power Mac G5 worth the upgrade?

Hi Heather,

I am about to upgrade to Studio 2 and was wondering how it runs on your machine? I also have a G5 1.6 and am curious to know if it can cope?! FCP 5.1.4 has been solid (although rendering speed is bad compared to dual machines).

How does Pro Res cope? Did you find a decent graphics card upgrade or did the GeForce 5200 survive?

Thanks,

Dan