Paul Campbell
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Gents, thanks for the info. Man, I was so close to pulling the trigger on that Mini.
What minimum system would you guys recommend to someone who’s fairly budget-minded? I just flat out cannot afford a new Mac Pro, as much as I’d love it, but I’m chomping at the bit here to start playing around with AE.
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Ok, that’s funny. I’m getting your point loud and clear!
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No, it is running 10.3.5 actually…but only because it was upgraded from OS 9.
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I was afraid you were going to say that. I just bought an old copy of After Effects that needs OS X to run, and now I’m thinking this machine won’t run OS X because of its processor.
Anyone need a copy of AE 6.5?
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Yeah, I asked him about the card’s software, but he told me he doesn’t recall the card needing any software. He didn’t use it for AE, maybe that’s why. He only used it for Final Cut, so perhaps in this capacity, the card was simply just an accelerator. I’ll find out soon enough! Hey, if it doesn’t work, I’ll just remove it. No biggy!
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Hmmm…I was perusing the machine a couple of nights ago, but don’t recall seeing anything at all relating to “Blue Ice fx”, etc. My friend told me that when he retired this machine, he uninstalled everything (Final Cut, etc). I’ll have to ask him if any Blue Ice software was included.
I’m not too familiar with Macs. If my OSX 10.3 doesn’t support this Blue Ice card, will the computer give me any kind of device error, like the way Windows does in Device Manager?
It’s starting to sound like this Blue Ice card might be too good to be true for this little Mac. I suppose I could just upgrade the RAM and remove the Blue Ice card, and then get started with AE. It just won’t run very fast!
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Kevin, I was checking out the system requirements for AE 6.5 (version 7 is just a little too much for my “new” Mac!), and I’m totally unsure about one of the items:
For the Render Engine: System requirements are the same as application system requirements.
For OpenGL support: Adobe After Effects supported OpenGL card.The render engine part I get, but what’s this OpenGL support? Do I need it?
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Thanks for all of this. After diving into this machine a bit farther, I’ve learned that it also has one of those Blue Ice accelerator cards in it. My friend who passed it along to me said that back in its day, this machine was the bombdiggity. It is running OSX 10.3, and it is the model that has the AGP video slot. Crucial.com tells me that this version can do the full 2GB, so I think I’ll go ahead and order that. With that kind of memory upgrade and that accelerator card, this little guy might do a good job with AE6.5 or so. I just need to make sure it’s the Pro version, like you said.
Thanks again!
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Thanks for that. Time to start my search.
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I should’ve known this was a stock answer. Thanks.