Posted by Spex on 09/23/06 20:00

nobody special wrote:
> I run Motion on a liquid-cooled dual-processor mac tower with a gig of
> ram, and it STILL seems slow. Awesome, but slow. I don't think you
> will ever be truly happy on an imac if your work will be graphics and
> render-intensive. I would go with a tower if i had the choice. Screen
> wise, if you have an external monitor setup, the screen size of the
> imac or tower is not a deal breaker for simple edits where you can
> close unneeded windows and enlarge the workspace as you need to. That
> said, I use two of the second-largest mac montiors side by side for my
> stuff, plus a Tv output monitor.
>
> Be careful the software will run on your new mac: I think maybe the
> newer intel-chipped ones require a revised copy of FCP.
>
FCP is universal.

Motion requires a modern graphics card rather than CPU horse power. Any
intel Mac will run Motion flawlessly assuming FCS 5.1.x is being used.

On a Macbook Pro most SD work is realtime while HD work is near
realtime. A modern iMac is likely to piss all over a Power Mac of last
year because it has a far superior GPU. That's the main determining factor.

Motion is excellent.

Its the bollocks...

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