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how do i render movies faster?
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I need to know what speed improvements I can expect by upgrading my imac 600. I was rendering a 70min. imovie and it took 40 hours. If I upgrade to a g4 1.2 e-mac – imac or a g5 1.6 what improvement will I see.
Imac 600 cdrw w/ 256ram, toast 6 .imovie 3
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how do i render movies faster?
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Originally posted by gromit95:
Hello
I need to know what speed improvements I can expect by upgrading my imac 600. I was rendering a 70min. imovie and it took 40 hours. If I upgrade to a g4 1.2 e-mac – imac or a g5 1.6 what improvement will I see.
Imac 600 cdrw w/ 256ram, toast 6 .imovie 3
Thanks fred
how do i render movies faster?
I'd recommend a PowerMac G4 over an emac/imac, but that's just me 
though anything with Altivec will help considerably for rendering movies.
If money is not an issue, you need a dual 2.0GHz G5 with dual 23" Cinema displays
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To give you a vague, generic idea of what to expect, I own a 800G3 iBook, an 800 G4 iMac and a dual 2.0 G5.
The same 4 minute video project (many, many video tracks) took 45 minutes to render on the iBook (the closest to your machine) 25 minutes to render on the iMac and 2 1/2 minutes to render on the G5.
The G5 rocks. Get what you can afford, don't go into debt.
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Originally posted by AU_student_iceBook:
To give you a vague, generic idea of what to expect, I own a 800G3 iBook, an 800 G4 iMac and a dual 2.0 G5.
The same 4 minute video project (many, many video tracks) took 45 minutes to render on the iBook (the closest to your machine) 25 minutes to render on the iMac and 2 1/2 minutes to render on the G5.
The G5 rocks. Get what you can afford, don't go into debt.
GOOD LORD.
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Originally posted by AU_student_iceBook:
To give you a vague, generic idea of what to expect, I own a 800G3 iBook, an 800 G4 iMac and a dual 2.0 G5.
The same 4 minute video project (many, many video tracks) took 45 minutes to render on the iBook (the closest to your machine) 25 minutes to render on the iMac and 2 1/2 minutes to render on the G5.
The G5 rocks. Get what you can afford, don't go into debt.
I hope you are joking!
F*ck, I can't even have a live play when I adjust a title in FCPro 3 without rendering on my iBook 800.
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Dang.......... Now I need a G5 again! 
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Originally posted by OreoCookie:
I hope you are joking!
F*ck, I can't even have a live play when I adjust a title in FCPro 3 without rendering on my iBook 800.
Yeah, it really is fast, but I am using FCE 2.0 (which is based on FCPro 4).
It has really been tweaked for speed (especially for the G5).
You can have up to five tracks of stuff going on at the same time and not need to render.
Real-time color correction and opacity and almost all of the effects are real time.
Play with it at an apple store and you will see what I mean.
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How much ram does the Dual G5 have?
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Originally posted by val1s:
How much ram does the Dual G5 have?
It comes stock with a wimpy 512mb.
You can put in up to 8GB.
I still have the 512, and can't wait to see the speed increase with more ram.
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Originally posted by AU_student_iceBook:
You can put in up to 8GB.
16GB, actually. The G5s work with 2GB DIMMs.
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Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
16GB, actually. The G5s work with 2GB DIMMs.
I almost posted that spooge GIF. Just almost.
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I have used the Ken Burns effect in iMovie to gauge the relative speed of my three different machines. Here is a brief summary:
iBook (500 Mhz, dual USB, 384 MB) 1
eMac (700 Mhz, 512 MB) 3-4
G5 (1.8 Ghz, single processor, 512 MB) 8-10
It is no doubt that G5 is the way to go for video.
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Originally posted by AU_student_iceBook:
Yeah, it really is fast, but I am using FCE 2.0 (which is based on FCPro 4).
It has really been tweaked for speed (especially for the G5).
You can have up to five tracks of stuff going on at the same time and not need to render.
Real-time color correction and opacity and almost all of the effects are real time.
Play with it at an apple store and you will see what I mean.
Pretty depressing since my machine is ok for almost anything, web, TeX, shell, programming, etc. Then, I wanted to edit some videos ... argh, pretty depressing and frustrating, since I edited the last video on a dual 1 GHz G4.
You know, I just wish my iBook could recode 32 kHz video to 44 kHz on the fly and add a flimsy title. Yeah well, that's what my next computer a Powerbook G5 will be for ...
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