[atomico37]

sellling my ibook later this week in exchange i'm going to be purchasing a new emac. 1.25 ghz and 1 gig of ram. is it possible to run motion on a set up such as this? i'm going to buy the video package with motion and final cut and was wondering if i could use these programs on such a cheap system.

i've been told the only thing holding them back would be the 32 meg video card.

anyone else have this set up?

[storer]

I'm sure it could handle it, but I doubt you would be travelling at high speeds.

[Luca Rescigno]

I think it would suck. The video card in the eMac is EVEN SLOWER than the one in the iMac! Amazing!

[Dex13]

Minimum System Requirements


Macintosh computer with 867MHz or faster PowerPC G4 or G5 processor

4X AGP slot

512MB of RAM (2GB or more recommended)

Mac OS X v10.3.5 or later

QuickTime 6.5.1 or later

Display with 1024 x 768 resolution or higher (1280 x 1024 resolution recommended)

One of the following graphics cards:
— ATI Radeon 9800 XT (R360)
— ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (R350)
— ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (R300)
— ATI Radeon 9600 XT (RV360)
— ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (RV350)
— ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (RV M11)
— ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (RV M100
— nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL (NV40)
— nVidia GeForce Go5200 (NV34M)
— nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra (NV34)


10GB of disk space for application, templates and tutorial

DVD drive for installation

Recommended system


Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5

2GB of RAM or more

Mac OS X v10.3.5 or later

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card or better



the 9200 isn't listed ....

[Weezer]

How come the geforce4 ti is left off of all those lists?

[thesearcher]

Originally posted by Weezer:
How come the geforce4 ti is left off of all those lists?

Because it is not supported by CoreVideo?

[Weezer]

Originally posted by thesearcher:
Because it is not supported by CoreVideo?

right, why not? it's a faster GPU than some of those on that list...

[sideus]

The Ti doesn't have the required hardware functions that CoreVideo and CoreImage call for.

[Eriamjh]

Originally posted by Luca Rescigno:
I think it would suck. The video card in the eMac is EVEN SLOWER than the one in the iMac! Amazing!

I think that would make it SLOW Motion (get it? ) Hah!

[Commodus]

As a general rule: if you're looking at Motion, you're looking at one of Apple's current high-end systems (PowerMac or PowerBook) to do it justice. I wouldn't want to run Motion on an eMac even if the requirements said I could!

[Eug Wanker]

Motion won't run on an eMac at all, because of the GPU. It is missing specific hardware features required by Motion.

The iMac G5 is capable of running Motion, but most reviews suggest the GPU is too slow for more than light or possibly moderate use in Motion.