panos_stealth Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Hello everybody (good morning Europe) (good evening usa) I just purchased my Mac Pro@2,66 (Quad) and installed extra 4gb of ram, and the ATI X1900 XT I have 4*250 hd sata 2 I also installed an extra superdrive Do you think that all applications of FCS 2 (especially Motion and Color ) will be fast enough??? I am also planning to install AE cs3 so i want your oppinion for this too (regarding the MAC Pro horsepower) The 3.0 Ghz quad (2*dual core ) was too expensive for me so i decided to "lower" my financial....configuration Your help is much appreciated !!! Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 quick answer: yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Hello everybody (good morning Europe) (good evening usa)I just purchased my Mac Pro@2,66 (Quad) and installed extra 4gb of ram, and the ATI X1900 XT I have 4*250 hd sata 2 I also installed an extra superdrive Do you think that all applications of FCS 2 (especially Motion and Color ) will be fast enough??? I am also planning to install AE cs3 so i want your oppinion for this too (regarding the MAC Pro horsepower) The 3.0 Ghz quad (2*dual core ) was too expensive for me so i decided to "lower" my financial....configuration Your help is much appreciated !!! Thanks in advance Our Mac Pros are about the same (I'm using 4*500gb drives). FCS2 is plenty fast. My advice would always be to have separate capture and scratch disks, separate from your system disk. Looking forward to Adobe's Production Studio Premium in July. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solaar Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Well, just to give you an idea of what to expect from AE CS3. On my humble hack (specs in the sig), rendering a 5 second clip of a complex particle explosion in HD takes about 30 minutes - which is actually quite good. I suppose you can divide that time by 2-3 on your MacPro. If you care, it would be nice to let us know how it really performs on AE. At least speaking for myself, my next machine will very likely be a Mac Pro once the prices simmer down a bit on the eastern side of the Atlantic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Well, just to give you an idea of what to expect from AE CS3. On my humble hack (specs in the sig), rendering a 5 second clip of a complex particle explosion in HD takes about 30 minutes - which is actually quite good. I suppose you can divide that time by 2-3 on your MacPro. If you care, it would be nice to let us know how it really performs on AE. At least speaking for myself, my next machine will very likely be a Mac Pro once the prices simmer down a bit on the eastern side of the Atlantic. Hi Solaar, When I get the Production Premium CS3 package, I'll do comparisons of the same clips via my MacPro and my Hackintosh. I notice in your specs that we have the same video card. Have you ever tried to get dual dvi working? I get dvi on one but have to use vga adapter to get the second monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solaar Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 Hi Solaar, When I get the Production Premium CS3 package, I'll do comparisons of the same clips via my MacPro and my Hackintosh. I notice in your specs that we have the same video card. Have you ever tried to get dual dvi working? I get dvi on one but have to use vga adapter to get the second monitor. Hi BJ, no I haven't tried dual DVI yet as my second monitor is VGA only. I once installed Natit - which is supposed to be the only driver that supports dual display (really?) - but it made my setup crash really badly, so I gave up and switched back to Titan only. Cheers for doing the comparisons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King.Spades Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Hello everybody (good morning Europe) (good evening usa)I just purchased my Mac Pro@2,66 (Quad) and installed extra 4gb of ram, and the ATI X1900 XT I have 4*250 hd sata 2 I also installed an extra superdrive Do you think that all applications of FCS 2 (especially Motion and Color ) will be fast enough??? I am also planning to install AE cs3 so i want your oppinion for this too (regarding the MAC Pro horsepower) The 3.0 Ghz quad (2*dual core ) was too expensive for me so i decided to "lower" my financial....configuration Your help is much appreciated !!! Thanks in advance With the price tag on that specs, FCS 2 will be sailing smoothly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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