HMMMM.....
To tell you one thing, Mac OS X leopard is really heavy on PPC computer video cards if they are under 64MB VRAM, more or less the video performance wouldn't be expected to be normal considering the fact that the video card you have is original to your machine.
To clarify, after requests for clarification: The G5 is a single processor 1.8GHz PowerMac. The video card has DVI and ADC on it, and I'm running two monitors off it, an Apple ADC acrylic 20" and a ViewSonic DVI 23" monitor. The card is a GEForce FX 5200 with 64MB of VRAM.
I'm running the latest version of iMovie available for a G5. Audio and visual were not syncing, and often skipping.
Videos on the Web improved with the added memory. Video on iTunes improved but is still frame-by-frame jumpy.
I'm afraid I do not know the lingo that would allow me precise communication.
All the advice about preparing a Mac for video is, I confess, daunting. Thanks for the info. It sounds like video processing on a G5 is as big a hassle as using Pro Tools on anything. Touchy software, touchy computers.
I may simply not do video processing on it. I have an Intel Mac, after all. Oh, well. Unplugging a computer from USB stuff and my LAN seems like a crazy requirement, like a deliberate hobbling. Something out of Harrison Bergeron.
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