I asked some questions like this last year....
On 2011/01/11 14:24, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote:
On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:00 PM, aspirito wrote:
I love this machine and it's been good to me and I'm wondering
what (if any) would be the best way to just give it a bit more
oomph as I do video editing for a living and am about to upgrade
everything to HD. Works rather well and quickly with the SD
footage I've been editing for years, but I'm on a new Mac Pro 2.8
Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 6 gigs of memory at work and even
THAT can take it's sweet time with the hard core 1920x1080
footage.
That should tell you right away that about the only upgrade that will
help is lashing a new Mac Pro Quad Core to the back with duct tape.
Video editing isn't all that dependent on the video card,
paradoxically.
Adding more RAM is probably the best thing you can do to improve video
editing times. That, or a 15k RPM HDD might help too. But like Bruce I
don't think the video card is going to matter much on a PPC Mac.
It might be a different story on a Mac Pro IF Grand Central can pass
off
some of the work from the CPU to the GPU. Honestly though I don't know
if it does/can.
My 1.8 GHz G5 tower wouldn't handle video worth a damn. Not for editing.
So I purchased a G5 Dual 2.3GHz PowerMac, and it does OK. I can do
some basic video editing.
But, truthfully, my Intel-chipped MacBook Pro does much better. I'll
be using both Macs at my workstation, soon.
Timo V
PowerPC G5x2.3GHz
MacBook Pro 13" / Workgroup Server 9650 / Power Macintosh 6500 /
Power Macintosh 5500 / Macintosh SE/30 / Macintosh Classic
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