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- emptyempty
I've got a good old mac quicksilver 800mhz, 256mb ram which i havent touch for ages.
I'm thinking of upgrading it to use for video editing (FCP5), max up the ram to 1.5gb, would it still be capable of heavy video editing or/and motion work?
- HumanMale0
it would be capable, but slow as fuck!
- chossy0
yeah to a degree, I use two g4 blue dual 500 mhz with only like two gig of ram, for most of my AVID offline and online editing. AVID is hardware based so I guess it's a little different due to the fact FCP is geared around software, but I'm sure you can rock some stuff on it, certainly not any uncompresses 4.2.2 editing I'd think you would be reduced to offline DV only no more than this.
As for render times and real time video processing I'd think you would have only one real time layer available even if you enable unlimited RT and had dynamic playback frame rate and video quality switched.In conclusion I'd say that you could do DV editing and nothing more.
- honest0
aye, but they heat up quickly and are extremely noisy, side from that go for it. the dvd burner will need replacing after a bit – get a new burner at least x32 speed and strip out any other bits you don't need off the motherboard.
- emptyempty0
i'm going to give it a go, thanks dudes!
- pascii0
better save some money for a decent G5
- emptyempty0
definitely!