Older Catalyst and HD

[Marty Postma]

Anthony,

It is probably a combination of issues. More importantly the content drive and video card.

What video card are you using, and how much memory does it have?

The SCSI drive is also going to "bottleneck" you if trying to play back multiple HD clips simultaneously.

It wouldn't surprise me if only having 512 MB system RAM is also giving you issues.

Hope this helps

[efxmaster]

So on the side of the hard drive, would upgrading it to an SSD be better? Or what if I added an SSD to it and split the video between the two. I will have to check on the video card. It is out on a rental right now, but I will get it back tomorrow and look.

Thanks for the help.

[OlliR]

I doubt you will be able to get more than one Full-HD File playing at the same time on a G5 machine.
SSD might speed up things - but I don´t think that things will improve that much - will also depend on your application (curved screens use alot more resources than a flat image...)

[efxmaster]

No curved screen. It is going to be 3 screens next to each other. We were going to do a blend, but the client did not want to spend the money to get a 36' wide screen. They already had some 12' screens so they are just going to put them next to each other. Won't look as good as a blended screen, but I can't control that. So just 3 outputs. I am going to get a triple head to go so that I can run the 3 screens. So really it is just a matter of being able to play back 3 HD videos.

[Improve]

.....So just 3 outputs. I am going to get a triple head to go so that I can run the 3 screens. So really it is just a matter of being able to play back 3 HD videos.

I have to warn you... G5's don't support triple heads.... So that won't work.
Either you have to get an extra computer, or get hold of an MACPRO...

[efxmaster]

So why does it say on Matrox's website that it will work with a Power Mac G5? I have heard of other people using a Triple Head to Go with a G5.

[efxmaster]

So if I were to get a newer computer to do all of this, what would some recommendations be? Like what speed, how much memory, what graphics card and so forth.

Thanks

[samsc]

So why does it say on Matrox's website that it will work with a Power Mac G5? I have heard of other people using a Triple Head to Go with a G5.

the earlier g5s dont have enough graphics power to do triple head things-
ati 9800's were poor enough at 1024x768 - without going above that.

the earliest machines i used were the quad 2.5Ghz machines.