Quote Originally Posted by efxmaster View Post
Hello all. I have an older Catalyst. It is running M165, but the computer is older. The computer is a Dual G5 2.7GHz with 512 MB of Ram. It does have a SCSI hard drive for content. My question, is that I have a show coming up in a month that really wants to playback HD content. So I have been able to run 1 1080i movie in the Apple Intermediate Codec, but if I try and add a second one it will drop the frame rate of both down to 15FPS. I tried running the same thing on my laptop which is an Intel Duo 2.2GHz with 2GB of ram, but only the normal hard drive that Apple puts in their laptops. It did almost the same thing.

Anthony
your laptop is faster than your g5 tower...

the scsi drives HES shipped were not good either.

what you see is telling you about the total system performance you can get - its about 30fps for the files you have.
i doubt you will get much more than that.