PM dual1.8GHz - Full HD Video?
G'day,
Would you expect a G5 dual 1.8Ghz PowerMac to handle playback of a full HD - 1920x1050 p50 - quicktime MOV file without missing a frame/s?
Back in 2007 I used Sony XD Cameras, which recorded full HD. We captured the footage using then new Intel Mac Pros, converting the files to .mov. Playing them back on my 1.25GHz eMac would result in lots of dropped frames.
My G5 is meant to operate about twice as fast as the eMac... (though bench tests show it currently isn't) I've just recorded full HD footage as noted above on a Panasonic TM900 prosumer camera, but the G5 can't even play a 1 minute clip from start to end - firstly its dropping frames, but by about 1/2 way through the clip, it stalls completely.
I was expecting I'd need to edit on my wife's Macbook Pro... but was a bit surprised that it couldn't handle playback at all...
Cheers
cosmic
PowerMac 2004 dual 1.8GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 1.25GHz RAM, 2x 1TB WD Green Drives, Stock Vid Card