Re: Motion Not Upto Snuff

Apple seems to have a history of designing software that's just ahead of the hardware curve. Aaron's specs are unfortunately not the best for running Motion.

I use it now on a dual G5, 4GB RAM, and Radeon X800XT. It's a bit of a challenge to keep Motion projects simple enough to render quickly. I would consider this performance sub-par. After Effects + Nucleo Pro is wonderful on this system.

Motion seems to perform *much* better on Intel hardware - the greater memory bandwidth and faster RAM is likely one reason, as are having access to faster cards.

My new Mac Pro arrived yesterday: 4x3Ghz, X1900 card, 10GB RAM. I'm installing FCS2 right now - I'm guessing Motion is going to run a little faster now. =)

Don't forget to fix your layers' resolution to the canvas size! That speeds things up quite a bit.

I find Motion great for lower thirds, backgrounds, and other elements - but once stuff starts getting complicated I reach for AE.