[Matt Killmon] "The machine: a Mac Pro Quad 2.66GHz with 4GB of RAM, AJA Kona 3, 4Gbit/s Fiber Channel RAID-5. This machine regularly captures 10-bit uncompressed HD with no problems. "
this is the absolute min machine for real time ProRes capture, as ProRes is a CPU HOG,
Turn off everything ( including the time server for the desktop)
you do not mention which version of QT, and this is a known issue with the Tiger OS and 7.3.x
QT versions.
Contact Tech support- they may have answers that you are not thinking of.
gary adcock
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