Apple Installing Your Shake 4 Software - Manual (Page 4)

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Shake 4 System Requirements
Before you install Shake 4, make sure that your Macintosh system meets the following
minimum requirements.
Minimum Hardware and Software Configuration
• Power Mac G5; Power Mac G4 or PowerBook G4 with 1 GHz or faster PowerPC G4
processor
• Mac OS X v10.3.9 or Mac OS X v10.4 (or later)
• QuickTime 7 (or later)
• 512 MB of RAM minimum—1 GB RAM or more recommended
• 1 GB of available disk space for caching and for temporary files
• AGP graphics card with at least 32 MB of video memory and OpenGL hardware
acceleration
• Display supporting 1280 x 1024-pixel resolution and 24-bit color, with 32MB or more
of VRAM and Open GL hardware acceleration
• Three-button mouse
Minimum Requirements for Render-Only Workstations
The Shake 4.0 render-only workstation requires the following minimum hardware and
software configuration:
• 500 Mhz or higher PowerPC G4
• PowerPC G4 refers to any Tower, PowerBook, iMac, eMac over 500 Mhz.
• 1 Ghz PowerPC G4 or higher XServe
• Mac Mac OS X v10.3.9 or Mac OS X v10.4 (or later)
• QuickTime 7 (or later)
• 1 GB local disk space for caching and temporary files
• 256 MB of RAM
RAM Requirements
Real-time playback is a function of RAM, processor, image size, clip length, and graphics
card. In Shake, images are loaded into memory and then played back. Current systems
cannot achieve real-time playback with 2K-resolution images. With sufficient RAM and
a good graphics card, files of up to 1K resolution should play back in real time.
Use the following formula to determine the amount of required memory:
width * height * channels * bytes per channel * images = bytes
For example, a single 1024 x 768 RGB 8-bit (1 byte) per channel image is:
1024 * 768 * 3 * 1 = 2359296 bytes
Or, approximately 2.4 MB per frame.