We purchased this for our son for Christmas & he has not had the time to do much with it yet but I felt it very important to write this review sooner than later. The reason being is that we purchased it based on the information on the "Product Features" section. I know we read the Production Description part as well but for whatever reason (Christmas rush?) our brains did not pick up on the contradictory information provided in this Amazon listing. The "Features" section states: Works with Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G3, G4, G5 or Intel processor; Mac OSX v10.3 or newer (Mac OS X 10.4 recommended).
Well, we also went out and purchased a used computer specifically for him to make his videos on. That was OUR mistake since we really should have read the info. more clearly. We are running OSX 10.4.11 and Quicktime 7.6.4 on a Mac G4 tower and are having difficulty running the program. We see now that the IstopMotion requires a G5 or higher computer. We contacted Boinx Support, who are very helpful by the way, & they informed me that: yes, it can run on a G4 but you have to make sure the graphics card is compatible & that it will only work on a G4 with Radeon 9600 which unfortunately ours doesn't have.
The software package does clearly state that the correct system requirements but Amazon made an error in it's listing. Please note this contradiction. I will contact Amazon myself so hopefully if you are reading this you are confused by my review, assuming that Amazon corrected the problem.
Otherwise, since we do have a 2nd computer with the correct requirements (just not an optimal situation since that is "the adult's" computer), he has been able to use it here and there (when time has allowed) & it seems like really cool software. He intends to make movies using his Legos & this will certainly improve on his previous results so in that regard, even though it hasn't been tested much, I would definitely recommend considering this software, especially for the price!
Get more detail about Istopmotion 2.
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