ATI Radeon HD4870, not used with motion as GPU acceleration

Hi, I have a problem with my setup. Motion does not use my ATI card for GPU acceleration.
So a simple project on my new mac with this card, is much, much slower than my macbookpro with Nvidia GeForce 9400M, or my old edit machine that has a Radeon X1900 on a macPro 3GHz.
And the atMonitor utility shows good use of GPU on these machines, but on my new machine with ATI HD 4870 card, the GPU is never used in motion.... So what is wrong with my HD4870 card.
/Helge

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