Editing video on the mini

Will the mac mini be able to support Final Cut Express HD and possibly Final cut pro? Do I need the 1 GB upgrade or will it work reasonably well with the 512? I am going to major in video editing so I need a computer that will be able to handle Final Cut programs.

I use Final Cut Express 2 and iMovie HD on my mini (with 512Mb RAM) and both work well, though Final Cut might benefit from more RAM. If I were using the system for video as a primary task, I'd certainly opt for 1Gb as a matter of course.
It would be wise to add an external firewire hard drive to capture video and provide an improvment in performance. Without this, as per a recent discussion on drive performance, you might find Final Cut Pro a little lagging in responsiveness for regular or crucial use.
Like Nick, I've used FCP on a G4/450 powermac quite happily, and the mini has rather more power.

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Have you blown the dust out lately?
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iStat Menus...
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
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Argh!
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Hey, I've been editing a short movie with premiere and I accidentally removed the audio from half the footage and can't restore it, all the auto save files saved it after I finished editing. All I want to do is get the audio from the edited video, as the video clips are there but the audio aren't, only in the original clip does it have the audio.
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* Is the mac mini going to suit my purposes?
* Not sure what to do about drives?? Solid state? Sata? Thunderbolt

I use a 2012 mac mini server 2.0 i7 (quad core) 8GB ram as a second edit station with FCP 7. It works just peachy.
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x

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Hi Catflow and welcome to Apple Support.
So it kind of depends on how intensive your editing will be, especially videos. A professional video editor will have multiple monitors and the fastest possible Mac. I knew a video editor in Chicago who ran with 5 36" Cinema Monitors and an 8 Core Mac Pro.
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