Excited to start editing and figuring out my hardware
I'm getting started with editing after spending many years, if not decades interested in it. I have a new (thanks to xmas and my wife) laptop 10.5.8, 2.8 ghz intel core duo. My daughter is also sending me her old tower 10.4.9, dual 2ghz G5. It has Final cut studio 5.0
Should I install final cut pro 5.0 on the laptop or am I okay using the tower? I want to edit video from my sony digital handycam trv27 and from my daughter's trv330 and make dvds. Nice looking dvds. Not home movie looking. The hardest part of this new adventure seems to be figuring out how the software and hardware best fit together. Can't wait to get to the fun part of actually editing. I hope an expert here might be able to give me some advice.
Congratulations on getting started.
A couple of points...
1. v5.0 will not run on an intel machine. To run FCP on the laptop, you'll need to upgrade to Final Cut Studio 3 (which includes FCP7)
2. Your daughter must send all disks, manuals and other documentation with the machine or you do not have a valid Final Cut Pro license. Possession of an installed version does not constitute ownership and, without all that stuff, you are not running legal software and are not eligible to upgrade.
3. The G5 will be perfectly fine for editing DV.
4. Read the manuals, read through articles at Ken Stone's website, do the tutorials a Lyndia.com if you like tutorials to learn. FCP is a deep, complex and frustrating program - made even more so when you have no conceptual basis to understand what's going on. The sooner you get a solid grounding within the program and with video in general, your editing life will be much smoother.
5.If you come to this forum (or almost any other), recognize you are very unlikely to be the first person to ever have your specific question/issue. The search function - on this forum in particular and Google in general, will be your best friend. Use it as your FIRST step in solving your issue and you'll find a great deal of wisdom all ready laid out for you.
6. Remember it's supposed to be fun.
Good luck,
x
edit - Man, I am typing very, very slow this afternoon ... lol.
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