Final Cut Studio for the home user?

Ok, I have Final Cut Studio (all 4, unused, still in the box) and I'm considering getting rid of it.
But, first, could it come in handy for a general user, or is it going to be wasted?
I'm going back to school and considering letting film students use my computer for a small fee

If you are a person who seriously enjoys having the video editing power and capabilities of the pros, by all means keep studio and use it. I don't fingd it beyond the advanced amateur or aspitring film maker. It just depends on what you are looking to accomplish. It is fairly easy to learn with the tutorials and is very powerful. Sharing it with students and others is also a good idea. If you can't see yourself needing or using its capabilities then by all means sell it to someone who can use it. Be sure to transfer the licence with Apple if it has been registered.
Dave F

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Michael Grenadier wrote:
...You can install fcp 6 (which is what I think is included in fcs2) if you install Rosetta from a SnowLeopard OS disk. Some people here say that's not safe...
Michael: thanks for pointing that out, which is the next best course of action after not making the suggestion in the first place.
My research has led me to conclude that the "troublesome" installations seem to have been to Lion in its early (10.7 - 10.7.2) days and then corruption was introduced by the upgrade to 10.7.3 and beyond. However, in time, installations in Mt. Lion may well cause problems such as the one we both read about in another thread that caused his Compressor to stop functioning.
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I have asked Jeremy to provide this step-by-step instruction set, but after an initial response from him, I have not heard from him in quite a while now. A assume that he is a busy guy...
Since you do have access to FCS2 and seem genuinely interested in helping out, perhaps you could review Jeremy's blog on this subject and see if you can reduce it to a step-by-step instruction set:
http://www.jeremyjohnstone.com/blog/2012-03-11-apple-says-a-big-f-u-to-final-cut -studio-2-users.html/comment-page-1#comment-10377

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I've been using imovie for small easy projects for a number of years now and its great. However recently I filmed a wedding for some friends and need a program with a little more punch to do a professional job.
Firstly is Final Cut Studio accessible for a novice like me?
There are a few things I need to fix in post production that imovie just can't do. For example there are certain points where I need to eradicate bad camera shake. The other main problem is the sound. I recorded the sound separately on an audio device but for whatever reason the wav file is extremely quiet when played back. Therefore I need something to boost the sound. Is there anything in Final Cut Studio that will do this? These are the two big problems, there are other things like blond hair glair but I can sort that out later! Is Final Cut Studio right for me and do I have to be a computer genius in order to use it?
can anyone suggest any good books to purchase to help use the program.
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Otherwise how do I go about getting iMovie HD 6?
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Can I install Final Cut Studio on the G5 I have?

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I think you'll be able to run Motion, as long as you stay 8 or 10 bit.
You may remember that I wrote:
So if you do all your work in regular 8 or 10-bit, it should work.
It's difficult to upgrade a computer that old, as you probably realize.
I'm not sure whether your computer is a M9454LL/A or a M9555LL/A
I checked out these spec pages:
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP80
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP67
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ATI RADEON 9600 XT with 128MB DDR SDRAM
(wihch was used on the faster G5s of that series)
it should plug in and work.
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When you can afford an Intel machine, you can install it on the new machine
and go crazy!

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I wouldn't worry about storage, my library is now on a 4 TB external drive attached to my mac, I stream all my content to the tv and don't see any need to put any of it on the tv itself. Of course this relies on the mac being available whenever we want to watch something via the tv.
The tv can play alternate sound tracks, subtitles and does include for chapter selection. Of these adding subtitles may be the area of most difficulty, alternate sound tracks and chapters should be quite simple given your background.
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We are getting our Videos from suppliers in the HDV format as a .mov file. (More details at the end) These files were exported using Apples Final Cut Studio. Now we want to use these Video files for DVD burning. The DVDs should be in high quality, in 16:9, and with Intro and Menu. My question is do I need to by Apple Final Cut Studio for the Compressor and the DVD Studio Pro programm or is it sufficient enough to use Final Cut Express 4 to export the HDV files and use iDVD to burn the DVDs?
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Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt
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Duration : 1mn 31s
Overall bit rate : 27.0 Mbps
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Codec ID : hdv3
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Width : 1 440 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
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Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.656
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FCE cannot use native HDV files.
You would have to convert them first to one of the FCE friendly codecs then edit and pipe into iDVD.
You will get a pretty good result.
Compressor and DVDSPro will raise the bar of course but a lot more knowledge is involved in proper use of these programs.
Al

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