How Sorry Will I Be: iMac + FCP?
I have a late '08 iMac 2.8 G Core 2 Duo with 4 gigs RAM. I have just swallowed hard and got FCP to process my underwater video.
How sorry will I be that I plan to use FC Studio 3 on my 3-year old iMac?
I am not a video professional. This is a hobby for me. Having done a few fairly complicated projects in iMovie HD, I guess I'd say I'm an intermediate beginner.
I can probably live with a little frustration in waiting for stuff to render. I know there are newer, much faster machines out there. It might even be time to consider one. The iMac has no expandability to speak of and a comparatively slow ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro graphics processor.
Am I nuts for both trying to beat down the FCP learning curve on this old, comparatively slow machine?
BTW, I just got an external 2TB HD to be connected via FW800 for my projects. I'm hoping that will help some.
Any advice to this newbie would be appreciated.
Richard Setterberg wrote:
I have a late '08 iMac 2.8 G Core 2 Duo with 4 gigs RAM. I have just swallowed hard and got FCP to process my underwater video.
How sorry will I be that I plan to use FC Studio 3 on my 3-year old iMac?
This discussion is all relative and the biggest factor is not your hardware but your willingness to work within the confines of FCP and not force it do what you think it should be doing.
I am not a video professional. This is a hobby for me. Having done a few fairly complicated projects in iMovie HD, I guess I'd say I'm an intermediate beginner.
I can probably live with a little frustration in waiting for stuff to render. I know there are newer, much faster machines out there. It might even be time to consider one. The iMac has no expandability to speak of and a comparatively slow ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro graphics processor.
Am I nuts for both trying to beat down the FCP learning curve on this old, comparatively slow machine?
I don't believe it's that old or slow at all that's not what you should be concerned about.
What type of video are you going to be working with and how are you going to output?
Will you be working with H.264 and can't be bothered with transcoding and you need to author a Bluray disc with customizable menus? Then FCP ain't for you.
Every single day some "filmmaker" barges into the Apple forums rampaging about, complaining how they need to render everything and their brand spanking new 63 core machine is slow slow slow and they can't be bothered to learn how Final Cut Pro works with video, sequences, storage and video codecs. I actually hope these people keep coming as it makes for humorous reading.
So, you're not nuts at all for using your iMac with FCP because it will work well provided you work within the confines of the application. You've also noted the video card and the iMac's lack of expansion so just be aware that Motion is GPU dependent and complicated projects will take some time to render.
BTW, I just got an external 2TB HD to be connected via FW800 for my projects. I'm hoping that will help some.
A multiple drive FW800 raid would be better, depending upon your source video.
Any advice to this newbie would be appreciated.
Dive in and have fun and peruse the first 5 pages of this forum and learn what NOT to do.
Good luck.
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