Min specs for FCP

i am going to be upgrading my mac soon and want to know what i should be looking into..i mean theres a chance i might be able to get it used off Ebay.i dont want something that i have to upgrade immeadity you know.do you need dual processors??

It really depends what format you are editing. DV? No. Single Processor G4 will be fine.
Here are the requirements:
System Requirements
Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G4 (500MHz or faster) or G5 processor; HD features require 1GHz or faster single or dual processors
512MB of physical RAM; HD features require 1GB of RAM or more (2GB recommended)
AGP or PCI Express graphics card
Mac OS X v10.3.9 or Mac OS X v10.4 (or later)
QuickTime 7.0 or later
1GB of disk space required to install application; additional 10GB required to install all optional templates, loops, content and tutorials (may be installed on separate disks)
DVD drive for installation
Note: Final Cut Pro 5.0.3 or greater is required for PCI Express–based systems.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/specs.html
Shane
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So if you are developing your application using C#, you'll need the .net 1.1 framework. Here is where you can find infomation on specs for that.
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Screen Resolution 800 x 600 pixels
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RAM 256 MB
Screen Resolution 1024 x 768 pixels
Operating System Windows 2000/XP or later
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Macbook Pro Specs for FCP

I am a pro photographer interested in working with video. I have 2 questions:
1. Best way/forum to learn FCP?
2. Ideal specs on Macbook Pro for FCP?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

The specs are clearly listed in the FCP marketing pages. They are conservative and you will need external drives.
There is no best way to learn an application as deep and complex as a video editor. You explore the net, buy some books, decide what your level of competence needs to be in order to bill your clients.
There is a direct comparison to your chosen profession. How did you learn to be a professional photographer? There's more to taking pictures than having decent equipment and known how to launch Photoshop. I started shooting when I was 11 years old in 1965 and I needed 15 years to become adept with the physics of light and the chemistry of film. Digital shooters, generally, have no clue about how their tools work. How does one teach them?
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Which specs for FCP and which camcorder?

Hi guys,
will be using the macbook for editing gigs/events/music video's etc. what specs would be best?
and any thoughts on a camcorder? currently got my eye on sony hxr mc50e but wanting to know if you think any others are better?
defo needs to be HD, portable, SD preferred over MiniDV, Needs to have good low light recording and good audio. Max budget is about £1300
hope u can help
many thanks

If, despite all advice to the contrary, you still go for the MacBook Pro then I'd recommend the base 17” MacBook Pro (MBP) configuration, with 160GB 5400 RPM hard disc option, and an additional 1 GB RAM (to make 3 GB total).
Why the 17” model?
Because when editing you need as much screen space as possible. Yes, it is bigger and heavier than the 15”, but I think that it’s larger and higher resolution display is worth that sacrifice.
Why the bigger but slower 160GB 5400 RPM hard disc option?
Laptop drives already have a much smaller capacity than their desktop cousins and those little drives, inevitably, fill up quickly with all your stuff!
And of course, you're planning to get an external media drive too, right? If you don’t have one then your internal disc will be eaten up by clip media in no time (especially if you opted for the smaller faster internal disc).
Why 3 GB RAM?
Well OK, thats an expensive option, but seriously, if you can afford it the money is well spent.
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Mini spec for ios

Hi,
I'm looking into purchasing a macbook pro but didn't want to spend too much. I'm mainly looking into learning iOS development. I'm already familiar with object oriented programming, do it for a living, but we never got into developing apps for mobile devices. But i wanted to get started, does anyone know if the cheapest macbook pro, the $1199 model, is good enough, will it crawl or can it handle xcode and interface builder without slowly down? Also will running windows on there crawl the machine, as I do a lot of .net programming so i would need windows running on the machine when needed.
thanks.

That should be enough for everything...

What are the true min spec's for PRE7

I have been using PE7 with mixed results on my Sony 1.8 GH moble centrino laptop with 2 gig of memory running XP. When importing Jpeg video from a Sony flash memory camcorder the problem is centered around the low on memory issue. I seam to get this more frequent when editing in the native Jpeg format (smaller file size) than if I convert to DVI( larger file size ) I'm not sure I get this. I am just doing standard def video for play back on a 42" plasma or 178" projection home theater. The footage looks great and the DVDs come out fine but the low memory problem gets to be a pain. I have considered moving to a mac as I'm just doing home videos in standard def and would like to have the system be a lot more stable while doing the creative stuff (adding effects & teaking transitions ). The big reason I have not made the switch is I have been using Premiere for a long time and many versions and like being able to have many layers of video ( multiple tracks for effects and video layering ) and being able to pretty much do anything I can think of in ways of effects and transitions with graphics and effects layered over top of them. Sorry for the long winded description but my question is simple ( maybe ) what is the min spec for a laptop to produce standard def DVDs with respectable previews, stable operation and no low on memory errors. I would way rather stay with a PC and Premiere to produce my family videos as all the PC software I already own but would like to know how much of a laptop I would need to upgrade to to make PRE7 run clean. I know more is better but you can get a pretty respectable laptop for $700 and can easily spend up to $2000. Would like to be able to run PRE7 clean but would also like to be aimed more toward $700 than $2000.

will I have to live with some system house keeping and a few crashes or can I expect to run mostly clean ( no crashes ) with a Core Duo 2.0 ghz system with four gig of memory.
The biggest limitation that you will face is with your I/O sub-system, i.e. your HDD's. The rest should be fine.
What happens with most laptops is that they have one HDD. NLE work requires a lot of HDD access. When your OS (including the Page File) and the NLE needing to access the media files, plus the files that it writes to the Scratch Disks. All of this is happening at the same time, and something has to give. Something needs to come at the end of the line. If that happens to be the NLE, then it could well crash.
The first thing that I would do is clean out the Boot.ini and Startup w/ MSCONFIG to get rid of the "junk," that is not needed. Next, I'd turn off all AV, spyware sweepers and pop-up blockers. Last, I'd run a program like EndItAll2 to stop all other unnecessary Processes. Then, and only then, would I launch the NLE. During this time, I would refrain from anything involving the Internet, or my POP server, and would also not do things like use iTunes, etc. Remember, we shut down our AV and the other protective programs, plus programs like iTunes want to bring a lot of other applets along for the ride. The former exposes you to all sorts of problems (I do this, and I am behind a hardware firewall), the next just uses up resources. If you also want iTunes, buy an iPod to listen to, while editing.
Now, when I wanted a laptop to do editing, the first concern was for one that would allow me 3x SATA II HDD's. I managed to also get a Quad-core processor, and had to bargain to get a full 4GB of RAM and XP-Pro (the 4GB option was only available for Vista and I did not want that).
Now, on my laptop, editing to/from a FW-800 2TB external (so I can also take the Project to my workstation), I am editing an 8 hour epic in PrPro. While I do not use PE so much, I've done quite a few Projects, just for this forum. I've never had one crash and a few of those were over 2 hours of SD (DV-AVI Type II) footage. Never hiccuped, crashed, or even ran slow. I use PrPro most of the time, because it reminds me more of my cine days. PE4 (my version) is a bit too automated, and "prettied up," for this old guy. I'm also a control freak, and want to do everything pretty much by hand. I seldom like "big button" solutions, 'cause I want to do it frame by frame.
Also, I often have PrPro, PS, AI, Encore and a word processor open at the same time. With 3x HDD's and similar specs to yours (OK Quad vs Duo-core), I can do almost anything that I want. Still, without the bloatware and the other detritus.
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Minimum Spec for FCE4: cheapest Mac Mini?

I'm looking to get a Mac Mini primarily to record endoscopic video (s-video) via a Canopus ADVC 55 using Final Cut Express. Looking at the minimum requirements for FCE4 it seems the cheapest model with 2GB RAM should be way more than adequate. The specs don't even mention hard drive speed.
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I'm afraid I cannot really answer your question as I don't need / use the features of the snow leopard server software. Hardware wise the differences add more ram, 2 hard drives (and they're faster) but no optical drive (with the option of connecting one externally). Other than that it comes with snow leopard server which allows you to use it as a normal mac, but additionally can be set up as mail server, file server, and a bunch of utilities to help manage this (not sure how accurate my understanding of the differences between the software).
Incidentally the normal version of snow leopard has a certain amount of server functionality anyway, eg filesharing, web hosting etc. I think the server edition mainly provides lots of tools to take this further.
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I just got an old apple mac mini a1103. i found out it comes without a power adapter. What are the specs for the power adapter

can some one tell me the specs for the power adapter. Is there a manual available somewher on apple site for this computer?

Hi lllaass,
Thanks for your great answer.
That website link is for a1105. Is it same as a1103?
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Please help me configure a new 8core for FCP

PLEASE HELP A PC GUY MOVE OVER...
I need to configure a new 8-core for FCP mainly. I need to keep the expense reasonable so dont want to spend extra $$$ if i dont have to.
I edit files from many different camera's these days. Mostly weddings & demos.
I want to go with an 8 core either Two 2.26GHz, OR 2.66GHz? Is the 2.2 fast enough with FCP?
How much ram do i need?
Do I need to stripe 2 sata drives together for the video?
Which video card?
Can you recommend any other software/hardware that will help me?
Here is a link to apples spec page:
http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html
THANKS

sarecco wrote:
PLEASE HELP A PC GUY MOVE OVER...
Welcome to the family. if you are not familiar with the Macintosh operating system, get yourself a book.
sarecco wrote:
I want to go with an 8 core either Two 2.26GHz, OR 2.66GHz? Is the 2.2 fast enough with FCP?
Either will work fine.
sarecco wrote:
How much ram do i need?
As much as you want but 8G will be adequate. More might not help significantly.
sarecco wrote:
Do I need to stripe 2 sata drives together for the video?
Depends on the video you're trying to use or if you want to do 9 camera multiclips. Maybe.
sarecco wrote:
Which video card?
The stock 4870 is the gold standard for Motion; the current rev of FCP does not care much about the GPU but we are hoping future revs will use the card directly.
sarecco wrote:
Can you recommend any other software/hardware that will help me?
Umm, withotu knowing what you need to do, of course not.
sarecco wrote:
THANKS
No sweat, ignore those other guys. We see this post about once a week around here so you can easily research it on the forum. Strongly urge you to locate your local Macintosh user group.
bogiesan

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Best mac for FCP

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Would anybody be so kind and tell me what is the minimal set up I would need for FCP? I'm not a professional and would be using it for dabbling rather then serious work. Would Mac Book be sufficient? How much memory would I need?
Best
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check this out Sion, this is your best bet for
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Specs for Keynote in iBooks

Does anyone know the maximum specs for media in keynote (audio, video) to work in iBooks? Proto works in keynote, widget in iBooks shows keynote import (after very long time - maybe 15 min), when I try the iPad preview, the keynote shows blank.
Video and audio encoded with iTunes Plus. Should I change?
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Thank you for this link.
I have already read this and tested each file separately in keynote. The audio and video files are encoded properly.
The problem is when all of them are combined, the end result is a blank page.
Further tests:
Links on 5 pages for audio / video - works
Links on 11 pages for audio / video - works
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HD ready LCD for FCP monitoring (PAL)?

Hi from the UK (PAL land)
Im looking for the best value LCD HD ready screen to buy for monitoring my FCP stuff!
I have a G5 Dual G5 2.5GHz with 23" cinema and 20" displays. Im not producing broadcast material - just corporate and wedding DVD's, and up till now I have been using a standard CRT sony portable for an external monitor which has done me fine for the kind of work we produce.
I would like something like 26" - 30" inch LCD to put up on the wall, but I also want to monitor it for my SD and HD projects (for the future). We have been shotting in HD for own own personal projects keeping them until a burner and HD-DVD player becomes available her in the UK (god knows when!)
Anyone out there got any suggestions, and what will I need to hook up my mac to such a monitor? my buget is maximum £700.00-ish!
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In my opinion, 99.9% of TV monitors make lousy computer monitors due to their relatively low resolution. If you'll look a the specs for the Soyo model you linked to, you'll see the ONLY resolution setting is 1366 x 768 ... pretty low for critical computer work.
In comparison, Apple's 23" Cinema Display and Dell's 24" has up to 1920 x 1200 and Apple's 30" is up to 2560 x 1600.
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Trade iMac G5 for Dual 1.25 MDD PowerMac for FCP??

Hey guys, I've gotten an offer to trade my iMac G5 for a MDD PowerMac G4. I'll show you the specs comparing the 2.
iMac G5
1.8 ghz
17'' Screen
1 gig of ram
Tiger
SuperDrive
80 Gig Drive
for
PowerMac G4 (MDD) (WIND TUNNEL)
Dual 1.25
1 gig of ram
Panther (I think)
SuperDrive
100 gig drive
Geforce4 Graphics Card
Not sure if he will include a display..
Is this a downgrade? I have a problem with the expandability of the iMac, I've grown weary of it. I like the all-in-one design, room for it, but no room to put stuff in it. For FCP, the iMac's been doing a pretty good job, but I want to be able to put extra internal drives in, etc. Either direction I go, I'll end up replacing the computer in a year or 2.

iMac:
Bigger screen
Fast processor
Newer machine
Newer, faster SuperDrive
Self contained
Better video card
Cons: no way to add a second internal hard drive or second firewire bus
G4:
Internal expansion for hard drives
Can upgrade the video card
Can add a second firewire bus
Large hard drive
Can add more RAM
Cons: older, slower, getting older.
It's your call. It depends on what you intend to do with the iMac or the G4.
Unlike everybody else, for video editing, I prefer an expandable cpu

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