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G4 with FCP HD
I have a Dual 800 G4 and want to upgrade to FCP HD 5. What can I expect running FCP 5 on a G4?
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3 Replies
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Slower renders than a dual G5.
Run it in Tiger too, and when you install it do an erase and install on your startup disk of Tiger, upgrade to 10.4.2, and QT 7.0.1. Then install FCP 5 and run Software update again, repair permissions and edit. Figure though, that if you upgrade, you should be saving your pennies for a new Mac to do it on… (not that it won’t run on your machine but read on…) reason is, that the new render engine used with motion effects in FCP 5 can demand a lot of time if you use it’s highest qualtiy setting, which will be a much higher quaity render.. just slow (better processing=more time). I’d also think that doing multicam on a G4 is going to be less than perfect too.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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Running FCP 5 on a dual G4 with QT 7 and Panther 10.3.9 is probably the most stable version of FCP I’ve run since 1.2 on OS9. The idea of upgrading to Tiger doesn’t sound too appealing with the issues folks seem to be having.
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Don’t forget these boards are 99% problems, and not successes… so here’s one, and if you do a clean install as described above… you don’t have nearly the problems.
I just finished 120+ videos on a totally clean install, ran 14 hrs/day, and crashed exactly once. Tiger rocks, helps find files and more…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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