• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  power mac G5 quad.

  Posted by Kate Farrel on December 1, 2005 at 2:27 am

  hi
  has anyone installed and edited Final Cut Pro on the new power mac G5 quad (dual-core).
  any reviews or pros and comns appreciated.
  kate

  Todd Beabout replied 20 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Boyd Mccollum

  December 1, 2005 at 3:50 am

  I just upgraded over the weekend from a 17″ G4 1.5 GHz Powerbook with 1.5 Gigs of RAM using a 23″ Cinema Display to the Quad w/8 gigs of RAM, two 400 gig harddrives and a 30″ Cinema display. Huge increase in performance, and I’m in the middle of a graphics heavy project that I can’t imagine doing on my laptop. I picked it up at the Apple Store and kept the stock graphics card; I’m not doing a lot of Motion at this point so it’s not really an issue – in 6-8 months it might be, but if so, I’ll just a get a better card at that time. The 30″ display rocks. I know folks talk about the benefits of more screen real estate with two 23″ monitors, but I love the vertical real estate of the larger monitor.

  Boyd
  “Go slow to go fast”
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  Todd Beabout

  December 1, 2005 at 4:43 pm

  Just be aware of the PCIe slots. The last generation had PCI-X slots, which are not compatible, so if you have older cards, they will not work. Also, we are not getting a Quad because of the lack of a fibre card to connect it to our XRaid. Do a search of this forum for a lot more info on that issue.

  -Todd Beabout
  Vazda Studios

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