• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP Studio 2

  Posted by Jason Stephens on June 5, 2007 at 10:10 pm

  I am considering going to FCP Studio 2. My workflow will consist of mainly capturing, 720P HDV footage via firewire from an JVC HD100U, doing basic editing, color correcting, color grading, and then taking a Hard Drive with the file to a post house for final output to DVCPRO HD and Beta SP. I will, of course burn DVD’s for personal distribution, etc.

  My budget is not huge… here are the two systems I was considering.

  Option #1 – MacPro Tower
  Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
  4GB (4 x 1GB)
  500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
  External Firewire Media Drive (1 TB)
  NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
  One 16x SuperDrive
  22 Wide LCD Display
  Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
  Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse
  Mac OS X – U.S. English

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  Option #2 – 24 Inch IMac
  2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
  3GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM – 3x1Gb
  500GB Serial ATA Drive
  External Firewire Drive (1 TB)
  NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB SDRAM
  SuperDrive 8X (DVD+R DL/DVD

  Russell Lasson replied 18 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Russell Lasson

  June 5, 2007 at 11:19 pm

  Good things about option 1:

  More power for compressing videos
  Expandable internal drives to make future RAID
  Ability to add capture card for monitoring HDMI or HDSDI (Intensity card is only $250 and can be connected to a consumer HDTV)

  Good things about option 2:

  Portable (not like a laptop, but you can still take it somewhere without too much effort)
  Dual monitors for the price of a single monitor

  So do you want more power and the ability to add an inexpensive capture card or portability and savings?

  -Russ
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  Jason Stephens

  June 6, 2007 at 3:34 am

  So both options can handle the workflow nicely? What kind of performance can I expect?

  Jason
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  Russell Lasson

  June 7, 2007 at 6:08 pm

  [UnknwnProd] “What kind of performance can I expect?”

  I’m not sure how to answer that question. Look at http://www.barefeats.com. There isn’t a direct comparison between the two, but it would help.

  If it’s a long term set-up, I’d personally lean towards the Mac Pro because I’d want to expand it with capture cards and new graphics cards like the ATI X1900 XT (a very cool card for motion and color.)

  Both systems will do what you want though.

  -Russ

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