• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Apple system specs for 24P HDV, Red,

  Posted by Jb Letchinger on January 7, 2009 at 10:03 pm

  Hello all,
  I’m thinking of upgrading to allow for editing 24 and 30P HDV.
  I may be buying the Sony HVR-z7U for production, and integrate that into the projects I post here. Am currently running FCP v. 5.0.4 on G5 1.8 gig single processor. That has been fine for the DVCPRO 50 format, but I expect will be useless for HDV and CF card slow mo, etc… Also would love to cut RED footage for reel..

  Some clients require supervised post sessions and I can’t have slow render time and hiccups.

  Main questions:
  do I buy the MacPro? Or go with an Imac?
  Do I need an additional video card?
  How could I monitor the HDV sequence to an external LCD w/ HDMI, component and composite inputs?
  Do I keep things HDV all the way through or use the prores?

  Any do’s or don’ts would be welcomed.
  THANKS

  JB

  JBL Films, Inc.
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  https://www.non-fictionstudios.com

  Chris Borjis replied 17 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Chris Borjis

  January 7, 2009 at 10:40 pm

  1. Definitely MacPro

  2. consider an aja kona-lhe minimum

  3. see #2 (no hdmi though, but component will work just fine)

  4. I’ve done lots of HDV projects and not had problems (G5 quad with 4gb ram)
  (The kona-lhe will allow you to capture it as prores)

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