• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Recommend Mac Setup (repost sorry)

  Posted by Josh Evans on January 11, 2009 at 3:53 am

  Maybe a stupid post with a million different types of response, but….

  I am speccing out a computer for work. And I was wondering if you could reccomend a setup that is somewhere around the mid price range but will still be good in a few years time.

  Not expecting to work with dual monitors, but will be using FCP and motion heavily.

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  OK I guess around the $6,500 mark. Or is that too cheap for something that should still be very competitive in a couple of years.

  The computer will be used mainly for FCP shooting HDV footage, and also a lot of Motion 3 work, so it will need a lot of RAM.

  Josh Evans replied 17 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Rob Grauert

  January 11, 2009 at 4:53 am

  I think $6500 dollars is plenty will get you a decent Mac, but if you want a Kona 3 card, that will eat up a lot of your budget.

  Since Motion is so RAM intensive, I’d buy as much RAM as I can from http://www.otherworldcomputing.com. It’s Mac Certified, very affordable, and I’ve been using it since I got my Mac Pro and have never had problems with it.

  Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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  Josh Evans

  January 11, 2009 at 6:52 pm

  thanks alot.

  Ill be buying in Japan, but im assuming they ship international.

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