• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  specs and things

  Posted by Jason Padgett on March 25, 2009 at 8:07 am

  I was told that you can use a mac book pro with Final Cut Studio to edit video, what kind of specs would I need to function because right now, I can’t save anything and I have about ten hours of DV tape footage for a documentary I shot in Egypt. And another problem I am running into is I keep dropping audio frames and most of my audio is out of sync.

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  Walter Biscardi

  March 25, 2009 at 11:59 am

  You need a media storage device. We recommend FW 800 RAID at the very minimum and eSATA is even better for speed. You can look at G-Tech, LaCie, Sonnet and Maxx Digital among others for options. You want at least double the amount of storage needed to ensure plenty of overhead and speed.

  If you’re capturing / playing back your media from the internal Mac HD, then you’re going to run into all sorts of issues. Media should NEVER be captures / stored on your primary system drive.

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  Kent Stipp

  March 25, 2009 at 1:35 pm

  Jason,
  Editing on a Mac Book Pro is something you can definatly do. I do it all the time.
  IF it were me I’d look at either the 2.66 in either the 15″ or 17″ depending on my budget. I use a 15 and I’m quit happy. the 17″ will now hold up to 8gig of ram and that is a bonus. I am using 4 in my MacBook Pro with a 320 gig 7200 rpm hard drive and an IoHD and and external Sata drive and happy with the results.

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  Torrey Loomis

  March 25, 2009 at 10:10 pm

  Jason,

  Walter hit it on the head when he said that you really need an external drive for your media. What are the exact specs of your system?

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  Jason Padgett

  March 26, 2009 at 5:22 am

  I had done that and it still isn’t letting me do anything.

  Model Name: MacBook Pro 15″
  Model Identifier: MacBookPro1,1
  Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
  Processor Speed: 2 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 1
  Total Number Of Cores: 2
  L2 Cache: 2 MB
  Memory: 2 GB
  Bus Speed: 667 MHz
  Boot ROM Version: MBP11.0055.B08
  SMC Version: 1.2f10
  Serial Number: W860806SVJ1
  Sudden Motion Sensor:
  State: Enabled

  Those are the specs I have

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