17″ MacBook Pro released today

[Cm Creative media]

Another major tease..but a good one. I’m trying to hold out for the towers but this is so very appealing. Has anyone heard much about how FCP universal operates on these? I’m doing mainly corporate range work and I am debating tower versus portable. Anyone want to weigh in? I am a “closed loop” production (produce, shoot, edit and finsh in house) and I have lots of office space. I’m in the 2nd year of business so I’m open to future growth. My client focus is corporate and comercial broadcast, and I’m currently using FCP 4.5 on a G4 533.

Thanks for any advice

Craig Moore

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CM Creative Media
Video Production

[Gary Taylor]

I am actually pretty happy with it. I have grown to love 17 inch laptops on the PC side. Apple added most of what I expected except for the option for a faster graphics card. Should be an amazing system.
Gary

[Nick B]

Peter Wiggins did a test of his 15inch intel mac and compared it to his G5 dual 2gig and the laptop came out just as fast overall.

Do a seach on this forum.

[Gary Taylor]

Oops! That is except for a WUXGA screen. I’ll bet all that will happen later as build to order.
Gary

[Ben Holmes]

[CM Creative Media] ” I’m currently using FCP 4.5 on a G4 533″

Wow – didn’t know that this met the minimum specs. You will find that FCP 5.1 works great on any Intel Mac – I have it running on a Duo Core Mini. If you are only working on DV, why not get a MacBookPro for the road, and an Imac for the office – they will both scream along compared to what you are using. One word of warning – not all plug-ins (AE particularly) work with Intel Macs yet.

Enjoy – you have a world of real-time, speedy production ahead of you!

Ben

Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS and FCP specialists
Current Mac systems All Dual 2.7Ghz with Kona 2 and Digital Voodoo cards, 6Gb Ram, Sapphire, SCSI320 Medea and Huge Arrays.

FCP projects include Sky TV coverage of the Ryder Cup and US Open Golf – Live OB specialists. Edit/slomo vehicle.
http://www.editec.co.uk

[Peter Wiggins]

I don’t think thats SFP 🙁

Peter

Editing the World Championship Snooker
on FCP for the BBC

Free Motion Templates

https://www.peterwiggins.com

[Cm Creative media]

Yeah,

it probably doesn’t meet the theoretical specs but I talk nice to it everyday :). It actually works fine. I am surprized. I keep the effects to a minimum and have learned many workflow methods that minimize rendering. Of course I haven’t touched anything better so as not to create too much envy. But now I’m ready (budget-wise) for big speed and pseduo-real time workflow.
My biggest concern is when the towers come out will they go big with some type of quad version that I will kick myself for buying something else earlier. I realize that you have to jump in sometime but this is such a revoltion that I have to make a calculated, informed and useful decision that i will have to live with for a few years.

I think I will repost this thread under a new heading to see if others can wiegh in as well. I appreciate your comments.

Craig Moore
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CM Creative Media
Video Production