24 inch Imac

[Jerry Hofmann]

I’m sure it’s plenty of computer to run FCP and edit DV and HDV or even DVCPROHD… however that is likely all it will ever edit. It’s incapbable of capturing other than what is transmitted via firewire, and it also isn’t capbable of other expansion such as for faster than FW arrays etc… It’s limited expansion is it’s downside. Very sexy computer however.

Jerry

[Supervideo]

Do you think it would be responsive and not sluggish editing HDV …I am curious how well FW800 would do for that ?
Thanks for your reply

[Jerry Hofmann]

The data rate of HDV is actually lower than DV… so the drive should work great.

HDV’s slowness comes from renders and “conforming” of the GOP structure of HDV. The faster the Mac, the faster the renders… so a new tower intel would be as much as twice as fast in that regard.

Jerry

[Supervideo]

ok than cool…..let me just clairfy in better detail what my issue was .I was editing hdv before on a dual 3 gig pc with 2 gigs of ram and Sata hard drives in raid 0 .using premier pro .I wanted to start using Final Cut so I thought before I bought a expensive Mac that I would start using FC on a Imac
just to see how things went .( this was the 20 inch intel no FW 800 ) that was out just before these new ones came out .my issue was that I found the Imac much slower than the Pc with premier Pro . But I did like FC ( it was just not so responsive moving around in the program ) So I was hopeing that with the new 24 inch imac being that they are suppose to be about 50 percent faster and it now has FW 800 plus a better GPU card .That i would find using FC for HDV as smooth as it was or close to it as it was on the PC …
I have no other need to go beyond HDV or at the most DVC pro hd ..I have to admit getting a 24 inch display sounds realy nice for that price .,,,Although
if I have to get a Mac pro than so be it .I would just hate to find I spent the extra cash and did not need too !
thanks again for any comments
steve
supervdo@optonline.net

[Nate]

Time is money and frustration. If you can afford the new Mac Pro’s get one…. And enjoy the extra time fishing or playing golf or what ever….. Make sure that you get a great certified array also… I have been working with a Dual gig Mac for the last three years and it has been great cause I got a big Medea array to feed it more than it would ever want…..

You can’t cheap out on gear, it will always embarass you at the wrong moment.

[Supervideo]

Thanks for your responce it was well taken ,
I just came home from the NYC Apple store at 1 am with Mac pro in hand !
I am setting it up now !

[Ron James]

[edit] “You can’t cheap out on gear, it will always embarass you at the wrong moment.”

That’s funny. I have an iMac Intel at home and work on several different G5 towers for work, but my iMac is the snappiest and fastest at rendering at the moment. Don’t underestimate the iMac’s, especially if you can’t afford a full blown system right away.

These iMac Intels are the best bang for your buck EVER, no matter what people say. Try it and see for yourself.

Nice that they added FW800 now.