Compressor 4 and FCP7 (not FCPX)

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Compressor 4 and FCP7 (not FCPX)

Posted by Flo De haan on June 30, 2011 at 2:26 pm

Hi, all

One week after FCPX, bought it, and I’ve decided to stay at 7.

However, I didn’t buy Compressor 4 yet, same is true for Motion.
I’d like to know what are the pros and cons when I seriously want to keep using FCP7 alone, to install these 2 new components.

Does Compressor 4 work with FCP7? Can I use all advantages?

Is it worth the money when staying at 7 anyway?

thanks in advance.

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I use:
Hardware:
MacBookPro 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
L2 Cache 2MB – Bus Speed 8MHZ
NVIDEA GeForce 8600M GT VRAM 512 MB

Software:
OS Version 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard)
FCP7
Adobe Production Premium CS5.5
AVID MC5.5
I own FCPX but refuse to use it.
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Jamie Franklin replied 14 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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Noah Kadner
June 30, 2011 at 2:55 pm

Wouldn’t do you much good- Compressor 4’s main purpose is to give more control over transcoding as well as enable more background encoding from FCP X. As a standalone program, it’s changed very little from Compressor 3. So if you are staying with FCP 7 there’s not much point in getting Compressor 4 1.0 as of right now.

Noah

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Flo De haan
June 30, 2011 at 3:06 pm

Thanks man. that was quick and clear!

I’ll stay at 3 for now. Hopefully when FinalCutPro X Pro comes out, I’ll change my mind.

*****
I use:
Hardware:
MacBookPro 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
L2 Cache 2MB – Bus Speed 8MHZ
NVIDEA GeForce 8600M GT VRAM 512 MB

Software:
OS Version 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard)
FCP7
Adobe Production Premium CS5.5
AVID MC5.5
I own FCPX but refuse to use it.
*****
Javier Sanchez
June 30, 2011 at 4:37 pm

i have tried an compresor 4 and motion 5 don’t work with fcp7
Flo De haan
June 30, 2011 at 4:43 pm

Ok, that’s one more reason not to buy those. Yet.

*****
I use:
Hardware:
MacBookPro 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
L2 Cache 2MB – Bus Speed 8MHZ
NVIDEA GeForce 8600M GT VRAM 512 MB

Software:
OS Version 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard)
FCP7
Adobe Production Premium CS5.5
AVID MC5.5
I own FCPX but refuse to use it.
*****
Jamie Franklin
June 30, 2011 at 5:30 pm

I think the real benefit here is if you want to take an essentially 1200$ add-on for 50$ now and add it to several machines to maybe farm…probably reaching…

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