Considering FC Studio Purchase & Need Some Info

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Mark Job] “No, no, this came from this thread and not from any rumour site.”

Egadds! The Cow is now a Mac rumor site!

Arnie
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[Dave Hardy]

Who knows, the recession could throw a monkey wrench into everyones plans. Intel may not have the processors shipping in Dec. Until the development community lean how to adapt their software to access more than 2 processors & until the OS becomes totally 64 bit (Snow Leopard), having more than 6 gig of
Ram is not too great a concern. Final Cut max is 4.5 gig of ram. So any iMac should be fine for you as a learner system.

Buy what you need for your work today. 2009 providing the recession doesn’t get in the way promises to be the largest leap forward in technology in the past 20 yrs. So buy what you need for the short term & plan for the major purchase when the warrantee run out.

Dave Hardy

[David Soriano]

I too use a SD DPS system, 8.0. Love it, but am looking to move to HD editing with my EX-1. I am looking into the Mac FCP system. Is there a big change between the two? Any thoughts?

thanks

[Mark Job]

Hi David:
At this point I’m certainly no expert on Final Cut Pro (But hope to learn it and use it). I do know the DPS systems quite well, since I used my DPS Perception RT for over 11 years. The biggest difference you will see compared to DPS is the absence of really quick realtime cutting and transitions on the timeline. Also, DPS is hardware accelerated allowing you to use it in a relatively slow PC system and get total realtime performance, while FCP runs only on MACS. The greatest advantage of the DPS Paradigm is you are never at the mercy of the system bus ! I understand version 10 of Velocity HD will allow the user to take advantage of both when it comes to rendering with a choice to go hardware based, or use software based rendering.

Mark

[David Soriano]

i hear ya. I have the Velocity, and love the stability of it. I thought about going proprietary HD, like another DPS system, but i need to get trained up ona more broadly used format, for my career purposes. I have 5K to spend on a mac, and will probably get a Mac Pro.

I see myself being a bit dissapointed with performance, considering we have been using a hardware based system. I just want to at least know that i can do real time cut and dissolves with FCP in a Mac Pro environment.

thanks again