FCP Macbook Pro???

[Michael Sacci]

Yes FCS2 works great on a MBP (I have a 1st Gen and the new ones are a lot faster).

I would say nether is the standard, both have there place and users. It is never wrong to learn both. If you are have the time, money and desire to learn both go for it. For me it would be a bit confusing trying to learn how to do the same thing 2 different ways would make my head hurt. Learning both would probably be helpful if you what to market yourself as an in-house editor,”oh I can cut on either”

Before you buy a MBP I would ask if you need it to be portable. You get a lot more power for your bucks with desktop. But a new MBP can handle pretty much anything out there at this time especially with the AJA IoHD.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Michael Sacci] “But a new MBP can handle pretty much anything out there at this time especially with the AJA IoHD.”

No doubt. If you want to learn FCP, picking up the software and an MBP is an awesome place to start. It’s exactly how I got started with FCP. It will surprise you how much you can get done on a laptop these days.

Jeremy

[Jayson Rahmlow]

I’m running fcp on my macbook pro Core 2 duo no problem. It’s rendering scenes as I write this.

Yesterday, I used fcp on a desktop mac with a keyboard and a mouse and I actually like using the macbook pro’s touchpad and keyboard better than the desktop’s mouse and keyboard. (with the mbp touchpad you can drag two fingers up or down and navigate the timeline.)

also, I used avid before this on a desktop pc. I miss some things about editing in avid (specifically it being keyboard centric) but the final cut suite makes other things like dvd creation and compression very easy. So I’ll say it was good to learn on avid because it makes me use the keyboard as often as possible, instead of the mouse. Which makes editing much quicker.

jayson
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