FCP on a Mac Mini

[Les Kaye]

Most likely an issue with Motion’s video requirements, since FCP worked on the previous generation (and surprisingly okay).

[Arnie Schlissel]

If you look at the specs on the Intel based mini (which sounds like the ‘early 2006’ model to me), you’ll see that it has integrated video, using an Intel chipset & shared memory with the system RAM. I think the graphic subsystem is just to low end to support FCP & Motion.

Arnie
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[Brian Pitt]

I agree with the previous posts. The only program in the studio that won’t run on the mini is Motion. I have the entire studio and a mac mini (G4 – 1.42 superdrive). I edit on a beefy dual G5 at work, but I can’t afford one of those for home use. However, I have edited countless projects on the mini without any problems at all on FCP5. I have also authored DVDs with DVD Studio Pro and edited audio with Soundtrack. All of those apps work without a problem on the G4 mini…so I assume that they will run even better with the universal Studio on the Intel minis…