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FCP on a macbook
I am thinking of buying a new laptop- I can only afford the basic black 13 inch macbook, will the new final cut studio run smooth on that machine? 1gb of memory? 160gb hard drive?
or is the macbook pro the only way to go when running those programs?
-Andrew
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The 13″ Mac Book has a shared graphics processor which borrows from the installed 1GB RAM. According to Final Cut Studio Specs: “Final Cut Studio is not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors” So I’m not sure FCP Studio will work at all on the Mac Book- (Can anyone else back me up on this!?!?)
A Mac Book Pro will have no problem running Final Cut Pro though.
Simon -
Final Cut Pro 6, LiveType, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack and Compressor all run just fine on my first generation Macbook (with 2GB of RAM). Of course, you will want to install the additional media content on an external Firewire HD. Motion can be used to make simple animations with acceptable performance. I lauched Color soon after installing FCP Studio 2 and performance was sluggish, as expected. Recently when I try launching it, however, (perhaps after applying the update?), I get a message that Color requires at least 128MB of VRAM and that I only have 64MB. The only option from there is to quit the program. I would never use a macbook for critical color corrrection anyway but I was hoping to learn the basics of the program while on the go.
MediaKobo
Tokyo, Japan
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