FCP on an iMac Intel

[Kevin Monahan]

It’ll “work”, but it’s better to have a tower so you can have a beefier video card, which is good “future-proofing” for Pro Apps. A tower also allows you to add additional FireWire 400 and 800 ports. In an iMac you are forced to daisy chain, overloading ports which can lead to dropped frames. An iMac has only one dual core proc, the new towers will likely have multiple dual procs. With that info, “Up to you…”

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[Ron James]

Depends what you want to do?? The new iMac’s are amazing machines. I find them more responsive than a lot of G5’s I work on. But, like Kevin says, your options are limited. But it would definitely be a great workstation for cutting, DVD authoring and many many other things. Finishing in HD, though? No.

I bought one to hold me over until the Intel towers come out. I love that the interface is lightning-fast. That’s more important to me, when I’m multitasking and zipping around FCP, than whether or not I can use FW800. But I’m mostly using DV25 right now.

Really, the things are a steal for how well they work. I’ve spent thousands on towers that are just paperweights now.

We’re really sooo spoiled these days ;O)

[Ron James]

Forgot to mention…

You’ll definitely want to max out the RAM to the full 2GB if you get the iMac.

[Darrin]

…thaks guys.

….much appreciated.

Cheers,
Darrin