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FCP Studio 2
I am considering going to FCP Studio 2. My workflow will consist of mainly capturing, 720P HDV footage via firewire from an JVC HD100U, doing basic editing, color correcting, color grading, and then taking a Hard Drive with the file to a post house for final output to DVCPRO HD and Beta SP. I will, of course burn DVD’s for personal distribution, etc.
My budget is not huge… here are the two systems I was considering.
Option #1 – MacPro Tower
Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4GB (4 x 1GB)
500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
External Firewire Media Drive (1 TB)
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
One 16x SuperDrive
22 Wide LCD Display
Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse
Mac OS X – U.S. English—————————————-
Option #2 – 24 Inch IMac
2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
3GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM – 3x1Gb
500GB Serial ATA Drive
External Firewire Drive (1 TB)
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB SDRAM
SuperDrive 8X (DVD+R DL/DVD -
3 Replies
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Good things about option 1:
More power for compressing videos
Expandable internal drives to make future RAID
Ability to add capture card for monitoring HDMI or HDSDI (Intensity card is only $250 and can be connected to a consumer HDTV)Good things about option 2:
Portable (not like a laptop, but you can still take it somewhere without too much effort)
Dual monitors for the price of a single monitorSo do you want more power and the ability to add an inexpensive capture card or portability and savings?
-Russ
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So both options can handle the workflow nicely? What kind of performance can I expect?
Jason
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[UnknwnProd] “What kind of performance can I expect?”
I’m not sure how to answer that question. Look at http://www.barefeats.com. There isn’t a direct comparison between the two, but it would help.
If it’s a long term set-up, I’d personally lean towards the Mac Pro because I’d want to expand it with capture cards and new graphics cards like the ATI X1900 XT (a very cool card for motion and color.)
Both systems will do what you want though.
-Russ
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