FCP5.1 on non-intel machine–trouble ahead?

[John Pale]

[skaren] “I heard that machines that are not running off an intel chip will have a lot of trouble with Final Cut Pro 5.1 and beyond. Is that right? I recently opened a project on that version of FCp and am considering just exporting the project via xml so I can continue to work out of my regular G5+ FCP 5.0. Any pointers?”

No. Universal means Universal. FCP runs fine on both architectures. I think in 4 years you might have to worry about this, as PowerPC machines become less common.

I would strongly urge you to upgrade your G5 to FCP 5.1.x…its not just for Intel machines. There are many bug fixes and all future software upgrades will require you to be using at least 5.1.

[Zak Mussig]

We have 1 Intel Mac Pro and 3 G5 PowerMacs all running 5.1.x… no problems. John is right, Universal is for PPC and Intel. 5.1 is a good update to do, even on the PPC architecture.

Zak

[Steve Connor]

Someone is talking rubbish – 5.1 and it’s latest version ROCKS on my Dual G5

[Walter Biscardi]

[skaren] “I heard that machines that are not running off an intel chip will have a lot of trouble with Final Cut Pro 5.1 and beyond”

You’ve gotten bad information. FCP 5.1 is Universal, as in “This works on PowerPC and Intel machines.” We’re running 5.1.2 on G5 Dual 2.0’s, G5 Quad, Mac Pro, 17″ PowerBook, Mac Mini, you name it, FCP is running on it.

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[Christian Glawe]

5.1 runs A-OK on my (now antiquated) PowerBook….

[Craig Loco]

I am even running 5.1.2 on my 733 G4 with 640 mb of RAM !!!!

(offline editing) and it works a treat

[Icvdave]

I have a new Intel Machine and so far my experience has been that the Intel machine works much poorer that the Quad I have. with the new machine, running 2 gig of ram,(4 gig made the machine lock up!)kona 3, and Ciprico Fibre Array, we can’t even run to layers of DVCPRO HD footage with a simple transition. It requires a render. I can run the same sequence off a firewire drive on my quad with 1 gb of ram, and it handles it flawlessly.

Not impressed with the Intel machine