Final Cut Pro – Power Mac G5

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

Ridiculous!

Somebody’s feeding you a line of bull.

[Shane Ross]

If you have any specific issues that you’d like to have us help you with, we can see what we can do. But a blanket statement like that doesn’t tell us anything.

People have 5-8 year old machines running older versions of FCP without a hitch. Others get the latest and greatest and have problems due to inexperience with the platform and the editing application. But a well maintained machine, and knowledge of the editing app and you can have a humming machine. I, and others here, do fine. If it was nothign but problems, we wouldn’t be using it.

Shane

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Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

This is obviously a TROLL POSTER.

It is the first post from “spundane.”

None of the descriptions or complaints make any computer sense.
Ever hear of “wearing out” a mother board… due to wedding video editing?

Laughable.

And who is the “he” the poster mentions.

I also say “Ridiculous.”

[Spundane]

My partner had an authorized Mac Tech come to look at his G5. My partner said he had testing equipment to test the mother board. And yes this was my first post. One of the problem is that his harddrive will not mount. We thought maybe it was the hard drive but according to mac tech the hard drives where fine it’s the mother board and processor that was on it’s last leg.

It sounded kind of strange to me that’s why I want to put it out there to see if anyone else has had the same problem.

Thank you for all your input positive or not

Richard

[Walter Biscardi]

[spundane] “Anybody out there Please Advice.”

No clue, your post makes no sense.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Rich Rubasch]

I had an onld G4 that behaved badly and seemed like the mother board or hard drive but it was the power supply. I did have a mother board go out on a G4 I bought on ebay…that was a bummer. It still sits in the corner for parts.

I have two older dual 2.7 G5s and they are running perfectly like the day they wer purchased….if you’re having problems I feel your pain.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Jim Tuchschmidt]

I had a Powerbook G4 that would not mount the hard drive. When I went to boot, the computer would not be able to find the OS. I took it to the Apple Store and they ultimately determined that it was a bad motherboard and replced it free of charge (I had Apple Care). I doubt this had anything to do with use; just a defective MB.

[Uli Plank]

Such things can happen, but they have nothing to do with use by software. There are quite a few electronic parts that are ageing, condensors in power supplies in particular, but they’d age in a computer being switched on and idling along just the same.

I can’t confirm that Macs are worse in this respect than PCs, actually they are better. I’ve been working in a polytechnical institute and in an arts university for many years, both with lots of PCs and Macs, and I ‘ve seen more PCs die than Macs over those years.

Sorry for your experience,

Uli

BTW, an UPS with surge filter can extend a computer’s life in critical regions.

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Mark Maness]

I’m wanna drop in my two cents worth…

I’m afraid that was told by a salesperson/tech support that his system was getting old and “wearing out”. That is the oldest tactic in the book with sales and people who are completely unknowledgeable about the inner workings of a computer. To survive in this day and age, you really need to have a good working knowledge of computers and how they work.

Now… In their defense… Computers that work hard and long every day will not last as long as those that have occasional usage. Programs that severly task the processors causing the fans to run at higher speeds will have some affect on the life of the computer. I’m sure everyone here knows the expression, “heat kills”. This is very , very true. If your computer in not in a wel ventilated area that is cool (around 72 degrees and lower, preferably around 68 degrees), you computer will have more problems and issues down the road.

Here’s the thing… Your computer costs and the profits from you company should be weighed when deciding you computer upgrades. In our business, computers are cheap and easily replaced. Hard drives and backups are not.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com

[Spundane]

Thanks to every one for your response. I’m wasn’t trying to say pc’s are better than mac.
In fact I own a G3 laptop that has given me years of great computing. I just found it weird that the mac tech would say that using the mac for editing would cause all the problems. I wanted to ask FCP users if they had the same problem because that ws the main software that we where using. Once againg I thank everyone for their input on my question and I apologize if anyone thought I was trying to pit one type of computer against the other.

Regards
Richard