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Help me convince a friend’s boss to go FCP on a Mac instead of cheap PC NLE
I am an avid FCP user and would like some additional support from the COW Community to help back up a friend in the industry. He needs to justify the purchase of an FCP system to his boss. Their format will be mini DV. His boss wants to buy a cheap, PC based NLE system, but yet he is expecting a quality product. Any comments supporting the purchase of a G5 with FCP would be highly appreciated. Any recommendations on minimum system requirements would also help.
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Robb,
Boy, that’s a tough one. The fact is, a decent dual PC and Premiere Pro can be a pretty good setup, especially for DV.
I would think your own experience with FCP should be enough to sell him.
But, you could always toss up the thought that the Production Studio is a pretty powerful package, depending of course on their needs. If they’re just doing simple cuts and not a lot of multicam stuff, you may have a tough sell.
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If their needs are simple and Premiere Pro is just as capable of dealing with them as FCP, discussing the strengths of the Mac platform over Windows (stability, security, etc.) may be the better tactic.
The superior value of the FCP Studio package may offset the savings of going with a beige box PC.
Also steer the PC vs. Mac comparison to equivalent name-brand Windows boxes (e.g. Dell, HP, IBM), not clones from small time outfits with lower support and longevity.
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[Paul Kyte] ”
The superior value of the FCP Studio package may offset the savings of going with a beige box PC”Actually, the value of Adobe’s package is pretty good. Especially if the rest of the company is all PC based, switching to Mac wouldn’t make much financial sense.
If the company is all Mac based already, the combality issue is a good point. Otherwise, I don’t see the necessity to go FCP/Mac if he’s actually found a decent PC solution for less.
Out of curious, which PC NLE does he want to use?
-T
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[Tae] “Out of curious, which PC NLE does he want to use?”
He’s thinking about a Pinnacle Liquid Edition.
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Tell them AVID just bought Pinnacle & who knows what he is going to get after the transistion is complete! (although this comment might have to do something about me losing my support with the Pinnacle Cinewave… wink, sniffle, cry, haha)
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[Smooth] “Tell them AVID just bought Pinnacle”
We’re in the same boat. I used to be a hardcore AVID fan and editor till I made the switch to FCP about 4 years ago. Now I’m getting ready to give up on Pinnacle.
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