how much memory can FinalCutStudio use ?

[David Roth weiss]

Motion is the real memory hog — throw RAM at it if you have some spare Euros sitting around. However, tests have shown that 2.5gb of RAM is the golden spot for everything else (FCP) — meaning that there are some benefits to going above 2.5 to 4 or 6gb, but those benefits are relatively small and not worth the extra expense in most cases when looking from the standpoint of cost/benefit analysis.

DRW

[Andrex71]

thanks for your answer David !

what about my 1st question ? can you confirm that difference between Mac and PC ?

regards

[David Roth weiss]

I’m more of a film and video person, so I’ll leave that one to the computer geeks…

[Mark Maness]

That’s easy…. if you want to crunch numbers, a PC will do. If you want to do video or digital photography, a Mac is best. So, PCs are perfect for math like Excel and complex games, but video has to be done on a Mac. PCs cannot compete with a Mac when it comes to video.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Kevin Monahan]

PCs cannot compete with a Mac when it comes to video.
Rather a blanket statement, that’s really untrue. A lot of videographics programs run better on the PC. After Effects and 3D apps especially.

Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com

[David Roth weiss]

[Wayne Carey] “So, PCs are perfect for math like Excel and complex games, but video has to be done on a Mac.”

Rubbish!!! Wayne, there are many, many people working on PCs in this field. In fact, there are many more on PCs than on MACs. There are excellent tools on both platforms that are in many cases very much platform specific. If you walk into ILM, Blur Studios, Digital Domaine, or any other major players, you will find both MACs and PCs all over the place, with pros using the very best tools they have for each specific task they need to accomplish.

[Annaël Beauchemin]

[Kevin Monahan] “Rather a blanket statement, that’s really untrue. A lot of videographics programs run better on the PC. After Effects and 3D apps especially”

it’s funny, I consider After Effects to be *the* app that runs equaly great on mac than on pc. It’s amazingly stable and performance is globaly very similar.

Combustion, on the opposite, runs better on PC… and mac version 4 is lagging since like 8 months…

[Bret Williams]

I think obviously this guy was just egging people on. He couldn’t possibly have believed PCs are better for math. 🙂

[David Roth weiss]

I don’t know Bret, Wayne cuts fishing bait commercials for the largest company of its type in the world. After watching those wiggling baits full-time for forty hours each week, I’m guessing he has a few loose cogs tumbling around in his wheel house.

[Andy Mees]

1. No. Tiger ( or Mac in general ) gives ram/CPU resources to all active processes.
2. No. FCP can address only 2.5GB RAM … see https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93844