I need advice on upgrading my Macbook Pro

[David Roth weiss]

However Fredy, which noise reduction plugin are you using??? You might be using one that’s a bear…

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

David,
All filters that I’m using are from Red Giant:
Primate Keyer
Magic bullet colorista II
Magic bullet Denoiser

MacBook Pro 17″
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
(2) External HD LaCieMac (400/800 FW and USB)with 500GB -(2) USB External HD Western Digital (in cases) with 750GB
OS X 10.6.5
Final Cut Studio “3”

[David Roth weiss]

[Fredy Schwerdtner] “All filters that I’m using are from Red Giant:
Primate Keyer
Magic bullet colorista II
Magic bullet Denoiser”

You might want to try the demo of the Neat Video Noise Reduction sometime, it’s not nearly the bear to render that Red Giant Denoiser can be.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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[Rafael Amador]

[John Pale] ”
This is true. Keep in mind, people were happily doing Uncompressed HD on G4’s a few years ago…albeit on very fast disk arrays.”
I fully agree with Michael Sacci.
Uncompress are by nature the LESS processing intensive codec: Nothing to de-compress, nothing to compress.
HDs speed is not a problem today , neither RAM. Most of us works with compressed codecs, and more and more with GOPS based stuff. The bottle neck for most people is CPU/GPU.
rafael

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[Walter Soyka]

[Fredy Schwerdtner] “I’m using my MacBook Pro as described on my profiles and FCS on a “Blue Screen” production that has mixed materials from Canon D5 (HD) and a Sony HDV camera.
First I captured everything to Prores 422. So far so good …..
But when I start to apply filters (Chroma Key, Color correction, Denoisers) and increasing the number of tracks, FCP start screaming asking for render. Sometimes, based on experience (not as great as some of you guys), I do things and pray to be ok after rendering some clips. But I can not live like that ! It is frustrating most of the time.”

It might make sense to change your workflow. Perhaps you could handle some of the heavy compositing/effects work in After Effects or Motion, then render the clips out and bring them back into FCP for editorial?

Walter Soyka
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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Thanks David … I will try it ….
I’m using to give a little clean up on actor’s face …. cause nobody is perfect … lol

MacBook Pro 17″
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
(2) External HD LaCieMac (400/800 FW and USB)with 500GB -(2) USB External HD Western Digital (in cases) with 750GB
OS X 10.6.5
Final Cut Studio “3”

[Fredy Schwerdtner]

It’s an ideia ….

MacBook Pro 17″
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
(2) External HD LaCieMac (400/800 FW and USB)with 500GB -(2) USB External HD Western Digital (in cases) with 750GB
OS X 10.6.5
Final Cut Studio “3”