iMac OK for FCP Studio 2?

[Jeff Carpenter]

It depends on what happened. It’s possible for something to become broken and corupt in a way that a re-format fixes it. It’s also possible a drive has died and must be replaced.

In either case, yes, the data is gone.

For me, it makes more sense to risk the occational re-capture than it is to try and back-up 2 TB of video files every night. If you work in live TV, the reverse it probably true. It all comes down to your workflow and what matters more for you.

You can, for example, RAID in such a way that your two 1-TB drives turn into a single 1 TB drive. In that case, if either drive dies, you’re fine. Everything’s mirrored on the other. You just have to replace the 1 drive that failed and you never have to stop working.

[Don Walker]

[Shane Ross] “FCP will run, but Motion will be slow. This is a consumer computer you are buying, and a professional application, so bear that in mind. It will run, but not as well as it would on a MacPro or Mac Book Pro. “
Shane, beside the “express 34” slot, what else is there in a Mac Book Pro that makes it better than an IMac? all other parameters being equal.
Don Walker
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John 3:16

[Shane Ross]

Looks like they improved the Graphics card, so Motion will be better.

But don’t underestimage the Express34 slot. That is a HUGE thing. Why? You can add another firewire bus with a firewire card, or connect an eSATA drive. This will allow you to attach a capture device like the AJA I/o, I/O HD or Matrox MXO2 and be able to capture uncompressed formats…and many formats that are not capturable vua firewire. With the iMac, you have ONE firewire bus, so you are limited to firewire drives, and the firewire drive and camera you attach will be sharing the same bus and you run into the possibility of dropped frames when capturing. Because you are overtaxing the firewire bus. Not to say that it isn’t possible to do this…it is. You just are open to more chances of it occurring.

The iMac will work, it just isn’t the best option for it. I might use one as a work station if I had another station where I captured footage and exported. But I wouldn’t rely on one professionally on its own.

But that’s me.

Shane

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