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Least expensive Mac for FCP X
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[Scott Sheriff] “Old school online million dollar linear bay
.04*$1,000,000=$40,000 per day-this doesn’t work out.
The actual rate was $4,000 per day, or $500 per hr.
Clearly the million dollar bay isn’t pulling it’s weight, since it earned $4K per day, and not 40K.”An afterthought I had on this was the difference in lifespan between the million dollar online bay, and todays NLE’s might explain some of this discrepancy.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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Entry level 27″ IMAC would be the best/cheapest way to go FCP X.
cheers
JohnG -
Thank you, John, for answering my question!
Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
part-time instructor lighting/camera
Academy of Art University/Film and Video (grad school)
https://www.RickWiseDP.com -
Thank you for answering my question!
Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
part-time instructor lighting/camera
Academy of Art University/Film and Video (grad school)
https://www.RickWiseDP.com -
Well, I finally found online Apple Chat (I’m a PC guy and totally unfamiliar with the Mac World.) It turns out that an entry-level iMac will work just fine with FCP X. Of course, the larger screen and faster processor would be so much better….
So for roughly the old cost of FCP, $1,500, you can now buy an iMac and the editing software.
Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
part-time instructor lighting/camera
Academy of Art University/Film and Video (grad school)
https://www.RickWiseDP.com -
I would also recommend checking out the ‘refurb’ imacs. You will save ~10-15%. I have purchased Apple refurb MAC’s and can’t tell the difference from new.
Another option would be an Apple ‘epp’ store. i.e. if you’re a government worker or perhaps you work for a company that has ‘epp’ access. Either epp or refurb will save you some bucks.
cheers
JohnG -
Thanks again, John. I will check refurbs. I don’t work for the gov., but I do work part time for a University and so qualify for educational discount — but they are very small. For the entry level iMac you save all of $50.
Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
part-time instructor lighting/camera
Academy of Art University/Film and Video (grad school)
https://www.RickWiseDP.com -
[Rick Wise] “Well, I finally found online Apple Chat (I’m a PC guy and totally unfamiliar with the Mac World.) It turns out that an entry-level iMac will work just fine with FCP X. Of course, the larger screen and faster processor would be so much better….
So for roughly the old cost of FCP, $1,500, you can now buy an iMac and the editing software.”
Rick,
Sarcasm aside, I answered you. Sorry if there was TMI to see the info was in there.
That is what I said, first post after your question:
“300 bucks for Movie Hero, I mean FCP X
1199 for a cheap new iMac
1648.90 total inc CA sales taxGood news. It will only take 110 hours to pay off the computer and app at 15 bucks an hour.
Now, if you can keep your system busy for a regular 40 hour week, that will pull in $600. Or $2,400 a month. Or $28,800 a year gross.
Figure about a 32% total tax hit in Cali, and you can net $19,584. Of course you’ll have to do the marketing, billing and system work on your own time just to make that, if this is the future rate for X.
Get a roommate or two, don’t own a car, skip the health insurance, lots of Top Ramen, $19,500 is doable, right?”X is a really tiny little program, one file, not much bigger than…wait for it…iMovie! It will run on anything they are currently selling. People have reported running it on unqualified hardware, people have reported running it on hackintoshes. If your machine will run iMovie, and has SL, it will probably run X.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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Well, if your math is correct, editors are doomed to poverty. I suspect things won’t actually shake out this way. There will be the $15/hour jobs, but so what? In camera work, we have a similar situation, where lots of gigs pay next to nothing. They are all entry-level work, and great opportunities for the upcoming filmmaker. As one of the old timers who cut his teeth on actual film and loved it, I no longer can draw $3,500 to $4,000 a day to shoot commercials, and even high-end corporate has dropped. But not to the levels you describe. I suspect editors too will find spaces in between the old highs and the new lows.
Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
part-time instructor lighting/camera
Academy of Art University/Film and Video (grad school)
https://www.RickWiseDP.com -
[Rick Wise] “I suspect editors too will find spaces in between the old highs and the new lows.”
You’re right. I suspect a few will. Just like a few of those kids in the local basketball court will get to the NBA, or a few of those local garage bands playing at the local dive will be able to make some cash. The 1%.
The question is, what will the going rate for the other 99% be next week, next month, next year.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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