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Minimum Spec – Real World Examples please!
I have a G5 single processor 1.6 with 1.25 gigs of Ram and an ATI 128MB
9600 XT AGP card. It runs Studio V1 well but I am wondering if it can run all of Studio 2’s apps? I’ve checked the minimum specs page at Apple and all looks promising although Color seems to suggest I need a
2.5GHZ or faster Power Mac G5 Quad.Has anyone tried to install and run Studio 2 on a machine as basic as this 1.6?! I am hoping to upgrade soon but only when I get in work to pay for it 😉
I will mainly be working with DV, HDV and Sony EX3 long GOP footage.
Thanks.
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I have FCS 2 on a G4 1.67 Mac Book.
Final Cut is fine.
Motion is too slow for anything but basic lower thirds.
DVD Studio Pro is fine.
Compressor is so slow as to be almost unusable for anything longer than five minutes.
Color, of course, does not work, or even install.
DV works very well. HDV and other long GOP formats are painfully slow.
If you are working in those formats in FCS 1, and are getting acceptable performance, I suspect you will still be OK with FCS 2.
Best,
Tom Meegan
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Thanks for feedback. Now the only other question is will one be able to upgrade from an upgrade i.e when Final Cut Studio 3 eventually comes out! Mind you, this may be geared towards dual processor imacs and above with all the new codecs that are floating around that demand decent processors…maybe Studio 2 is all that will run on my retired greyhound of a G5…
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