Most current FCP that will run on Dual 500 G4?

[Bret Williams]

I run it on a dual 1ghz G4. If you’re running DVCam it feels no different than a G5 in general operation. Big renders will be slower, but that’s about it. Check the specs on the apple site, but I’d think it would run fine. I do have a friend that plays around on it with his dual G4 500mhz. Haven’t heard any complaints.

[George Loch]

Is that 4.5 you are referring to or 5?

-gl

[Boyd Mccollum]

I did a quick search on the Cow regarding system requirements for FCP 4.5. Here’s an answer:

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Note: copied from apple Web site.
System Requirements
_ Macintosh computer with 350MHz or faster PowerPC G4 or G5 processor and AGP graphics card
_ Mac OS X v10.3.2 or later

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Looks like you’d squeeze it. Check to see what graphics card it has. (I hope performance isn’t a major requiement 🙂 As for FCP 5, it wants at least 867MHz.

Here’s a link to the current specs:https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/specs.html

[George Loch]

Thanks for the info Boyd. 4.5 looks like it will work.

-gl

[Boyd Mccollum]

I also did a quick search over at the Apple Discussion boards – I believe the information is correct (I just worry because my old 4.5 manuals are at another location, and I’d hate for someone to drop $$ based on this information without double checking.:-) If you are purchasing the computer for this, you might want to install 4.5 and run it first to make sure it works.

BTW, don’t forget to do the crossgrade (you don’t have to upgrade at this time and you can make copies of your 4.5 disks before you send them in case you need to reinstall 4.5 on this computer). But at $199, moving from FCP 4.5 to the full studio bundle is a great deal and is good only through Dec 20. The bundle might come in handy for the filmmaker down the line, especially DVDSP for distributing DVDs.