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PowerBook 867Mhz Enough Muscle?
I may need to do some editing in the field soon. I’ve got a PowerBook G4 from 2002, with an 867Mhz processor, and 256 RAM. Is this going to be enough to run FCP 4.5 to do some simple cutting? Or will I get horribly bogged down? I realize I should up the RAM, but what will I need to get a simple job done that is not efffects-heavy? Thanks as always. – Rob
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FCP 4.5 HD won’t even open with less than 386 MB RAM
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Yes, try to get the RAM as high as you can. Other than that, you should be ok. Is this just DV footage? Turn off real-time rendering and just render things when you need to and you’ll be fine to cut video together. Once you get into color correcting and other effects that need a lot of rendering you might be less than happy, but it can certainly do those tasks too if you have the time.
But for just cutting? Yeah, no problem.
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I would invest into a better powerbook/tower before dropping a grand on fcp.
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