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Powerbook and Final Cut Suite
Newbie question. Am I going to be disappointed with a brand new Powerbook, fully loaded with 2GB of RAM, running the new FCP Suite? I’ve read one should get a separate bus to run an external HardDrive and Camera simultaneously. I will only be working with DV at this time. Any comments ?
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Final Cut 5 is really going to want dual G5 processors to really run to it’s potential. FCP 4 works fine on a Powerbook, but it’s much slower than running on a G5. I believe with FCP 5 there will be an even more pronounced performance gap between the Dual G5’s a single G4 Powerbook.
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Jan,
Check to see the videocard RAM, order the top as a custom build, or you’ll miss with Motion.
Also a LaCie fire-Wire card will give you another F-W bus, = no dropped frames for DV capture to F-W drives.
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Thanks for the advice. I think I want go for it. I need a portable editing suite and I don’t feel like investing in Avid, so this looks like the way to go. Plus, I’m dying to leave the world of pc’s.
Jan
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I’ve had no problems with dropped frames as long as you’re using a external media drive connected via FW800. (I know, I know it’s all on the same bus) but for some reason things just seem to run smoothly for me this way. I cannot vouch for how FCP 5 will behave on a powerbook. I would think it would still be fine as long as you’re just doing DV.
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