Recommendation on Intel PowerMac

[Matthew Rogers]

We’re looking at the same thing.
But, I think we’re going to go forward with it.
When we do make the purchase I’ll keep you posted with any news.

-Matt

Matthew Rogers
engine room
Boston, Ma
http://www.engineroomedit.com

[Jeff Carpenter]

1) Make sure you’ve upgraded yourself to Final Cut 5.1

https://www.apple.com/universal/crossgrade/

Earlier versions won’t run on Intel Macs.

2) I understand what you mean, but just so you know “G5 = Not-Intel” so calling something an “intel G5” doesn’t really mean anything. Here’s a handy chart for upgrading the “old” to the “new” in terms of language:
IBM G5 –> Intel Xeon
Powermac —> Mac Pro

3) Assuming #1 is taken care of you should go for the Mac Pro over a G5 machine. I haven’t heard of any major problems yet, but if you’ve waited this long you might as well wait 2 or 3 more weeks. Usually any sort of problems that matter will have surfaced in that amount of time. Check back with us in September just to make sure, but I’m betting that waiting ’till next month should give you a chance to be extra sure.

[Zak Mussig]

Frank,
I’m with Jeff on this one… if you’ve been running on a G4 for this long, and haven’t gone nuts, you should give it another month or so, and see what happens.
I posted on new hardware day that I was skeptical about the Mac Pros, and wanted to wait a while to see how they worked in the real world. That said, I’m writing this on our new quad 3 GHz Mac Pro, which just came in a few hours ago. When the boss says new computer, Zak says yes, sir.

Reiterating what Jeff also said… you’re also looking at a paid software update to the universal version of Final Cut Studio if you don’t have it yet, so make sure you budget for that when you’re buying your new system.

Hope the new setup works out for you,
Zak

[Walter Biscardi]

[Zak Mussig] “Reiterating what Jeff also said… you’re also looking at a paid software update to the universal version of Final Cut Studio if you don’t have it yet, so make sure you budget for that when you’re buying your new system.”

Keep in mind that the $49 Cross Grade offer ends in December I believe. After that, the price will go up, so you really don’t want to wait too long to get the cross grade at this price.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Jeremy Garchow]

ANother thing to keep in mind is that Adobe products are not universal binary…yet. If After Effects/Photoshop/Illustrator is part of your workflow, these programs will use Rosetta (a built in emulation program in OSX) to run on a MacPro along with any other plug ins you might use for FCP. I am waiting for this before purchasing a MacPro. With a Quad you will not have these issues, but it’ll be a G5 and not an intel.

Decisions…decisions.

Jeremy

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“Patience is a virtue”

[Walter Biscardi]

[JeremyG] “f After Effects/Photoshop/Illustrator is part of your workflow, these programs will use Rosetta (a built in emulation program in OSX) to run on a MacPro along with any other plug ins you might use for FCP.”

That’s the big thing I will be testing as soon as the Mac Pro shows up. I plan to do some side by side renders in After Effects with the Quad and the Mac Pro to see what happens.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Jeremy Garchow]

[walter biscardi] “I plan to do some side by side renders in After Effects with the Quad and the Mac Pro to see what happens.”

Cool. Let us (me) know what happens. Maybe I’ll purchase earlier if it works well.

Jeremy