Your Ultimate FCP System

[Michael Bloodgood]

Fastest Mac Pro with 16GB RAM (It’s cheap now, why not?)

Quadro 5600 Graphics card (I do a lot of MAYA)

Four internal 15K SAS drives hardware RAID as the main system drive (many will argue that this is unreliable but the one hard drive failure that I’ve had was swapped out and the RAID rebuilt it without interrupting my work and besides, AE with all my plugins loads in two seconds and hard drive buffering actually works)

Kona 3

ATTO quad 4Gb FC card

24TB custom built RAID (Fedora server with the RAID partitioned under EXT-2, a file format that OSX can read and write to) I can build this for under $12k with transfer rates lingering around 1800-2000 MBps.

Probably the TV logic monitor

Yamaha DM1000 mixer with the AES/EBU option card (I love that console)

7 JBL LSR4300s

I like building my own desks but that Anthro looks sweet

That about sums up the perfect system. I left out a bunch of the little things as they are pretty much mandatory. (Actually the mixer and speakers are for my audio guy)