James Gleason
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Thank you for the input! I’m waiting until Steve’s Keynote today as I’m still holding out hope for Blu-Ray in the Mac Pro (not to mention DVDSP)! Only 30 minutes to go…
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Walter, the local Apple “Genius” and Apple’s site says that the NVIDIA 8800GT is the better card for “motion graphics…rendering…”, but it pushes out my order to 5 weeks! If Color is not your main app would you still go with the stock ATI graphics card? I realize that I could always order the card later, but the money is here now and I’d like to get this thing ordered. Besides, I may not have the money later!
Both cards look like they work fine with FCStudio 2, but I’m interested to hear your feedback.
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It’s now called “Log and Transfer.” It’s the same once you get there.
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How about Camera POV?
http://www.profoundeffects.com/products/camerapov/It looks like it could work for your need.
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If you can, I would wait until Apple announces FCP6 at NAB this Sunday (the rumor) and see what to see what their requirements are for real time. As they say, “Time is money.”
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“Would it be a good machine for professional HD editing?” Absolutely, as many people are using this exact same machine (or even older G4’s) to edit. Your real question is whether you should invest in old (some would say “obsolete”) hardware or spend the money for a newer Intel machine (present and future technology).
It’s your call, if it’s all about money, then buy whatever you can afford. I usually keep my hardware for 3 years before updating. My last machine was a G4/Dual 1.25 Tower. I choose to bypass the G5 line and wait for what I thought would be the G6 but became the Intel processor.
The same goes for software. Why update if it works? I usually only update my FCP suite at each new level and let everything else jump a number before investing cash in an ever changing world. -
Sorry, I forgot to answer your question: I have a MacBook Pro 2.16 Intel Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of ram. Do you actually have the iMac or are you weighing the options of one over the other? I like the portablity of the MBP-I can work on project anywhere.
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My MBP simply renders quicker. The disk speed is slower, but I’m not too concerned about that at the moment. With the Intel chip I get much quicker renders-and that’s worth it all to me. Don’t get me wrong, the 20″ iMac (PPC) is a great machine (much larger display), but I like the portablitiy of my MBP.
Both machines “suffer” from the fact that they can’t be expanded internally like the towers can. -
I have this exact machine at work and it runs FCP 5.1.4 just fine. It’s not as fast as my MBP, but it does the job well.
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I’m going to ask the stock question, “are you looking at this through the video that is output to a monitor, or in the canvas/viewer window in FCP?” If you’re trusting the rendered image shown in any FCP window, you will not seeing the quality you expect. It must be seen from a TV/Monitor to judge your quality (and color). It may be basic and below your user level, but it happens to the best of us at times.