[Mikellanes]

Well, I have been running Motion 2 all night on my PowerBook G4, 1.5GB Ram, OS 10.4.1

This is used for editing DVCAM only footage, and I can say Motion 2 definitely feels faster on this Powerbook now.

I only played with FCP 5 for about 10 minutes, as I didn’t have a cam to pull in footage with me at the time.

Strange thing was I got the Final Cut Studio upgrade, and my finally cut 4.5 was an upgrade from a full version 3.0, but it never asked for any of the previous serial numbers (and I didn’t have it installed already…)

[Mikellanes]

Final Cut Pro 5: RT Extreme
Dynamic RT Extreme delivers high-quality, real-time effects in every format, including uncompressed HD.
It Dynamilcally adjusts the quality on the fly, they have a demo running 16 streams of HD that drop the quality to keep it in RT, then back to 1 stream and the quality jumps back to 100%

Final Cut Pro 5: Multicam Editing
Powerful multicam editing tools let you cut video from multiple sources in real time.
This looks really cool, and seems a much better implementation that I have seen on other systems

Final Cut Pro 5: Native HDV
Native editing lets you work in any format, from DV and HDV to IMX, DVCPRO HD and uncompressed SD and HD.
This is great for anyone with a HDV format camera, AND it really lets you edit on any frame.