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[Samuel A. Martin] “ny business owners out there, or artists with important input in decision making”
It is a gut wrenching decision to go away from the established to a new horizon, but from a pure production wall clock that equals $$$$$; Final Cut Pro is a winner. As a business owner and an editor who has used AVID and FCP, the cost considerations are monumental, first and then the artistic considerations second.
In both instances Apple’s Final Cut Pro comes out on top every time. Clients don’t really care what tols you are using unless there are delivery issues. Video input issues or output deliveries are the only real hangups.
What customer care about is COST to complete. With the same amount of $$$ spent on one AVID system you could have a 3 bay FCP finishing house and LCD monitors and even a Fiber Channel RAID that hits all three.
In this world we all live in today it is about how fast can you deliver and in how many ways? Multiple platforms allow you to do one task on the first box and then go off to work on the second box. If you are doing compositing on one system, DVD authoring on a second or Log and Capture to a RAID box and editing/finishing on the third system, you have flexibility and if one system goes down, you are not dead.
Them more that editors use Final Cut Pro and adapt from the AVID constrictions, the more they seem to love it.
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Final Cut Pro 5 can access up to 4 Gigs of RAM so the more you have up to 4 Gigs is going to be very helpful. Your 2.3 GHz is faster than the 2.0 GHz G5 that everyone is using so you should be fine.
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There is a PeachpitPress Book for you. Final Cut Pro for AVID editors. It takes you thorugh the very basics and relates every operation to AVIDs terms.
You are an experienced editor, so you just need to learn a new tool. Having used both, you will learn to love the freedom FCP brings to editing.
Check this out:
Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors
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[nevo] “this is not avid bashing just an observation that is becoming clearer by the day!
“It was pretty obvious at NAB that Apple is eating AVID’s shorts. The favorite story by the last day of NAB was that AVID did not have to clean their floor carpeting durng the show once while Apple had to replace theirs every night after the first day.
I spent enought time around the Apple booth to know that lots of editor types came through the AVID booth and stopped at the Apple booth for a very long and hard look at the Studio.
Soundtrack Pro is the BIG hit of the softwares at NAB from the editing side of the house.
If you take notice, AVID is running around dropping prices trying to convince users that their product is still the best. I guess if you still believe that paying more for a product makes it the best, then AVID is the best.
But it is not about the pricing so much as the product quality. It has taken Apple over 5 years to get Final Cut Pro marketed and technolized to match the need for todays editing chores. AVID has lived with that tired interface because they obviously don’t know what to do with it.
In the late 1970’s when I saw IBM hit the skids as a formidable company, I realized at that time that company image had finally become an unimportant feature of selling a product. Just look at Microsoft today. They will be gone in another 20 years because they care more about money than quality. It always happens. ALWAYS in time.
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[John] “better, more stable drives”
What are better? More stable? disk drives. By brand or what?
If your G4 is a dual morrored door model, you can put 4 disk drives inside it. There are different speed IDE ports inside that system so be sure you know what you are doing.
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[Christopher S. Johnson] “have a stock graphics card.”
There is no “stock” graphics card shipped with a G4 that will run Motion. In fact, the only one available for a 4x AGP motherboard is the ATI Radeon 9800 Mac Edition.
I have Motion running on my Quicksilver 2002 dual 1.0 GHz with this video card.
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[Michael Nadell] ” The holier than thou situation they enjoy is coming to an end some day”
Well thank you – but NO! With 97% of the computers running Windows, who is going to bother writing spyware for MACOS X? it is just to much fun to f__k with Windows!
May your Windows PC die a slow and painful death!
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[Sebastian] ” I need to get ready to begin my erase and reinstall. “
Did you initialize your boot disk when you loaded Tiger? Sounds like you didn’t do a backup of the previous operating system boot drive so you can not go back to that easily.
If you did, then there is no reason to reload Tiger but reinstalling FCP HD may be in order. First, try trashing the preferences and using Disk Utilities to Repair Permissions.
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[Chris Poisson] “has come to expect that Apple figures this kind of shit out before they release a new OS or app.”
I find this type of banter quite amusing. When did a computer become a toaster? Do any of you realize how complex a computer and it’;s operating system actually IS?
We have become complacent that we have computers more powerful that the government had 10 years ago and we are supposedly able to slide in a disc and do what ever at it had BETTER be right or something is wrong with the manufacturer of the computer or company.
Well, it may surprise you to know that people who write this code known as an operating system or an app, use the very latest hardware and really don’t care to test it on every system that company ever shipped.
The government had IT guys to make sure their computers ran non stop but you only have yourself to blame. Learn how to maintain, upgrade and repair your own computer and things will magically work much better.
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[Torv Carlsen] ” I would advise against the Clean Install.”
I would advise that you use Carbon Copy Cloner while still in Panther (cause it doesn’t work in Tiger, yet) and do an image copy of your boot drive to another drive.
Then insert the install DVD and Hold down the “C” key as you restart.
Choose to format and initialize the boot disk and then do a complete NEW install of Tiger on that drive.
After that is done successfully, start by installing the most necessary applications first and then the rest of the stuff you have/need.
This is a GREAT way to clean off junk from your system that you really don’t need anymore!