Final Cut Pro and G4 Powerbook

[Vikaram Gupta]

Hello folks,

My girlfriend is looking at getting a Mac. Her main purpose is to run
Final Cut Pro on it, for two movies she doing in grad school. Of course
she'll also use it for productivity apps, internet, etc.

I have a 15" PB G4 of very recent vintage, and I love it for my stuff--
server side web development. It runs X11 pretty well though I wish it
were more stable. But even with 1GB of RAM it does bog down some if I
have more than 10 apps open.

So I am wondering if this type of box would be too slow for Final Cut Pro.
I don't have direct experience with it myself, but I know she has run it
on a G3 tower. Does anyone out there use FCP, and how fast is your
configuration? What would be the minimum RAM you would install on the
box?

Thanks for your opinions,
Vik

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[Vikaram Gupta]

In article <bigg0l$4tl$1@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>,
Vikaram Gupta <vik@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

>Hello folks,
>
>My girlfriend is looking at getting a Mac. Her main purpose is to run
>Final Cut Pro on it, for two movies she doing in grad school. Of course
>she'll also use it for productivity apps, internet, etc.
>
>I have a 15" PB G4 of very recent vintage, and I love it for my stuff--
>server side web development. It runs X11 pretty well though I wish it
>were more stable. But even with 1GB of RAM it does bog down some if I
>have more than 10 apps open.
>
>So I am wondering if this type of box would be too slow for Final Cut Pro.
>I don't have direct experience with it myself, but I know she has run it
>on a G3 tower. Does anyone out there use FCP, and how fast is your
>configuration? What would be the minimum RAM you would install on the
>box?
>
>Thanks for your opinions,
>Vik
>

Doh, and to followup on my own post, is anyone running FCP on a G3, like
one of the iBooks? How well does that work? Thanks.

Vik

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[Marc Heusser]

In article <bigg5i$5ve$1@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>,
[email]vik@Xenon.Stanford.EDU[/email] (Vikaram Gupta) wrote:

....

> Doh, and to followup on my own post, is anyone running FCP on a G3, like
> one of the iBooks? How well does that work? Thanks.
>
> Vik

At least FCP 1.2.5 runs well in 9.2.2 on a Pismo PB (500 MHz G3, 396 MB
RAM, external FW disks).
Of course, no real time cross dissolve etc ...

HTH

Marc

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[Vikaram Gupta]

In article <marc.heusser-AE07D6.23095126082003@news.bluewin.ch>,
Marc Heusser <marc.heusser@CHEERSheusser.comMERCIALSPAMMERS.inv alid> wrote:

>In article <bigg5i$5ve$1@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>,
> [email]vik@Xenon.Stanford.EDU[/email] (Vikaram Gupta) wrote:
>
>...

>> Doh, and to followup on my own post, is anyone running FCP on a G3, like
>> one of the iBooks? How well does that work? Thanks.
>>
>> Vik

>
>At least FCP 1.2.5 runs well in 9.2.2 on a Pismo PB (500 MHz G3, 396 MB
>RAM, external FW disks).
>Of course, no real time cross dissolve etc ...
>
>HTH
>
>Marc
>

Marc, thanks for the info. I wonder how bloated FCP 4.x is compared with
1.2.5. I think she'll probably go G4.

Thanks,
Vik

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