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View Full Version : Final Cut Pro on an iMac G5 bogusja 08-07-2005, 02:42 PM Hi, I'm new here. I've had experience using FCP at my school and Adobe Premiere at my home. I recently purchased an iMac G5 intending to edit projects with FCP. I was just curious as to whether any knows how it would run on an iMac G5 with a 1.6 ghz processor, 1.25 gigs of ram and the packaged video card. directorik 08-08-2005, 01:09 AM Hi, I'm new here. I've had experience using FCP at my school and Adobe Premiere at my home. I recently purchased an iMac G5 intending to edit projects with FCP. I was just curious as to whether any knows how it would run on an iMac G5 with a 1.6 ghz processor, 1.25 gigs of ram and the packaged video card. That's almost exactly the set up I have. Runs great! Beeblebrox 08-08-2005, 01:47 AM I run FCP on the substantially less powerful Mac Mini w/ 1GB of RAM. It's slow but it works. Yours should be fine and dandy. bogusja 08-08-2005, 10:36 AM Awesome. Thanks for your help. directorik 08-08-2005, 11:25 AM I run FCP on the substantially less powerful Mac Mini w/ 1GB of RAM. It's slow but it works. Yours should be fine and dandy. Good point, Beeble. I have cut several features on my iMac G4 - 800Mhz and 512MB RAM. Works just fine bogusja 08-08-2005, 11:57 AM A related question: Is there a big difference between FCP 4.5(HD) and 5? directorik 08-08-2005, 12:44 PM Apple made a lot of changes. Native HDV support - Multi camera editing - more RT effects (finally) AdamG 08-08-2005, 01:45 PM Im running a G5 Tower with Dual 2.5's, 2GB RAM and FCP5 and can't remember ever experiencing any issues whatsoever. I also have about 230Gbs of a 250Gb HD full with video at the moment. If anything, I figured that would hinder the preformance, but it hasn't. You should be fine with your setup. sysyphus 11-29-2005, 11:55 PM uh, FCP4 and 4.5 require an AGP graphics card so many G5 customers will not be able to use anything but FCP5. some of the new machines have a PCIexpress video card which is incompatible with 4 and 4.5 and tiger is incompatible with FCP3, so older HW needs older SW and some newer HW needs the very latest SW. i only know this because my new 2GHz G5 won't run my FCP4.5 and it gives me an error code saying i don't have AGP installed. looks like compUSA is getting some used HW back on the shelves. bummer, i really wanted to see how much faster i could render knightly 11-30-2005, 02:49 AM $400 upgrade to FCP5 through apple's store...cheaper if you're a student. |
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