Re: Pinnacle CineWave and Commotion in conjunction with FCP

Dude,

You are a true warrior.. The Cinewave machine was abandoned by Pinnacle over 2 years ago. Cinewave was beating up Avid Symphony so bad that Avid purchased Pinnacle. There is NO support... But my Cinewave/Dual gig G4 / Medea RTRX is still paying the bills. It just a little slow.. But it is till a great import and export device for capture video off tape, mastering to tape , and monitoring the edit.

If you are doing Standard def work you will be OK, slow but ok... Any HD work and you will need days to render. I have Tiger working and the last issue of Cinewave. No RT effects and I never did get Commotion to work or Knoll Light Factory... Cinewave came with a lot of extras, that had many problems and was not worth the hassle to fiquare out..

Don't try to install Leopard or the latest Quicktime upgrades.. Keep everything at least a year back.. DVD Studio Pro doesn't like the Cine YUV codec, so export everything as 8 or 10 bit non compressed if you are going to DVD..

You can learn on it... It should make for a great "b" machine for another year... but save your pennies... get the Mac Pro... Even my new MacBook Pro is faster..