MacPro Edit Suite


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MacPro Edit Suite
by James Whittington on Jun 26, 2009 at 7:32:09 pm

Hello!

I'm looking to upgrade my current Mac tower (G5, PowerPC). I've got a budget of about $5,000 and have come up with the following setup...

8-core, 16GB Tower: $3,800
3 1TB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives: 90x3=$270
CalDigit RAID card: $645

That comes to $4,715. Is there anything else that you all would strongly recommend adding to that? Any major reason to upgrade the graphics card?

I should mention I have a dual monitor setup that works fine as well as a Kona LHe card.

Thanks very much!

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Re: MacPro Edit Suite
by Kevin Monahan on Jun 26, 2009 at 9:06:15 pm

HD Monitor
Studio Audio Monitors

Kevin Monahan
www.fcpworld.com
Author - Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro

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Re: MacPro Edit Suite
by Zane Barker on Jun 27, 2009 at 4:00:29 am

[James Whittington] "Is there anything else that you all would strongly recommend adding to that?"

Apple Care is a MUST!

There are no "technical solutions" to your "artistic problems".
Don't let technology get in the way of your creativity!

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Re: MacPro Edit Suite
by david bogie on Jun 29, 2009 at 3:11:45 pm

If you are going to be making money with this setup, you want a card specifically for Motion, the 4870 or 4780, whatever they're calling it now.
You want CS4.
You want to replace the chair at your editing desk.

bogiesan

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Re: MacPro Edit Suite
by James Whittington on Jun 29, 2009 at 3:38:06 pm

Haha...very nice.

Don't use Motion very often. Tend to use After Effects for all my motion graphics needs.

Chair is sufficient but I wouldn't be opposed to an upgrade!

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Re: MacPro Edit Suite
by Steve oakley on Jun 30, 2009 at 5:41:08 am

don't get the ram from Apple, get it from a 3rd party for a lot less

why are you getting the raid card ? you can stripe a raid with the internal drives & OS X. raid card only makes sense to connect to external storage

and that kona card probably won't work because unless your G5 was the last generation, they have PCI-X slots, not PCIe. in that case, the kona card is a boat anchor.

in which case you need to look at some sort of video I/O, and I think the better choice is the matrox hardware once you look at price / performance / options in product line including the h264 encode acceleration.

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