I Need Final Cuts Studio and Mac G5 Buying Tips and Advice.
by Kevin Jones
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Nov 28, 2005 at 11:14:14 pm
I plan to buy Final Cuts Studio and a new Power Mac G5.
I need this to be a complete system ready to edit DVCAM.
I already have the DVCAM deck and I would like some advice on how I should configure the G5.
Would Apple be the best place to buy, or from a vendor?
Which G5 is best? Dual or Quad?
I thought 2 500GB internal drives and 4GB of RAM would be OK to get started.
Should I buy the apple monitors or would others be better?
Any ideas on an external firewire drive?
Any other ideas or advice is appreciated.
So long to my old Speed Razor PC system and hello Apple!
Re: I Need Final Cuts Studio and Mac G5 Buying Tips and Advice. by Mike Peele on Nov 29, 2005 at 2:55:51 am
Would Apple be the best place to buy, or from a vendor?
The prices should all be about the same.
Which G5 is best? Dual or Quad?
Faster is always better...
I thought 2 500GB internal drives and 4GB of RAM would be OK to get started.
It will be fine. Keep your media on the secondary drive. You will get about 470GB which works out to about 36 hours of footage.
Should I buy the apple monitors or would others be better?
Apple monitors are pretty and match the G5. Plenty of other vendors make great screens as well. Try viewsonic or dell.
Any ideas on an external firewire drive?
LaCie D2 triple interface drives have worked well for us - anything with a FW800 should be good.
Re: I Need Final Cuts Studio and Mac G5 Buying Tips and Advice. by Walter Biscardi on Nov 29, 2005 at 3:44:30 am
Have you searched this forum at all. This has been discussed quite a bit lately with all the new machines coming out and you'll find a lot of threads on it.
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Re: I Need Final Cuts Studio and Mac G5 Buying Tips and Advice. by Richard Blakeslee on Nov 29, 2005 at 1:39:38 pm
Keven,
I made the change from Speed Razor a couple of years ago. It was a great system. Question: What are you doing with the old system? I have mine in storage but it takes up room. I can't believe there's a used market for the hardware or software. Maybe a donation?
Re: I Need Final Cuts Studio and Mac G5 Buying Tips and Advice. by frankpledge on Nov 29, 2005 at 2:10:03 pm
if you go with FW editing you want to keep your FW deck and your drive on a seperate bus. i'm not sure if the FW 400 port and the FW 800 port areon the same bus or not. if not - buy an additional fw800 pci card. (do these even exist for pci-express?) the new g5s have pci-express. this is new to mac.
btw - this includes more than one FW drive. meaning - if you have a huge huge project on more than 1 FW drive, it's best to keep them on seperate bus as well.
speaking of drives - remember if you get 2 500 internals you should really only use the 2nd 500 for media. so if you think you'll need a 500g system drive, go ahead - but you will not get more media space with it.
4g ram is more than enough.
in general - to edit dvcam you really only need to plug in the mac.if you go over dv to sd then everything changes.
search this forum or LAFCPUG for any other questions.
