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Is a Power Mac 1.0 Ghz G4 powerful enough?
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with 1.5 gigs of ram, OS 10.3.9 powerful enough for Final Cut Studio? It says it's compatible with 10.3.9 but not Motion. Hopefully DVDSP will work too.
Not sure how editing SD video (not HD, yikes) would be in Final Cut...? I'll install a new, faster, and bigger hard drive then the stock 40 gigger.
FCS and this mac?? Also, why is Final Cut Studio 3-4 weeks shipping at the Apple Store??
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Originally Posted by QuadG5Man
with 1.5 gigs of ram, OS 10.3.9 powerful enough for Final Cut Studio? It says it's compatible with 10.3.9 but not Motion. Hopefully DVDSP will work too.
Not sure how editing SD video (not HD, yikes) would be in Final Cut...? I'll install a new, faster, and bigger hard drive then the stock 40 gigger.
FCS and this mac?? Also, why is Final Cut Studio 3-4 weeks shipping at the Apple Store??
I worked with FCP on a 1Ghz G4 with 1.5Gb of RAM for quite a while. It was running just fine for DV projects (Except Render Time sometimes horrible). I could not install Motion but DVDSP was running OK. I recently bought a Quad and it's night and day, but running FCP on a G4 is still all right. Unless you make a living on your machine and render time is an issue.
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Thanks dlefebvre!
It turns out I'm getting a 733 Mhz G4 (no L3 cache) Quicksilver with 1.12 gigs of ram, that will be used for creating daily videos for work. I bet that's the 2001 model with the hard drive restrictions......bah! Exporting and rendering....bah!
Throw a dual G4 in there and I can breathe with this machine. Until then, bah!
edit: it IS a mac and final cut though, 
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Yeah, the 733MHz is a 2001 model with the crappy 128GiB limit. I wouldn't want to be running Final Cut on one of these (usable, probably, but PAINFUL).
Max the RAM, get faster hard drives (even an ATA-133 or SATA controller), and CPU with some level3. 1GHz G4s with 2Mb L3 are about 200USD at the moment.
They want work, they need to give you the tools 
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Power Mac G4 Digital Audio 533MHz 1.5GiB RAM, 2x 80Gb ATA HDDs, 320Gb SATA HDD, Radeon 9650 256MiB, Airport Extreme compatible PCI card, Zip 250, Pioneer 110, Firewire DVD burner, 21" CRT, Harmon Kardon Apple Pro Speakers, OS X 10.4.6
Powerbook Pismo G3 400MHz, 768MiB RAM, 80Gb HDD, AirPort Extreme PC Card, Bluetooth 1.1, DVD-ROM, OS X 10.4.6, Ubuntu 5.10, MacOS 9.2.2
To buy: RAM for Pismo, CPU upgrades
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I'm going to suggest a dual g4 upgrade (dual 1.8 hopefully) and a big external Firewire HDD (no 128 gig limit on the firewire bus) for this Quicksilver...
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I do a bunch of foto based video projects in FCProHD and DVDSP on DA in signature. Works fine although I usually export and go have a cup of coffee. The real killer is exporting the final DVD in DVDSP. 3-5 hours so turn it loose and go home for the evening. It's usually done in the morning. As noted, the computer works like a champ though. No motion. These video tasks are the hardest thing this PMac has to do. the rest is Photoshop.
Definately go with external firewire and the dual 1.8 should be nice. Am considering this CPU upgrade myself and would like to hear how it stacks up.
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