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Fooboy
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2007-07-16, 20:49

My little brother is finishing his masters in film and communication and wants to continue to use Final Cut in his freelance work. Naturally, he wants to get an Apple.

My question is how well does the 20" Intel iMac (loaded with 3 gigs or ram) handle Final Cut? Does it slice up most large video editing projects or does it barely chug through.

Or ... does he need to drop another $1200 (approx) for a Mac Pro with extra memory and a large LCD monitor?
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2007-07-16, 20:58

Final Cut should run great on it. Although, the 24" iMac would probably be a lot better. (Fit's much more on the screen)
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julesstoop
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2007-07-16, 22:02

Agreed. It runs Final Cut Pro like a dream.
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2007-07-16, 22:20

Loaded with RAM?

It'll fly.

Especially if you use a FireWire 800 drive for FCP scratch, capture, and projects.
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Gizzer
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2007-07-17, 03:33

Not sure if this is any help or not, but I'm running Final Cut Studio 2 on a 20" iMac G5 with 2Gb RAM and it works pretty well, so an Intel one should fly....

Having said that - I've played with FCS on a 24" iMac in an Apple store and it looks amazing! I've had full approval from The Committee to buy one if the new iMac's are announced next month
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beardedmacuser
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2007-07-17, 03:52

My G4 PowerBook still runs Final Cut Pro really well. An Intel iMac with lots of RAM will scream! Most jealous!
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Clean Sanchez
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2007-07-17, 07:54

My G4 1.5GHz and 1.5GB RAM Powerbook struggles, but Livetype or Motion will do that to you. For editing - no worries.

IF you don't need to do a lot of complex rendering then you'll be fine. BUT it always pays to load up your RAM - FCS/FCP just loves RAM!
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Bryson
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2007-07-17, 10:19

It'll be super, as long as it has plenty of RAM.
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Dave
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2007-07-17, 10:30

I'd be inclined to get the 24" iMac, simply because the monitor will show a full HD image.
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2007-07-21, 17:59

I have the 20" and Final Cut works really well on it. If you want firewire800, go for the 24". No matter what, they are great computers that run the program well so you won't have buyer's remorse either way.
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Fooboy
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2007-08-03, 09:45

Ya - my brother got a 24" imac and then dropped in a 2 gig stick (+ a default 512 stick) for a total of 2.5 gigs.

Cuase he might play games we upgraded to 256 vram as well (7600 card).

I got to admit - I set it up for him and my 17" intel imac seems so wimpy now I want it.
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