Hey guys this is my first post and I hope it's in the right thread, but heres my question. Im pretty new to editing I have used Premiere Pro a little but I was planning on getting a mac with FCP my budget is about $2000 to $2500. Is the macbook pro enough power for editing short films, or should I hold off and get an imac? Thinks for any help.
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VaricamLife
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The Macbook Pro, at least according to some owners/forum contributors, has held up well in editing materials from the HVX 200. This is HD footage. If it can hold up for their projects, I imagine it will hold up just fine for your short films. It has certainly done well in a lot of bench marks I've come across, or rather came across when it first was announced.
Now, depending on how quickly you need it, there was some talk of a Core Duo 2 processor coming out soon. I don't know too much about that, I think Barry may have made some brief comment to it on some discussion about the PCMCIA vs Express 3/4 slots debate in an HVX thread. If you can find out anything concrete about a possible release date on that, you might want to consider holding off till it comes out. But again I don't know too much about it.
cheers.
Now, depending on how quickly you need it, there was some talk of a Core Duo 2 processor coming out soon. I don't know too much about that, I think Barry may have made some brief comment to it on some discussion about the PCMCIA vs Express 3/4 slots debate in an HVX thread. If you can find out anything concrete about a possible release date on that, you might want to consider holding off till it comes out. But again I don't know too much about it.
cheers.
Jason Ramsey
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Is FCP part of your budget? That will run you 1200 dollars
[SIZE=+0]I was planning on getting the academic version of FCP, I know that you can't update but can you ad getting like magic bullet. Also what about external hard drives what amount of storage should I get, and what should the speed of the drive be. After a little research I think that I am going to update my budget to around $3500.[/SIZE]
VaricamLife
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The amount of storage space depends how busy you are going to be and how big of projects you are taking on. For a documentary for example you would need a lot as the shooting ratio will likely be quite high. For doing say only commercials and music videos though you could go with less. But then if you want to keep a lot of that stuff online all the time, then well you need more.... So as you can see its fully dependent on your needs/setup.
Personally I'd do a redundant raid setup (raid 5 I guess is Mr. Popularity now) so that you have at least 300 gigs of working space (remember due to redundancy you'll need double that). If possible I'd try pretty hard to budget for bumping that up to 500, if you can.
Anyway, that's just me. In the end it really depends on what you're going to be doing, how many projects will you be doing at the same time, and whether or not you need to leave a lot of anything online all the time.
cheers.
Personally I'd do a redundant raid setup (raid 5 I guess is Mr. Popularity now) so that you have at least 300 gigs of working space (remember due to redundancy you'll need double that). If possible I'd try pretty hard to budget for bumping that up to 500, if you can.
Anyway, that's just me. In the end it really depends on what you're going to be doing, how many projects will you be doing at the same time, and whether or not you need to leave a lot of anything online all the time.
cheers.
