Having troubles with my imac

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Sikari-Sakari

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We have an iMac 2.1ghz with 500 internal hard drive and an 1.5gb ram. We're editing a music video shot on HVX200 and it's kind of a nightmare. It appears that the computer is way to slow for DvcProHD. Any ideas how to speed things up?
 
Yes yes, but we were under the influence that it would definetely run at those specs.... Forget to mention that it's an PowerPc (not intel) and the Final cut is 5.1.2.

Even the soundtrack is way too slow. Were checking all the settings as I'm writing this.
 
You should get a seperate hard drive for your media. Having the hard drive run your operating system, FCP, and HVX200 media at the same time is the wrong way to go. Too much work for the hard drive. Especially if the internal drive of the imac is 5400rpm. Get an external 7200 rpm firewire drive and put your media on it. Things should speed up. I think your Ram is fine
 
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We have some of the stuff on an external drive. It's an 300gb LACIE but it's an NTFS (that is a problem?)

There's something definetely wrong with se sequence settings. The 6 meg song can't even play without slowing down constantly.

The song is an MP3 not an AIFF. Is that a problem?
 
I believe, a little research on your part should be done, that Tiger will reliably read NTFS but writing to NTFS on a mac is still not possible.

Haven't used an Mp3 in fcp but changing it in quicktime pro or itunes to aiff is easy .

I would try and get all my media on one drive formatted to mac os extended.
 
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NTFS will NOT work with FCP well, PERIOD.

You want a minimum of 2 Gigs RAM for video editing on any Mac.

MP3 is not officially supported by FCP, due to Apple's licensing agreements with various media distributors in iTunes.

You HAVE to use a secondary drive for your media. Apple states this very clearly, if you read the instructions. Only small projects on a laptop will be supported by FCP. The data pipe between a hard drive and the CPU/RAM is just way too narrow to support all the data needed for video editing.

I STRONGLY recommend the ATPS book, "Optimizing Your Final Cut Pro System" for ALL FCP users! I consider it a MUST HAVE!
 
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