Neil Sadwelkar has sent me a comment which I’m posting for those of you who may be following the debate on film editing.
Most of what I’d written about system spec needed for feature editing on small machines still holds – yesterday’s announcement on new Intel Macs notwithstanding.
Meaning, sometime now we’re going to see Intel Macminis as well. So the question would be. Now that Macs are Intel and hence many times faster, can we do feature editing on Intel Minis or MacBooks?
The answer in the short term seems to still be a “No”. That’s because FCP is not yet Intel native, so its going to run via some emulation that probably makes it slower than on existing PowerPC mased Macs. Rosetta or something they call it. But come March, we’ll be able to trade in our existing FCP DVDs and get a Intel native FCP for just $ 50. That should do the trick.
So I guess when all this software porting thing settles down, by about March ‘06 I think I’ll be able to ‘qualify’ an FCP system to run on a MacBook and do an entire feature on it.
I’ll have begun editing a feature by then, so, if some kind soul from Apple or something loans me a MacBook or an iMac, I’ll sure put it through the grinds of a real feature edit, so by July I should be able to say “It works … I’ve done it!”
Any takers?
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Some more info, gleaned from the Apple web site, and which I’ve posted on my blog as well …
What can you do with the new Intel Macs … right now.
Should you rush out and buy one of the new Intel Macs? Can you edit a movie on the new Intel Macs? Right now?
I did a bit of reading up on this and it turns out that Safari, Mail, and most other apps will run just fine on the Intel Macs. Like a lot of the shareware or freeware you own. Even amongst these though, some will work some may not. These systems use Rosetta, which is an underlying technology built into the new Intel Macs, which translates all the code to the Intel processors so they do their stuff. And the user doesn’t have to bother with any settings or anything.
But if you plan on running Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Motion, Compressor, Soundtrack, LiveType, Aperture, Logic Pro, Logic Express, Final Cut Express and any other Pro application from Apple … THEY WILL SIMPLY NOT RUN ON AN INTEL MAC
the new iMac or the new MacBook Pro.
To run these, you will need a ‘Universal Binary’ version of these. And they will be available only after March 31st 2006. In India, that means mid-April if you’re lucky.
Here’s what Apple says …
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If you already own Final Cut Studio 1.0, Aperture, or Logic Pro 7.1, these applications are not supported to run on Intel-based Macs with Rosetta, but a Universal version will be available for $49. Logic Express will be $29.
If you own a Final Cut Studio application that used to be available individually, you can upgrade to Final Cut Studio for these prices.
If you own… Get Final Cut Studio for…
Final Cut Pro 5 $99
DVD Studio Pro 4,
Motion 2,
or Soundtrack Pro $199
Final Cut Pro 4/4.5
or Production Suite $199
Final Cut Pro 1/2/3 $699
To get these deals, come back to Apple.com after February 1, 2006. Apple expects Universal application availability by March 31, 2006.
———unquote
In other words you just cannot do any editing, titling, DVD authoring, professional sound on the new iMac or MacBook Pro till the 1st week April. And further, after that date, there will be no such thing as plain Final Cut Pro, or just DVD Studio Pro or any app separately. You just have to buy the full Final Cut Studio.
i am not really a fcp user but check out this link.it might be of some use
http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=38816&afterinter=true
it says final cut studio might work better on a macbook pro.