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Hey there Everyone once again! its been a long time. I would just like to clearly state that over the past few days, and probaly weeks, I have been pondering over how crappy windows is for editing. I just bought a new windows computer this summer (stupid i know) and i am totally disgusted with it. I am now looking at the I-macs dual 2.0, with 512 ram, i was playing around with one the other day, and they seem so sleek and sexy, what an awesome idea of apple. Now...I was wondering on the I-mac, will i be able to do some decent, if not better editing on final cut pro, or is the i-mac not a good choice. I have looked into the G5's but I have decided that i want an imac, unless there is some major differnces.

So ya, Also, could anyone tell me the basic resale price of my old cpu heres a quick brake down. Intel pentium 4 HT, 3.00 GHZ, 1 gig ram, Dual DVD, CDRW, DVD -R +R writer. Media Centre edition with Cable and AV inputs, 6 USB 2.0, 1 fire wire, 1 i-link, integrated card reader, Sony Vaio, 17` Sony Vaio Plasma Monitor, Wirless mouse, Harmon Kardon speakers with Sub, Comes with Adobe Elements, photoshop CS, Pinnacle 10, Comes in all boxes bought in, and is like new *(6 months)*

Thanks
 
It's actually spelt "iMac". I don't know why (probably because I'm a dedicated Apple *****), but for some reason you calling it an I-Mac, really upset me...! Weird, lol


ANYwho... it would be terrific for editing. I mean, right now for the most part, I'm using an older Powerbook (almost 2 years now) and a G4 iMac. These are considered old for the most part, eh; but the operating system, Tiger makes everything so damned speedy... nay, powerful.

Final renders on my jazz isn't super freakin' speedy, but it's good enough for me. It also should of course, preview render in real time quite easily.

Do stick away from the G5 Powermac's... you said you thought about it, but that'd be foolish, since it's only so much longer before they too are replaced by an Intel equivelant. Altough I'd still personally get one over an iMac, just because they still are better... for now! Kinda'.

Also, once more programs come out with hybred code (for the IBM machines and Intel), the Intel ones will finally become really, really elite.

I wrote this very poorly. I hope my basic points are picked up though.


EDIT: Oh! I notice you're from THE city! Don't buy from London Drugs. Obviously header to Westworld, or that smaller store just outside or around United Cycle!
If you go to Westworld though... don't buy from anyone but "Chris". He's the only one there who doesn't seem to be a money grabbing *****. In my opinion.
Now, I know I probably sound like I AM this Chris chap... which is obviously not the case, what with me being from Camrose and all.
 
my iMac g5 which is almost a year old still does the job. I edit on Avid Pc systems for work (News editing). Its a great set up, but the Imac final cut studio package is a great bargain, especially with a student discount.

Remember people where editing on much slower computers a few years ago, doing major movies- so don't let some pro tell you, you need the newest and best of everything.

I cut all my reel updates on my mac, and completed a short film- which is on this website on that mac. And the new ones are almost double the power.

I still have my pc and love to build pc systems from scratch. But the mac is far superior in operating system, fluid software integration, etc.

It will serve you for a good while unless you get hired for the next big budget hollywood flick =P
 
Why the heck haven't any of the other Mac users helped this dude out yet!?
This baffles me, cuz I'd guess that at least half the folk here are sworn Apple users.

Well, half the verterans at least...
 
What is there to help? The previous posts pretty much summed it up.

An iMac is more than usable for basic editing, but if you just "decided that you'd rather have an iMac" over a new G5, some insight into your decision-making would help. How much do you have to spend? Obviously the G5 is a faster computer, but it will cost significantly more. If you have the money, get the G5. If not, don't.
 
FCP doesn't work on the Intel iMacs yet. Apple said "March" but March is almost over.

That iMac is a smoker though with it's dual processors.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com
 
I suppose we did answer it, but-but...!

Come to think about it, I do remember there being another announcement by Mr. Jobs coming up right away, around the first week in April. Or maybe that was May. Either way though, it's a spring month.
If it is May, and knowing Apple's general schedule of updating all hardware every 180 days or so... what this means is that there will probably be a new iMac around the same time of the FCP announcement.


Theoretically, of course.
 
Well thank ya all! I just sold my old windows, set up (the one i talked about at the start of this post) for $1700. Not bad. So in about 2 weeks I will nbe purchasing the Imac Dual core Intel with I gig of ram. I will have to throw in about $400 more dollers, but i hope to earn it all back right away. Doing wedding videos and such minor things for pretty good money. I couldn't get a wedding video done on my windows because it would always crash. I know the G5 Tower is such a fast beast....but its a beast i cannot afford right now, and I think the Imac's sleek and sexy design, with pretty nice speed will work with me just fine.

One question tho, should i go with the 512mb of ram or pay a little more for 1 gig? will it make a big differnce? Well anywaya i am excited thanks for the help!
 
Though i know iMacs are generaly the most well known and popular, i have an eMac which is Apple's least expensive computer and all comes in one unit. I have used it to edit a wedding video and it is capable of doing so. ( i got it a few years ago though and i am not sure if you can still get them new...)
 
Hey, I don't want to turn it into a PC vs Mac debate, but at least let's recognize that the industry standard in editing (Avid) runs better and has more integration on PCs than on Macs. Sure, FCP is a powerful NLE but it's no better than Adobe Premiere Pro. Personally, I think that those getting a Mac are more geared toward the indie market of films than of the industry itself.

This is just my opinion and please note, I do edit using FCP, Avid and Adobe Premiere Pro so I'm not just talking without the experience of using both platforms.

-Kegan
 
That is true... FCP crushes Premiere easily. Avid and FCP are a bit closer, but I'd tend to agree that Avid is the standard, and while I've never used it, I believe it's better just from the way people talk about it. It's designed for a more organized workflow typical of a production where everything is logged and checked twice, i.e. the industry.

Also, Avid runs on Macs, and a good chunk of "the industry" as we keep calling them, prefer Mac as their Avid platform of choice.
 
avid is the industry standard which is why its awesome that my school has both final cut and avid. i personally like using final cut only because they're on new mac computers compared to avid express pro's older system. but the avid software itself seems more effeciant. but really if i were to compare the two i couldn't tell you which is better, both are good and are used by many proffesionals and knowing both would benifit anyone trying to get into the "industry"
 
"I believe it's better just from the way people talk about it. It's designed for a more organized workflow typical of a production where everything is logged and checked twice, i.e. the industry."

Yeah, from the way Avid users talk about it
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I think it's been hashed out here before, but Avid really offers very little that FCP doesn't in the hands of a skilled user.

Avid can still be said to be the "industry standard" because a large part of the industry is still using OS9 on early G4 towers. I remember being scoffed at a couple months ago when I pointed out that the rough cut of Cold Mountain was done on FCP, and I also specifically remember a production I worked on a year and a half ago (The Hawk is Dying) purchasing two FCP systems for their initial edits. IMO if professional productions are using it, that means it has the necessary quality to function effectively at that level. Avid is also widely used.
 
Ya, I don't care about Avid, if it has anything to do with Windows are bloody microsoft, get it away from me!! Argg, no more! lol

No i am getting My Imac in about 2 weeks here, I want to get 1 gig of ram, and a better video card, so i am saving more.

And alos FCP can run on the Intel Macs, as of yesterday they came out with a $50 patch.

And I was wondering, Since the people i work with are running on FCP, do you need the FCP disc to run the program? so both of us can work at once?
 
You don't need the disc but you aren't supposed to use the same copy on more than one computer without a multiuser license. It does cross-check serial numbers if the computers are connected via Ethernet.
 
Fair enough guys, you're right as well. I have done the majority of my work on Premiere Pro and in the past 6 months on Avid. FCP wasn't really doing it for me, but I guess to each his (or her) own. It is a powerful application that I have yet to unlock it's full potential, but I don't know whether I should invest the time or not.

I don't mean to hi-jack your thread, but on the topic of NLEs, which do you reccomend that I stick with? I know a lot of Mac users will reccomend FCP, but keeping an open mind-which do YOU use? Hm, I might start a new thread, because it doesn't really have anything to do with the iMac.

-Kegan
 

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