Thank you! I knew I could find Mac wisdom here
It will be used for college coursework involving Final Cut and Pro Tools; how demanding that is, I don't know. She indicated that her school uses G4's for it (in the labs). I suppose there is always the possibility that they are G5s and she doesn't know it:-P
I don't do much (read: anything) with video editing, but my friends that do, say what you said, it takes tremendous resources. Whether the CPU in that box is up for it, I don't know. But, my step-brother works for CDW, so I could build a SATA (or SCSI) RAID setup for her rather cheaply. Depending on her budget I might just go this route.
Thanks for the Pro Tools advice, I'll keep that in mind and let her know not to fsck with it. Do you have any tips regarding setup that I might find useful?
Thanks.
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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
STOP, unless she is just using it to learn then I would not use that box for Final Cut. She may be disappointed in the performance.
Video editing on any platform or OS gobbles tremendous amounts of processor cycles and for anything serious you would want an external RAID with hardware controller.
As far as Pro Tools. Box is fine but have fun setting that one up. Thing about pro tools is it can be a ***** to get running and once it is you don't mess with the box, IE no system updates or anything else. Pro Tools can be very finicky.
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