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Mar 10, 2013 11:00 AM in response to Messmariby BDAqua,In January 2006, Apple stopped selling Final Cut Pro as a stand-alone product. In March 2006 the Universal Binary 5.1 version was released as part of Final Cut Studio. Upgrades were achieved by sending the original installation discs back to Apple with a fee. One noticeable difference is that the Intel versions of Final Cut and Motion no longer recognize After Effects plug-ins. Instead, Apple released its own universal plug-in architecture FxPlug.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Cut_Pro
I think you'll want to max it out to 4 GB of RAM though.
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Mar 11, 2013 9:02 PM in response to Messmariby TacosAreDelicious,Final Cut Pro 6 is the latest version the G5 systems can run. I own a 2005 Powermac dual core 2.3 with 10GB of RAM and it runs Final Cut Studio 2 (Final Cut Pro 6) very well. I agree that you will want to max out your RAM and get a nice fast external drive to render to, something like a G-Drive or a nice LaCie and connect it with Firewire.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with editing, but it will make your life much easier to convert all of your footage to ProRes before editing in Final Cut. Here's an article about that if you need it. This page talks specifically about DSLR cameras but the same goes for any other kind of camera.
http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2009/11/02/converting-that-h264-footage/
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