jpcezanne

Q: I NEED A NEW MAC

I have

an early 2009 iMac ( mostly used to word stuff )

I have an McBook pro 2.3Ghz Intel Core i5 4GB DDR3 with an 27 inch apple thunderbolt Display

 

I do video and photography. I work with external hard discs mostly and every time its possible ( firewire 400&800) . I do a lot of convert ions and rendering is an actual issue. i do work with FCPro7 and Photoshop 5.1. I don’t open a lot of projects at a time, but I open both Photoshop and FCPro at one time. I only have firewire external discs.

I do work photo images of minimum 17Mb each , and full Hd video always .

 

What are your advises ? Can you help me?

Would you choose A,B,C or D ?

Thank you so much

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Posted on Oct 30, 2014 6:18 AM

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Q: I NEED A NEW MAC

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  • by Michael Grenadier,Helpful

    Michael Grenadier Michael Grenadier Oct 30, 2014 7:33 AM in response to jpcezanne
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    Oct 30, 2014 7:33 AM in response to jpcezanne

    All new mac's come with Yosemite installed and working with fcp7 in Yosemite is going to be problematic.  You might consider a used machine with something pre Mavericks installed or you might want to start thinking about moving to a different editing software like Premiere or Avid.  Unfortunately, fcp7's days are numbered.

  • by RatVega™,Helpful

    RatVega™ RatVega™ Oct 30, 2014 7:51 AM in response to jpcezanne
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    Oct 30, 2014 7:51 AM in response to jpcezanne

    All of the options you show are capable systems. None of them support FireWire directly which is OK since FireWire is slow as compared to most available alternatives so you'll want to upgrade your storage as well.

    As Michael mentions, your biggest problem may be with your aging software. We know FCP7 has issues on Yosemite. I'm not sure about Adobe CS5; you could have problems there as well.

     

    After you've worked out the software issues, the hardware will be easy.

  • by Meg The Dog,Solvedanswer

    Meg The Dog Meg The Dog Oct 30, 2014 9:44 AM in response to RatVega™
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    Oct 30, 2014 9:44 AM in response to RatVega™

    RatVega™ wrote:

    . . . None of them support FireWire directly which is OK since FireWire is slow as compared to most available alternatives so you'll want to upgrade your storage as well.

    Or spend $29 on an Apple Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter:

    http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464ZM/A/apple-thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapte r

     

     

    MtD

  • by RatVega™,

    RatVega™ RatVega™ Oct 30, 2014 12:06 PM in response to Meg The Dog
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    Oct 30, 2014 12:06 PM in response to Meg The Dog

    Meg The Dog wrote:

    RatVega™ wrote:

    . . . None of them support FireWire directly which is OK since FireWire is slow as compared to most available alternatives so you'll want to upgrade your storage as well.

    Or spend $29 on an Apple Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter:

    http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD464ZM/A/apple-thunderbolt-to-firewire-adapte r

     

     

    MtD

    And for only $29 you too can have a data stream so slow it's almost guaranteed to drop frames... even a USB 3.0 drive is 5-6 times faster.

    "I do work photo images of minimum 17Mb each, and full Hd video always."

  • by Meg The Dog,

    Meg The Dog Meg The Dog Oct 30, 2014 12:21 PM in response to RatVega™
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    Oct 30, 2014 12:21 PM in response to RatVega™

    You know best.

     

    MtD

  • by Warren Heaton,

    Warren Heaton Warren Heaton Nov 10, 2014 7:30 AM in response to jpcezanne
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    Nov 10, 2014 7:30 AM in response to jpcezanne

    Since you work with high resolution photos, I hope that you went with the 27-inch iMac Retina 5K (choice "C").  They're all great choices, but the screen resolution of the 27-inch iMac Retina 5K makes it the stand out choice.

     

    As suggested in other posts, get the Thunderbolt to FireWire800 adapter if you're not ready to migrate your data to either Thunderbolt or USB3 storage yet.  You'll get the same bandwidth with the FireWire adapter that you're getting on your current system with built-in FireWire.

     

    I've been using Adobe CS5.5 under 10.9.5 on a late 2013 27-inch iMac with minimal issues (installed using Migration Assistant from a now retired 2009 Mac Pro tower that was running 10.8).  So, there's a good chance that your CS5 will run as well (of course, every computer/software combination is different).

     

     

    -Warren

  • by jpcezanne,

    jpcezanne jpcezanne Nov 12, 2014 7:42 AM in response to Michael Grenadier
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    Nov 12, 2014 7:42 AM in response to Michael Grenadier

    Wau

    Sorry for the delay in response.

    That would really be a very big big problem.

    I'm shocked !

    thank you so much

  • by jpcezanne,

    jpcezanne jpcezanne Nov 12, 2014 7:44 AM in response to RatVega™
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    Nov 12, 2014 7:44 AM in response to RatVega™

    Thank you so much for your help

    I'm a bit confused how I can go on working , as FCPro is my 24 seven workflow!!!

  • by jpcezanne,

    jpcezanne jpcezanne Nov 12, 2014 7:45 AM in response to Meg The Dog
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    Nov 12, 2014 7:45 AM in response to Meg The Dog

    Had that already in mind for backup discs only

    Thank you so much

  • by jpcezanne,

    jpcezanne jpcezanne Nov 12, 2014 7:48 AM in response to Warren Heaton
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    Nov 12, 2014 7:48 AM in response to Warren Heaton

    Thanks so much for your help

    I'm freaking out already with the impossibility of FCP7 not working !

    Again , thank you