Final Cut Pro HD and NVIDIA GeForce 6600

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Final Cut Pro HD and NVIDIA GeForce 6600

I have been using Final Cut Pro for some time now on a G4 PowerBook and just recently upgraded to a bright and shiny PowerMac g5 (for the extra horsepower to crunch goodies for movies). A small setback has me stumped....

The software loaded fine, and I pulled down all the relevant updates...but when attempting to load the software I am presented with a Configuration Error - missing AGP graphics card...

This new Mac has the NVIDIA GeFORCE 6600 card installed - Help!

I am fairly sure this is the same card used in my G5 at work, and FCP seems to like it just fine. Is newer hardware worse for this version of FCP?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Posted on Nov 6, 2005 8:21 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 6, 2005 8:54 PM in response to JCharles

If you're talking about one of the brand-new G5's with PCI-Express graphics cards, there's a patch you can apply (non-Apple) that has been reported to allow older versions of FCP to run on these newer macs. It's the same patch that allowed macs with PCI graphics cards to run FCP when it started requiring AGP graphics cards.

Patrick Sheffield, "PCI Express PowerMacs and FCP" #5, 01:43pm Oct 24, 2005 CDT

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Studio X

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Nov 6, 2005 9:00 PM in response to JCharles

If this is the REALLY shiney new G5's (aka dual core) they do not use the AGP slots for video.

You might try a quick look through these posts ...

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?127@@.ee6bcd7

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JCharles Author

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Nov 7, 2005 12:28 PM in response to Jeff Hubbach

Patrick,

Thanks for the link! I will check it out.

JLC

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JCharles Author

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Nov 7, 2005 12:29 PM in response to Studio X

Yup this shiny rascal is a Dual Core.... Thanks for the information!

JLC

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Studio X

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Nov 7, 2005 5:48 PM in response to JCharles

Have fun with it and let us know (so we can close the thread) when you have that rascal running.

cheers,
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Answer 6

Feb 1, 2006 5:13 AM in response to Studio X

Hi - is there any more info on this? Neither of the links above seem to be working any more (hmmm...) and we've just blown the department budget on three new Quad G5's, can't afford the update to FCP 5 quite yet!

Cheers - Chris

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