I'm assigned to buy rquipment for my company to migrate from adobe premier using PC to work with Final Cut, is 'iMac 27" quad-core i5 3.2GHz/8GB/1TB/GeForce GT 755M 1GB' enough to install FInal cut on? is the graphic card enough??

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I'm assigned to buy rquipment for my company to migrate from adobe premier using PC to work with Final Cut, is 'iMac 27" quad-core i5 3.2GHz/8GB/1TB/GeForce GT 755M 1GB' enough to install FInal cut on? is the graphic card enough??

Hello everyone, this is my first post here hope it will be useful.

Ok, I work in an Editing & Production company, we use PCs and Adobe Premier Pro to edit and do our jobs, it works fine and everything, but clients sometime ask for Scenes made on FInal Cut, also one of our colleagues insist that we buy iMac Desktop and get Final Cut and work on it.

I wanna know whats the main advantage of Final Cut copared to Adobe Premier Pro, like what it can do while Adobe Premier Pro can't do, and 2nd: I contacted the official Mac store and gave me the following option to buy from their stock:

ME086	iMac 21.5" quad-core i5 2.7GHz/8GB/1TB/Intel Iris Pro Graphics
ME087	iMac 21.5" quad-core i5 2.9GHz/8GB/1TB/GeForce GT 750M 1GB
ME088	iMac 27" quad-core i5 3.2GHz/8GB/1TB/GeForce GT 755M 1GB
ME089	iMac 27" quad-core i5 3.4GHz/8GB/1TB/GeForce GTX 775M 2GB

I'm not familiar with Mac products, but from what I read from online articles it seems that option 3 or 4 are the best to go with, but I just want to know do they meet Final Cut X requirment... from what I read in a previous article "OpenCL Graphic Card" should be found.... is GeForce GT 7xx that is found in the above table a good replacment for it, or we should install an OpenCL Graphic card along side with it.

Thanks in advance for your help, and hope to get answers as soon as possible cause my upper managment wants the new equipments asap.

Regards

Final Cut Pro X, iMac

Posted on Feb 11, 2014 1:26 AM

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Feb 11, 2014 2:15 AM in response to a.j.ishtay

I recommend the 27". I 7 3.4 Ghz chip with 16 gigs of Ram and the 1 TB PCIe Flash internal storage. I suggest the 780m w/ 5 gigs of VRam. I just baought this configuration for use wioth FCPro. Get the 27" because you can upgrade memory modules on it biut not on the others. The i7 Chip allows FCP to utilize all 4 cores when rendering/transcoding, the other chips do not. The I 7 Intel chip also has on board graphics instructions that FCPro uses. 16 gigs of ram is the least - I intend to get 16 more.

So the anser is "no" in my opinion. None of the configurations you listed are optimal for FCPro. Will your configuration "work" yes. Will you spend alot of time waiting instead of creating and getting on with your life, yes.

I chose the maxed out configuration because i have been editing on computers since 1998, have owned 2 PCs custom made & maxed out for Adobe and a MacBook Pro new in 2006 to be used for Final Cut Pro. I learned that you always get the the top of the line, maxed out, made-for-graphics configuration as opposed to the play with Facebook, e-mails, Office and Google my house rig.

It is a joy to edit and transcode with. A Joy. So do yourself a favor and don't skimp. What is your time worth and what would you pay to not be frustrated - waiting -- or worse, having to do things twice.

Use the Barklay's 1 year same as cash offer, it'll be the best purchase you've made in a long time.

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Feb 11, 2014 2:24 AM in response to babylonslim

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Good Luck!

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Feb 11, 2014 3:34 AM in response to a.j.ishtay

I'd consider at least the Fusion Drive option, or the SSD options. It does not have to be the 1TB PCI-e flash storage, as that is quite expensive.

Also, keep in mind the need for adequate EXTERNAL storage - both for media and for backups.

How much and what kind depends a lot on the kind of work and the need for collaboration between editors.

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Feb 11, 2014 3:39 AM in response to a.j.ishtay

First I wanna thank you for your fast reply

I am in Lebanon, in Mac store there is no other options than what I listed above, so.... option number 4, having alongside 3 PCs functioning on Adobe Premier I think it can be tolerated.... but do you think option 4 without any maximization can deliver "good" performance, we do accept "good" performance or even "above average" performance, again without purchasing any additional hardware with the original built in graphic card and other components.

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Feb 11, 2014 3:46 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Luis, thanks for your fast reply

"I'd consider at least the Fusion Drive option, or the SSD options"... Honestly I dont know what do you mean by Fusion Drive option or the SSD option, as a matter of fact, what I can understand from this "iMac 27" quad-core i5 3.4GHz/8GB/1TB/GeForce GTX 775M 2GB" is that its 27 inch with a 3.4 GHz processor (quad cores I think) 8 GB of RAms..... the "1TB/GeForce GTX 775M 2GB" sections I do not know what do they resemble in depth and how do they affect the rendering performance (for example do they allow me to install FCX or pro and if and work normally, and if they do how much far are they from minumum or average requirment)

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