Apple Final Cut Pro User Manual

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Apple Final Cut Pro User Manual

Uncompressed SD Editing

Using Final Cut Pro

This document outlines the recommended system components and setup for optimal performance of uncompressed SD editing using Final Cut Pro.

Editing in high data rate formats such as uncompressed SD can stress all aspects of a computer system. This means it is important to make sure that each system component is adequate in order to achieve maximum overall system performance.

These components include the computer, RAM, and disk storage subsystem. For this reason, the following hardware is suggested in order to achieve the maximum performance for uncompressed SD editing.

Hardware

1 x Dual 2.0 GHz or faster Power Mac G5 with at least 1 GB of memory. The system should be configured with either the ATI Radeon 9800 or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra or later graphics card.

1 x 2.52 TB Xserve RAID. The Xserve RAID should be built using the CTO option with upgraded RAM on the controllers to at least 512 MB.

1 x Apple Fibre Channel PCI Card

1 x Apple ProIO FireWire capture/playback device or equivalent PCI capture/ playback card (such as AJA Io, Kona SD, or Pinnacle CineWave)

Software

Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther or later

Final Cut Pro 4.1 or later

Apple ProIO drivers v1.0.2 or later

QuickTime 6.4

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