Apple Final Cut Pro - Manual

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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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