Final Cut

mcsolas · Jan 4, 2013, 06:09 PM

Pardon me for being a bit of a newbie in the forum, I only occasionally get to use a co-workers iMac but I am planning on getting my own soon! Seriously considering a mini... although a little cautious now as I just realized that it doesn't have an optical drive. I guess thats ok, I just hadn't yet taken that into consideration.

We have FC Studio 2 edition. I think its 6 dvd disks to install it. How do you handle installing FC on this thing? Get a usb optical drive?

Then once its on there, how well does Final Cut run on the mini?

COrocket · Jan 4, 2013, 06:24 PM

Apple sells an external SuperDrive http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD...usb-superdrive

Or you can look around for a third party drive, other companies sell a similar product. You can also set up DVD drive sharing, so you can "borrow" the DVD drive for another SuperDrive equipped Mac if it is connected to the same network. See this apple support article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5287 for additional information.

I don't have experience with final cut, can't comment on how well it runs

mcsolas · Jan 9, 2013, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by COrocket

Apple sells an external SuperDrive http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD...usb-superdrive

Or you can look around for a third party drive, other companies sell a similar product. You can also set up DVD drive sharing, so you can "borrow" the DVD drive for another SuperDrive equipped Mac if it is connected to the same network. See this apple support article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5287 for additional information.

I don't have experience with final cut, can't comment on how well it runs

Thank you for this drive info. I had never come across sharing optical drives like that across a network, I can really see the use of this if I get a mini, connecting this to our 'mainframe' imac.

Any Final Cut editors out there running a Mini?
Figuring on getting the fastest one possible, maxing out the ram, running a souped up SSD or fusion drive and dual monitor. Anyone running a setup like this please let me know.

great high wolf · Jan 12, 2013, 04:42 AM

Yep, I've run Final Cut 6 and X on my 2012 2.3 quad i7/16GB/1TB. Both work great.

Jan 4, 2013, 06:09 PM	#1
mcsolas macrumors member Join Date: Jan 2013	Final Cut Pardon me for being a bit of a newbie in the forum, I only occasionally get to use a co-workers iMac but I am planning on getting my own soon! Seriously considering a mini... although a little cautious now as I just realized that it doesn't have an optical drive. I guess thats ok, I just hadn't yet taken that into consideration. We have FC Studio 2 edition. I think its 6 dvd disks to install it. How do you handle installing FC on this thing? Get a usb optical drive? Then once its on there, how well does Final Cut run on the mini?
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Jan 4, 2013, 06:24 PM	#2
COrocket macrumors regular Join Date: Dec 2012	Apple sells an external SuperDrive http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD...usb-superdrive Or you can look around for a third party drive, other companies sell a similar product. You can also set up DVD drive sharing, so you can "borrow" the DVD drive for another SuperDrive equipped Mac if it is connected to the same network. See this apple support article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5287 for additional information. I don't have experience with final cut, can't comment on how well it runs __________________ 2012 Mac Mini - i7 Quad Core 2.3 GHz - 4GB RAM - 128 GB SSD
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Jan 12, 2013, 04:42 AM	#4
great high wolf macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2006	Yep, I've run Final Cut 6 and X on my 2012 2.3 quad i7/16GB/1TB. Both work great.
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