FCP on mac mini

[tommyhonda92]

I'm so sorry to saying this, but what you said about Mac mini is very wrong.

I just installed Final Cut Pro 5.1 on my mac mini and do you want to know how long installations takes? less then one minute. After that FCP opened and works absolutelly fine, without any problem. Don't believe it? See screenshot. But remember, thats Mac mini Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz. I did that job myself and swaped intel processors.

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=63487&d=1165369079

By looking at your screenshot you took of your desktop, and by looking at your dock in this screenshot, how do you have Photobooth on your mini(the icon in the dock that has a marron drape and a three-frame film strip in it)? Is it possible to get this bit of software to use for our miniDV camera-equiped minis?

 

[eXan]

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=63487&d=1165369079

By looking at your screenshot you took of your desktop, and by looking at your dock in this screenshot, how do you have Photobooth on your mini(the icon in the dock that has a marron drape and a three-frame film strip in it)? Is it possible to get this bit of software to use for our miniDV camera-equiped minis?

Photobooth and Front Row come standard with Intel Minis. By the way, photobooth can work even on a Mac it didnt come with (I have one on my iMac for example and it works with my miniDV camera)

 

[Super Macho Man]

FCP5 for basic DV editing actually has lower system requirements than iMovie HD. Go install them on a 400MHz G3 and see for yourself. iMovie will drop frames, FCP won't. Not too long ago a 400MHz G3 running FCP WAS a high end editing system. It was an earlier version of FCP, but FCP has not gotten much slower since then.

 

[tommyhonda92]

Photobooth and Front Row come standard with Intel Minis. By the way, photobooth can work even on a Mac it didnt come with (I have one on my iMac for example and it works with my miniDV camera)

Photobooth didn't come on my mini. Front Row did but not Photobooth. Maybe it only comes on the latest revision of the minis.

 

[eXan]

Photobooth didn't come on my mini. Front Row did but not Photobooth. Maybe it only comes on the latest revision of the minis.

Hmm, maybe. You can still download photobooth on your Mac, just google it. I got mine from dad's MacBook Pro

 

[tommyhonda92]

Hmm, maybe. You can still download photobooth on your Mac, just google it. I got mine from dad's MacBook Pro

I am having trouble finding any site that will allow me to download Photobooth. All the sites I find that has a download of it, once I click on the download, it sends me to Apple's website to the iSite page....EVERY download that I find it sends me to Apple's page! It seems that Apple has somehow gotten through to every place that supposedly has a download of Photobooth and instructed the provider to not actually have the download but to rather refer to apple's site. Does this make sense? And does this even work for Apple to do this?

I would be willing to pay money for this program but Apple has not made it available. So what am I to do? All my friends that have Photobooth are out of the country at the moment, and the ones that do have macs that are in the country, don't have iSight built-in so they also do not have Photobooth.

 

[-DH]

Try here: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24903

It allowed me to download this file: PhotoBooth_1.7.3.dmg

-DH

 

[tommyhonda92]

Yeah, I found that one too, but it's NOT the photobooth that I'm wanting or talking about. The one I'm looking for is the one that allows you to use the built-in iSite camera(or in my case my MiniDV camera) to view and take pictures of the occupant sitting in front of the computer. But thanks anyway.

 

[pizzacake]

Try Funny Photographer http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/22736

 

[bigandy]

I am having trouble finding any site that will allow me to download Photobooth. All the sites I find that has a download of it, once I click on the download, it sends me to Apple's website to the iSite page....EVERY download that I find it sends me to Apple's page! It seems that Apple has somehow gotten through to every place that supposedly has a download of Photobooth and instructed the provider to not actually have the download but to rather refer to apple's site. Does this make sense? And does this even work for Apple to do this?

I would be willing to pay money for this program but Apple has not made it available. So what am I to do? All my friends that have Photobooth are out of the country at the moment, and the ones that do have macs that are in the country, don't have iSight built-in so they also do not have Photobooth.

The licensing of Photo Booth is the same as the copy of Mac OS X that comes with your computer - it is only for that machine, and cannot be legally copied to another machine. Only machines with an iSight built in are licensed to run Photo Booth.

Therefore, Apple are not allowing it to be found easily. It's not impossible, but it's not legal.

Just remember that

 

[elvirav]

I'm running Final Cut Pro 4.5 on an old G4 533 MHz PowerMac (with 1.12 GB of RAM) and while it is slow, it does run.

I have been installed Final Cut Pro 5 on my little G4 1.25 GHz Mini with 1 GB of RAM. I expect that it'll run everything in Studio (except Motion) perfectly okay. I have read multiple reports of Intel users getting FC Studio to run (except, of course, Motion).

I have no grand ambitions with my FCP use—I am making small projects for myself. For my needs, a Mini is okay. Of course, I do boot off of a pretty fast external Firewire drive. It wouldn't be too much fun to use the old pokey laptop drive that this Mini has inside.

I am sure an Intel Mini will be fine with FCP Studio.