FCS2 - Can my hardware take it?

[sk3pt1c]

i've read this somewhere in the past but couldn't find it in the forum so i'm posting my question:

will FCS2 run on a Powerbook?
i know it will be really slow, but i don't really care since i won't be using it for a living, just for fun and home movies and so on, i plan to get a macPro in the near future so i'd like to learn FCS2 for then...
i think i read something about final cut pro specifically, it requires a better graphics card or something?
is there a setting i need to change somewhere?
if you can find the relevant topic, please link it here, or else thanks in advance for your advice!
🙂

 

[0007776]

which powerbook do you have, it should run on the later ones at least.

 

[ebouwman]

Final Cut really great but i don't think that your computer can quite handle it, I've only used Final Cut (studio 1) at my schools film lab, but i do know that to run "Motion" you need to have over 1 GB of RAM.

I don't think that you need a good graphics card, there isn't really anything graphics intensive, when you run a movie in it, it should only be about as graphics intensive as running something in Quicktime.

(edit)
Whats the speed of your processor?

 

[sk3pt1c]

i have the latest revision of the powerbook with the 1.67 g4 and 2gb of ram.
final cut pro 5 worked fine, even though it was slow (of course)
as well as the previous versions of Motion, livetype, compressor and dvd studio pro...
i just think i read somewhere that the new final cut pro demands a better graphics card and you need to change some setting or something to make it run... 😕

 

[TheAnswer]

Here is the specs page. It looks like you are good for FCP and Motion, but your graphics card doesn't cut it for Color. You might consider a faster external HD for your Final Cut files, you might find that speeds things up a little bit (especially if you didn't get the 7200 rpm drive in your Powerbook).

 

[sk3pt1c]

i think i'll be ok then, i do have the 7200 drive.
it'll probably be as slow as the last one, i can deal with it.
i'm still quite sure i read something about changing some file
for final cut pro specifically though... maybe i misread the post
or something...

 

[sk3pt1c]

right, everything works fine so far, Color will probably be the slowest running of them all, but what the heck, i'm happy i can actually have and run these apps 🙂
thanks guys