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Will Final Cut Studio Run on the New Macbook Pro
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Rocks15-inch: 2.53GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB Memory
250GB hard drive1
SD card slot
Built-in 7-hour battery2
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
and the FCS2
A Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 or G5, Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, or Intel Xeon processor
1GB of RAM
An AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors)
A display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher
Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later
QuickTime 7.1.6 or later
A DVD drive for installation
Recommended Configurations
The following are recommended for all applications:
2GB of RAM when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources
4GB of RAM when working with uncompressed HD sources
Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB Memory
250GB hard drive1
SD card slot
Built-in 7-hour battery2
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
and the FCS2
A Mac computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 or G5, Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, or Intel Xeon processor
1GB of RAM
An AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors)
A display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher
Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later
QuickTime 7.1.6 or later
A DVD drive for installation
Recommended Configurations
The following are recommended for all applications:
2GB of RAM when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources
4GB of RAM when working with uncompressed HD sources
You kind of answered your own question there. Your base 15" MacBook Pro meets all those requirements. You were probably concerned about the 9400M GPU - that runs on a PCI bus it meets the requirements for Final Cut Studio.
What about editing the codec AVC-I-100 (after transcoding to prores), is it still possible in multi time lines ???
Funny you say that.My personal computer is a Macbook Pro Unibody (Dec 2008). Final Cut Pro runs beautifully on my Macbook Pro.
I got to use the University edit suites, which use summer 2008 Mac Pros, to edit my graduation film. I've never had a worse experience of a Mac in my life. I was all excited and it just seemed to crash on me a hell of a lot. VERY disappointed in the Mac Pro (all 12 of the Mac Pros were the same - all the students had problems).