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Which MacPro for Final Cut and Sony EX1 in 720p

tardijs's picture
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Joined: 11/08/2010 - 2:24pm

Need to decide quickly on which MacPro to buy for editing with FCP, footage from the XDCamEX1R mainly 720p.

As well asmixed content from a number of sources e.g. MPEG2, MPEG MTS, flash, ...
What is most important: clock or cores?
Hard drives internal and/or external? SSD for system?
internal Raid?

Westemere 3,33 6 core or 8-core Westemere 2,4 ?

16 Gb for sure.

monitoring output : not using Apple screen !?



tardijs's picture
Last seen: 2 years 7 months ago
Joined: 11/08/2010 - 2:24pm

thanks grinner!

Considering prices for New MacPros, it's not obvious that you should go for the hightest number of core and GHZ... it's mainly my question: what's should be considered first : GHz or Cpu/cores ?


XTR-91's picture
Last seen: 1 month 3 weeks ago
Joined: 12/06/2008 - 8:57pm

Just make sure it's at least a dual core (has two cores) with a processor speed of 2.0GHz or more 2GB+ RAM. That's the rules I play by.

The one you mentioned up above should handle it.