Article:		Final Cut Server: An Introductory Overview
Subject:		Useful for me?
Date:		2009-02-27 09:53:33
From:		Steve Mebs
Response to: Useful for me?
Thanks Charlie. In your opinion, is a G5 adequate for our setup where there'd be only one, maybe two people connecting over GigE? For the laptop that I'd be logging/capturing with, would an older version of FCP work, or do we need the latest version? We have plenty of old versions in the closet.

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• Useful for me?
  2009-03-01 21:49:05  Charlie Miller | [Reply | View]
  
  
  The place you'd see a performance hit with a G5 vs. a modern Mac is with transcoding in Compressor. I couldn't say for sure, as I haven't used Compressor 3 on a PPC Mac.
  
  Regarding capture: the Apple website specifies Final Cut Pro 6.0.4 or later for compatibility, so you'd likely want to upgrade your client workstations.
  
  Charlie