June 6, 2005
Well, now that the "suspense" is over, I guess I won't be buying a G5 and Final Cut Studio until at least this time next year. Not that I'd be able to afford that setup any earlier, of course. More, as always, at the invaluable HD For Indies.
It's going to be hard to wait, though - especially after spending the weekend trying to squeeze 13 gigs of still images into an airtight and perfectly timed 55 second montage sequence; throughout the process of which I spent way too much time watching that little spinning rainbow of a 'busy' icon.
Posted by David Lowery at June 6, 2005 3:47 PM
Comments
First off, thanks for the plug! I found you because of the traffic you drove to my site today - more than any other non-search engine source. As for purchasing windows, see what I just posted at HDForIndies.com a moment ago (even though it's dated tomorrow morning) - for most editors, Intel won't affect them until mid-next year at the soonest, and quite possibly it won't affect them for two full years. In the meantime, a G5 and FCP 5 will work just fine, as well as FCP 6 & 7 will almost certainly run natively on that G5 as well. It's not as bleak as you make it out to be...or at least that's my own opinion (humble or not you decide).
-mike
Posted by: Mike Curtis at June 6, 2005 9:30 PM
Yeah, I suppose that was a bit hyperbolic of me when I first posted that...2007 is a pretty long way away.
I've been meaning to add a link to your blog for some time now (I first learned of it during your panel at SXSW), and there's no time like the present. I really appreciate what you do...and I hope my next film has enough of a budget to let me hire you as a consultant on setting up the editing system (right now, I'm still editing miniDV at 29.98fps on my G4 with FCP 4...you know, the stone age...and I know criminally little about editing HD).
Posted by: Ghostboy at June 7, 2005 2:32 AM