chitnik Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Hello All, I am (obviously) a noob, and very curious about rolling out a Hackintosh system for professional video editing and motion graphis production. I live by Final Cut, Color, Motion and After Effects. Is anyone else using these apps in a professional capacity? What is your experience? Do you have any reccomendations? Thanks in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122909-any-pro-final-cutvideo-app-users/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrock42 Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Editing, rendering, pretty much everything that's software based works great. I keep having problems with pci firewire. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122909-any-pro-final-cutvideo-app-users/#findComment-869629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFX74 Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 Editing a 60 mins documentary film with Final Cut Studio 2 with DVCPRO HD footage (about 5 hours of footage at 100mb/s) and doing a lot of motion graphics with After Effects CS3 (my biggest composition was about 170 layers with a frame size of 1440 x 1080) FC and AE runs pretty smooth and fast Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122909-any-pro-final-cutvideo-app-users/#findComment-870953 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitnik Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 Wow RFX74! That sounds great! What hardware are you using? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122909-any-pro-final-cutvideo-app-users/#findComment-871128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFX74 Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Acer Aspire M5630, Q6600 - 3Gb Ram 1 x 500 Gb Sata2 system drive, 1 x 750 gb sata2 A/V drive, Geforce 8600 GS 512mb, Panasonic DVCPRO HD recorder (firewire in/out), Kalyway 10.5.2 with vanilla kernel. To make this machine works with all the cpu cores (4) you have to patch the bios or it won't use all the cores. The only thing i'm trying to fix is the onboard audio wich is an ALC888/ICH7 realtek chip (actually it works only the stereo output with Azalia, but i'm trying to make it works with AppleHDA so it can run also Avid Media Composer ) Soon i'll try the AJA Video board for HD-SDI and YUV IN/OUT this is the hardware that works on this machine: integrated lan (gigabit) : ok integrated firewire: ok integrated sound: no mic or line in, it works only the line out (2 stereo channels with azalia) Cpu (intel Q6600): ok (bios patch) Video adapter (nvidia geforce 8600 gs): single display ok, dual display not tried yet USB: ok Sata: ok and this is the X-Bench results (without disk test): Results 203.34 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.5.2 (9C7010) Physical RAM 3072 MB Model MacPro3,1 Drive Type MAXTOR STM3320820AS MAXTOR STM3320820AS CPU Test 150.72 GCD Loop 282.79 14.91 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 137.51 3.27 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 110.05 3.63 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 150.50 26.21 Mops/sec Thread Test 331.16 Computation 417.48 8.46 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 274.43 11.81 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 156.00 System 199.61 Allocate 267.44 982.12 Kalloc/sec Fill 167.22 8130.57 MB/sec Copy 188.34 3890.04 MB/sec Stream 128.02 Copy 122.13 2522.46 MB/sec Scale 121.78 2515.94 MB/sec Add 134.84 2872.36 MB/sec Triad 134.63 2879.96 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 231.70 Line 185.18 12.33 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 249.67 74.54 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 199.07 16.23 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 193.21 4.87 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 506.20 31.67 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 152.82 Spinning Squares 152.82 193.86 frames/sec User Interface Test 387.27 Elements 387.27 1.78 Krefresh/sec Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/122909-any-pro-final-cutvideo-app-users/#findComment-872057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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