Tod Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Hi there, I'm trying to solve problems with premiere pro 1.5 for about 5 months. Nothing works. So I was seeling my PC to by the macbookpro. Well, someone told me about this project and as soon as I'm getting to know it, FCP works. There are two questions: 1-Can i use the OSX86 in a 80GB HD and access data in my 250GB HD? 2-The first HD will be dedicated to the OSX86, the other 80GB (not mentioned yet) runs windows XP, and the 250GB HD is the "storage unit". Can my 250 hd also keeps data generated from both operational systems without file crash? Thanks! Tod My system: P4 3.6 250HD 80HD 80HD mother board: P4NDiamond GeForce7 7800 GTX 256MB 2GB Ram (Corsair) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8338-run-fcp-in-a-p4-36/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickhamm Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 As far as runing MacOS 10.4.3 is concerned, your MB chipset is reported as working, but your Creative Soudn Blaster is not supported, which means that you will not have any sound (at least not until someone makes a driver or hack a driver). Also, your GeForce7 7800 GTX 256MB is not supported by Mac Os 10.4.3 because right now it seems to only support ATI graphics cards. Your video will run, but it will not be accelerated, making it run slow. On top of all that, Final Cut Pro is not goign to be universal until March, so until then it will run about a fast as it does on a 1GHz G4 Macintosh. Unfortunately with unssoported graphics included, that is not too fast. If you are willing to change your graphics card (to say a radeon x600 or something like it) and get a supported soudcard (like an external C-Media USB Audio) you should be able to use Final Cut at an acceptable speed (faster than Premiere) until it is universal. Then it should fly with supported graphics and sound. Also, you should be able to use the 250GB hard drive, but there is one catch: it has to be FAT32 format. Windows XP can only use FAT32 and NTFS formats. Mac OS X can read from NTFS, but not write to it, so you could open up files but you could not save anything onto the drive. Mac OS X can read and write to FAT32 partitions and so can Windows, but there are still several catches. First, FAT32 does not accept any files bigger than 4GB, which when working with video is very easy to run into a problem with files being too big. Also FAT32 doesn't support drive parttions over 132GB (I think that is the number) so you would have to split the drive into two partitions. I know that FAT32 works because when I ran Mac OS 10.4.1 I ran out off room on my Mac HFS drive so I started installing programs on my FAT32 Windows drive and they ran just fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8338-run-fcp-in-a-p4-36/#findComment-51751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tod Posted February 6, 2006 Author Share Posted February 6, 2006 Thanks for your reply! It really helped me out. Another question, this 4GB limit can be broken in anyway? 'Couse that problem with video files... and so on, how could i do this? Thanks again man! Tod Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8338-run-fcp-in-a-p4-36/#findComment-53499 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gris Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 It's impossible to broke that limit, because FAT32 uses 32bit long fields for file descriptors, so they can't be longer than 4294967296 bytes (4Gb) ). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8338-run-fcp-in-a-p4-36/#findComment-54302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tod Posted February 8, 2006 Author Share Posted February 8, 2006 Well... thanks, i think i must work with small videos than. And by the way, do you guys know any patches to make my graphics card (GeForce 7800 GTX 256) and my mother board (P4N Diamond) works perfectly with the OS? (sound fails as it is "onboard"...) Thanks for all the assistence! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8338-run-fcp-in-a-p4-36/#findComment-54321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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