New iMacs not Final Cut Pro 4.5 Friendly

I have Final Cut Pro 4 and want to buy a new MAC that will work with it. I am considering buying an iMac G5 2.1GHz 20" (512MB,250G SuperD, X600Pro128, AX, BT). I am such a newbie with Mac and need advice, please. Will Final Cut Pro 4 work on this system? Do I need to upgrade anything or add anything? Thanks a million!!!!

Has anyone out there tested the compatibility of Final Cut Pro HD 4.5 with Tiger yet?

We purchased two brand new G5 PowerMacs, fully blown massive internal hard drives, upgraded dual-processors, video cards and so on.....all to run final cut pro 5. Now we find out from the apple techs that the internal hard drive won't support final cut pro and use as a scratch disk. Any one else encounter such a problem?

Please add an opening and closing "key" tag to the line: AELRequiredIOPCIDevice and an opening and closing "string" tag to the line: AGP in my previous comment which got lost...

I just bought one of the new iMac G5 20" and was very upset about the FCP 4.5 message that I would need to have an AGP graphics card for the program to work. I immediately thought about returning the iMac as soon as possible (at least within the 14 days period). Then I found this link: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/final_cut_pro_on_old_macs.html I kicked out the lines: AELRequiredIOPCIDevice AGP from the Info.plist file of FCP 4.5 HD (found in its contents) as described and succeeded. It's so simple that Apple would be able to publish a short hack AND TO MODIFY THE INSTALLATION FILES FOR ANY FUTURE UPDATES so that they accept the new graphics cards, additionally. Because this "official" hack does not exist, it's quite obvious to me that Apple is not at all interested in users of "old" software ! Nevertheless, I do not have any experience yet about Tiger compatibility of FCP 4.5 HD but hope for the best as my old QuickSilver G4 which is used for video editing up to now is already upgraded...

I recently purchased a G5 Imac and I was trying to install Final Cut 5 on it but it didnt work. It Siad I dont have the required hard ware. I think they are refering to AGP or PCI Express graphics card. I dont know if its true or not. S if any of you guys have more Info Id be really appriciated. Cheers

Hi there, I'm a new member of the "Apple camp". Just got out of the Microsoft camp and have been editing for a few years. I'm waiting for my new G5 and Final Cut Studio. I didn't skimp on the add-ons (RAM, graphics card, extra large HDD etc.) Windows was a horrible nightmare in my life and I'm glad to be getting away from it. I just hope Mac Tiger and FCP are what I hope they are. I'm ready to pay lots of money as long as it works. Freecam P.S. The "Free" in Freecam means FREELANCE, not free. I started out as a freelance camera operator.

10.4 doesn't officilly support 4.5 FCP. Its buggy as hell if you try to make her run. Remember its called Final Cut Pro....PRO as in Proffesional.

"Lance adds "Photo booth effects unfortunately made a few of us at work laugh out loud. So it is kinda fun." Thanks, Lance! " So true. Go try it in an Apple Store and you'll have a blast.

I agree, there's definitely a difference between dragging people kicking and screaming into the future (as Apple has always done) and dicking your customers over. I hate surprises like that, hopefully Apple will decide to play nice and release a patch for 4.5, but chances are they're hard at working making v.6 for the Macintels.