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Old 02-27-2008, 03:05 PM
Do you know how many GBs Final Cut Studio 2 or Final Cut Express take up? Just wondering, might save up for Express...maybe look for Studio for cheap...and by the way, I have a MacBook with about 86 GB left.
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Old 02-27-2008, 03:16 PM
The Macbook will NOT install Final Cut Studio 2. I'm not sure about the new one with the x3100 card, but the GMA950 macbook cannot run Final Cut Studio 2. It can run FCS 1.

The installation of just the apps takes around 5GB of space. It's just the media files that add up to a lot (around 60GB or more)
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Old 02-27-2008, 03:18 PM
I have Final Cut Pro 5.0, and it takes up about 330MB.

But, obviously any type of files produced by these kinds of software completely dwarf the amount of space that the application itself takes up.

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Old 02-27-2008, 03:20 PM
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The Macbook will NOT install Final Cut Studio 2. I'm not sure about the new one with the x3100 card, but the GMA950 macbook cannot run Final Cut Studio 2. It can run FCS 1.

The installation of just the apps takes around 5GB of space. It's just the media files that add up to a lot (around 60GB or more)
darn I wanted to use that and the media files take up 60GBs?! I could only have like one movie if it would run on MacBook...
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Old 02-27-2008, 05:54 PM
What media files? I have Final Cut Studio 2 installed and I don't see 60GB of data.
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Old 02-28-2008, 05:00 AM
Final Cut studio includes all the Soundtrack pro media files, the Motion 3 media files, and a lot more. It comes in a total of 7-8 DL DVDs. If you only want the apps, (FCP + Motion + Soundtrack Pro + DVD Studio + those others) then it will take around...maybe 4GB or so.

Anyway, if it's a GMA950 graphics (pre-Nov 2007) macbook, then it FCP won't even run.
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Old 02-28-2008, 07:19 AM
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What media files? I have Final Cut Studio 2 installed and I don't see 60GB of data.
The complete version of Final Cut Studio is 52.2 GB .I own it.the rest of the portions make up your media files meaning:
Motion Content
Media type media
Audio Content(3 of these)
dvd Content
Live type Content(3 of these)

For the most part each section is between 3.45 GB and 7.8 GB
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Old 02-29-2008, 12:49 PM
Looks like will need to look around to find the above 50 something gigs.
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Old 02-29-2008, 02:48 PM
I've got FCE 3.5 on my iBook (G4) and loaded the apps on the internal HD and the media content on my outboard drive. Runs just fine.
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Old 02-29-2008, 03:19 PM
FCP 5 works fine on iBook/macbook. It's the newest one that's the problem...
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Old 03-01-2008, 09:16 AM
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Looks like will need to look around to find the above 50 something gigs.
Not sure.Maybe when you installed you did the customization to only install the detrimental items?Meaning the program itself?I actually have an external HDD just for the program.
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