Digital Video Editing with Final Cut Express

Appendix CThe Hardware forEditing with FinalCut Express

What You Need for Final Cut Express: The Basic Firewire Setup

What is necessary for a complete turnkey Final Cut Express nonlinear editing station? That is a loaded question, and the answer depends primarily on what you want to do with it. But if what you want is a base-level editing station that captures, edits, and outputs lossless video through Firewire, then here is the bottom-line configuration that is required for Final Cut Express to perform correctly.

• An Apple Macintosh Computer with a 300 MHz or faster G3 or G4 processor and built-in Firewire ports (additional processor speed required for RT effects)
• Mac OSX version 10.2 or later
• Apple QuickTime version 6 or later
• 256MB or more ...