What You Need

Welcome to a high-tech world. You won’t need the latest and greatest, but we do have some strong recommendations. To complete the exercises in this book, you’ll need:

• Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor or better.

• Final Cut Pro X (Compressor also recommend).

• 2 GB of RAM (4 GB of RAM recommended).

• OpenCL-capable graphics card.

• 256 MB of VRAM.

• Display with 1280×768 resolution or higher.

• OS X v10.6.8 or later.

• A high-speed hard drive with a FireWire or SATA connection for editing video files. Internal laptop or computer drives can work, but a performance drive (RAID) is highly recommended.

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