Can't comment on the mac pro machines, but would love to be able to! We are just running iMacs.

We ditched Final cut a few years ago now and switched to premier cos we had it anyway with creative suite and it was fully 64bit and had a fairly simple learning curve, at least for the basic stuff, so long as you were used to using adobe software - which my students are. I know various other departments have done the same thing.

We have our macs networked through microsoft servers with no mac enterprise support and it is a pain in the proverbial as scratch disks etc. revert to network drives and clog up networks and max out accounts all the time. We have pulled most of our editing machines off network or set up local accounts without internet access (to keep JANET happy). 

They work perfectly well in this capacity though.

Depending on how your IT team have your macs networked you may or may not have the same issues.

Let me know how it pans out though, I'd love to improve the situation with our editing suites.

Tom Hignett,
Technical Demonstrator (Design),
Art & Design Department, Faculty of Arts & Media,
University of Chester, Kingsway Campus, Chester  CH2 2LB,
Office 01244 515786  Mobile 07841 256917

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From: Sharing Technical Teaching and Learning Practice [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Kirk Laws-Chapman [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 February 2016 18:50
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Subject: Technical Teaching - Video editing

Hi everyone,

Has anyone got experience of deploying the current version of the Mac Pro (the Trash Can) in computer labs, studios or workshops for video editing with Final Cut Pro?
My own research and gut feeling is that it's time to move away from Mac as enterprise hardware.

I'm upgrading some 90 workstations in 3 labs of the previous tower version of the MP this summer, and indications on suitability and reliability are pointing us away from the Mac and over to PC using Premier Pro.

This is probably not the ideal place to post this so I won't elaborate at this point, but I'd be really interested and very grateful to know if anyone can comment or point me to another forum that is a better location for this subject - or even if you have colleagues who I could discuss this with.

Many thanks

Kirk