Darren Addy
EF5
This reminds me of the old joke about Statistics being like Bikinis. What the show you is revealing. What they hide is VITAL. Sorta like that 2%+/- (maybe).
I'm not a bleeding edge kinda guy. I figure somebody else can be the trailblazer and then I'll follow their lead. If you can find somebody who is successfully running FCP on a PC and will tell you how, then you can maybe try it and have a prayer of doing it successfully, but in my opinion its wacky.
Window is proven to run on Intel Macs (and not just a Windows emulator, but Windows). You could jump through hoops and put a flavor of OS X on a particular PC, but that is no guarantee that it is going to run after the next System Update or the next version upgrade of FCP. If you are making the leap to FCP then they ways things stand today you are making the leap to the Mac world.
There are tutorials out there for putting OS X on a PC, such as...
but the problem with PCs is that there is no standard for components out there. You've got all kinds of potential differences in components all the way down to the BIOS. Apple doesn't have to support those. All it has to support is the hardware it chooses to put in its hardware. So it is more than conceivable that you would encounter some problem and have no way around it, even if you could trace it down. That's why they call it the bleeding edge... if you aren't cutting yourself you are wanting to slash your wrists.
Bottom line... until you can Google "Final Cut Pro" and "PC" and find somebody successfully doing it and willing to show you how, I wouldn't advise it. Even then, I wouldn't advise it if your livelihood depends on it.
