[MacDV] Re: one firewire port, two devices

[Michael Winter]

On Jan 14, 2004, at 2:13 PM, illovox at comcast.net wrote:

> on 1/14/04 9:33 AM, Michael Winter at winter at mac.com wrote:
>
>
>>> ... and this arangement should allow trouble-free editing too... ... 
>>> .
>>
>> Yep. Just don't try editing on an old iMac like the one mentioned 
>> above
>> unless you're only cutting and splicing.
>>
>> -Mike
>
> Why not?  People did so for years before the next gen boxes came out, 
> just
> as they did on G4s, which will seem to many "impossible" in another 
> year or
> so...

There's no problem for many things -exporting can be left to do 
overnight etc. I think my iMac was about as low as you could get and 
still run iMovie.

What I've found though is I never really played around with iMovie just 
to see what I could do with effects and transitions, mostly because it 
just took too long to try out  a lot of different things on a slower 
Mac. Maybe others are better at it than I am, but I always have to try 
a bunch of stuff (most of which look horrible) before I find something 
I like. I just didn't have the patience to do this on the iMac, so I 
never did any of the "fancy" stuff until I got a faster computer.

Nothing wrong with using those old computers for all they're worth 
though : )

-Mike