[MacDV] iBook as iMovie platform

[Neil Poese]

Actually, if I understand correctly, you won't be able to use iDVD with 
the system since it probably  doesn't have a Superdrive and iDVD won't 
see an external burner; however there is a hack that opens iDVD to 
external burners. Toast will certainly do the job - but without the 
templates of iDVD. This gets down to a question of how much DVD 
authoring he'll want to do. But as Jamie said, it all depends on your 
boy; and the likelihood is that simply burning his movies to DVD should 
suffice. You might consider buying a tabletop DVD recorder, since they 
burn in real time.

FWIW,
Neil Poese

Donna Bowers wrote:

> Neil Poese wrote:
>
>> "too slow" is always relative. When they first came out I remember 
>> starting with the original iMac G3, running somewhere around 300 mhz 
>> and 64 megs of ram. It was at a school that got them and wanted to 
>> try video! It worked - barely.
>
>
> I did music videos on a 5215 with 160 megs of memory and a 700MB hd. 
> Sure it was slow but it worked perfectly... Avid Videoshop and the 
> video input card...
>
>> Dennis Fazio wrote:
>>
>>> My son wants to get a digital movie camera. He has an older G3 
>>> iBook, 800Mhz, 384Mbye memory. Would this be a reasonable platform 
>>> to import and edit his movies or would it be considered too slow? 
>>> Anyone using this or a similar platform doing OK with it?
>>
>
> I've done editing on a similar book and it'll work fine as long as you 
> realise it won't be realtime, and the rendering will take a long time. 
> It's all in the expectation.
>
>>>
>>> How about iDVD on this? Does building a DVD work OK? 
>>
> Can't say as I did VCD & SVCDs on mine... but I  imagine Toast would 
> do a perfectly servicible image.
>
>
> Donna
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