[MacDV] iBook as iMovie platform

[Rod Duncan]

Actually, the latest iDVD (iLife '05) will now recognize an external 
DVD burner. The larger problem is the limiting 03 CPU. iDVD 5.01 
requires a minimum 733 MHz G4.

Rod

>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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