[MacDV] iBook as iMovie platform

Donna Bowers blktauna at shawstudios.com
Sun Jul 31 15:52:04 PDT 2005


Mark M. Florida wrote:
> 
> 700 MB HD???  I guess if you captured at 320x240 with moderate 
> compression maybe. 

I captured at 160x120 and offloaded bits to the zip drive as finished. I 
also captured almost exactly what I wanted so the clip size was as small 
as possibly. It was a 3.5 min music vid. Ahh the old days...

> But as mentioned previously, DV eats drive space 
> VERY QUICKLY (13 GB/hour), so I'd say a 40 GB drive would be the bare 
> minumum, and big external drives are getting cheaper all the time, and 
> would be a worthy investment.

I have 2 now and both fill quickly. An 80 and a 60 gig

Donna


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