[G4] G4 and Tiger and G4 for video editing and audio production

[Todd Finnigan]

Alan, and also Mr. Nakamuras video questions...

I cant talk to the audio production side, but I used 2 G4 MDD 1.42 Macs until recently for my video editing business (Upgraded to a G5.. lol). I used Tiger, and it worked fine with Final Cut 5.1. I would max out the RAM in it for video, its not expensive. Don't have experience with audio production and memory. If you're looking at capturing video the camera will need to have a fire wire out port, I think firewire is build into most G4s. I think any brand of camera will work. Ive read the USB on the G4 is to slow for video capture, never tried it because of that.

Other - I tried upgrading my G4 past Tiger, but it was really slow, even with a maxed out Graphics card, the Geoforce 7800, a PC card flashed for Mac, supposedly the fastest card for the G4... so I went back to Tiger.

And you will want to stay away from HD video, impossibly slow on my G4 using Final Cut 5.1, stick with the older SD stuff till you get a G5 or better, in my experience.

$300 isn't necessarily a bad rate, especially if it includes the OSX Tiger CD, which I see goes now new for $159.00 On Amazon, so it probably does not include that. I would try have him put in more memory while hes at it for that rate if hes not giving you a CD, the memory will run 20-40 dollar, check out OWC on the Internet, they are great for Mac upgrades. If you cant find it locally, buy from them and have him put it in.
 
... this stuff can sometimes end up taking hours and hours to do, depending on what you run into, or even days, if he has problems. So if its a flat rate and it ends up taking him longer-its good for you.

Also I went a little crazy before upgrading to the G5, I added a SSD and Internal SATA drives to the G4, which took forever to go through 3 sets of SATA cards before getting ones that worked correctly, although it never seemed quite right, plus extra heat and strain on the G4, ....  (Used OWC online to buy everything, and they took everything back no questions asked... they are wonderful) so I wouldn't recommended that. However, the SSD, SATA drives and SATA cards all moved over fine to the g5, and worked fine there, smooth as glass.

And just FYI, part of the upgrade he will do includes the Tiger upgrades that came after the Tiger CD was released, and those can take a lot of time if you download them yourselves, so its not necessarily difficult once you know what you're doing, but its not a quick thing either...

Hope this helps, 

Todd Finnigan
Honolulu Hawaii




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   1. Re: Hi Kristen, thanks for the help (K.Reitz)


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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:32:15 -0800
From: "K.Reitz" <kristen at atmyhome.org>
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Cc: Alan Pratt <genuinebootleg at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [G4] Hi Kristen, thanks for the help
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On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Alan Pratt wrote:

> I'm a super newbie with Macs, greener than green can be so a lot of your suggestions are over my head because I don't know the jargon.
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> Just to re-cap my situation here in Brazil
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> 1) I want to use the Mac for recording and playback of audio and possibly video editing.
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> 2)  I have a Digi 001 and a MOTU 2408 MkII.  I'm hoping to use these simultaneously if possible, using Logic Pro 8 as the platform.
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> 3)  I have a guy that says he can reformat my drive and upgrade my Panther OS to Tiger, which will permit me to use Logic 8 according to him.
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> I'd just like to make sure this is all kosher before I pay him the $300 he is asking for the service.  Thanks so much for your time and willingness to help
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        I would suppose that your questions are best presented to the G4 list as the knowledge of many out weighs the knowledge of an individual. For example, I do not know what a MOTU 2408 is nor Logic Pro 8. But someone on the list does and has experience with them as well. So I must defer your questions to the list so that you may gain the best possible information.

I'm also sure you can gain some valued insight to the $300 fee charged for installing software

Kristen
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