[MacDV] Re: What Computer

[Joseph Tang]

Whenever we are touching on video processing, the fastest powermac is always
NOT an overkill, unless someone likes waiting and waiting.....

jt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geno Kearney" <geno.kearney at mindspring.com>
To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 10:14 PM
Subject: [MacDV] Re: What Computer


> My .02
>
> I have an 800 mhz flat panel, 1 gig memory. I use iMovie, iDVD. If I had a
> do-over, I'd go as strong as I could with a powermac. I spend too much
time
> waiting on the processing. If you can afford it, go overkill.
>
> Geno
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Winter" <winter at mac.com>
> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:47 AM
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: What Computer
>
>
> >
> > On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 12:22  AM, Charles Martin wrote:
> >
> > > Really pretty hard to say based on such a bare description, but I
> > > guess I'd recommend a 15" or 17" flat-panel iMac with Superdrive. An
> > > eMac might also do the job, and costs significantly less, but isn't as
> > > cool. :)
> >
> > I'll second that.
> >
> > It really depends on what she wants to do. Our iMac DV (400 MHz G3, 512
> > MB RAM) is sufficient for video capture, simple editing, and exporting
> > back to camera.
> >
> > OTOH, if you apply a lot of effects, export to Quicktime or use iDVD,
> > I'd recommend a 1 GHz or faster G4. In general the iMac won't be
> > significantly slower than a dual-processor system with the same clock
> > speed since I've yet to find an operation that actually uses both
> > processors (the caveat being if you want to do something else with the
> > computer while iMovie is churning away dual processors rock!). I found
> > out last weekend that I can even capture video and play computer games
> > simultaneously on my dual 1 GHz box (just don't put the game in
> > full-screen mode where it switches to a monitor resolution iMovie
> > doesn't like).
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
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