[MacDV] Re: iBook for video editing--MacDV Digest, Vol 12, Issue 18

[Ted Langdell]

Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA
Main:  	(530) 741-1212

I'd think the processor speed is just fine... but you'd do well to bump 
up the RAM to as much as the machine can take.

One clue would be whether it came with iMovie.

Portably, I use FCP 3 on a 400 MHZ G3 (Lombard) Powerbook to which I 
added a 40GB hard drive and another 256MB of RAM for a total of 512MB.

It works just fine.  I get material in and out via a FireWire card that 
goes into the PCMCIA slot, and can--if needed--use external FireWire 
drives through one of the card's two ports.

Ted.

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On Jul 31, 2005, at 11:45 AM, 
macdv-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:43:26 -0500
> From: Dennis Fazio <dfz at mac.com>
> Subject: [MacDV] iBook as iMovie platform
> To: macdv at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
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> 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?
>
> How about iDVD on this? Does building a DVD work OK? How about 
> building the
> DVD image? It doesn't have a DVD burner, but I do have one on my 
> PowerBook
> and could firewire connect to copy an image file over for burning.
> -- 
> Dennis Fazio
> dfz at mac.com
>
>