[MacDV] iBook as iMovie platform

[Neil Poese]

"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.

Sure, it's a start - but the ram is a little low. Without 512 megs he'll 
suffer, but it will certainly work. IMHO, get him the DV camera and let 
him go from there.

Neil Poese

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?
>
> 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.