[MacDV] iBook as iMovie platform

[ShirleyK]

Don't forget about disk space. Video eats up 13 GB per hour and you 
need at least that much more blank space to work comfortably. An 
external hard disk (FireWire) might be needed as well.

Shirley

On Jul 31, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Neil Poese wrote:

> "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.