[iBook] Video editing on an 2 year old iBook?

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Howard

Briefly - I've got 80 minutes of digibeta to edit down; it's going to be
a fiddly edit (dance to music); I have less that 10gigs of my hard drive
free; I want a professional master at the end of it for Film Festival
showing; and having spent two hours trying out some very rough footage I
actually shot on a digital still camera movie setting, I'm finding
iMovie constricting. This last is in part due to my inexperience with
iMovie, so I'm grateful for your tutorials which will help I'm sure. I'm
still dubious about it though, for all the other reasons....

Anyhow I'll have a look at your website.

many thanks

Matt 



On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 07:34:43 +1300, "Howard Pettigrew"
<howard.pettigrew at xtra.co.nz> said:
> Matt, I don't quite understand your question. You say you are just  
> wanting to put together a two minute short? If this is only a two  
> minute video, your 30 gig HD will be fine - why do you need an  
> external Hard drive? Each gig will hold about 6-7 minutes of video so  
> you have heaps on your laptop. Have you not got iMovie on your  
> laptop? Unless you are doing something special, it will be fine and  
> having a 2 year old machine is no problem. You can do this is on much  
> older than this. If you need help with iMovie, I have some tutorials  
> I use in schools at;
> 
> http://web.mac.com/redbeard45/iWeb/Site/Home.html
> 
> Sorry, there is a lot of educational stuff there but click on the  
> iMovie Notes button and download the tutorials. Hope fully this is  
> what you want. They are not the latest version - sorry, need to find  
> that precious commodity called time to update them but hope they are  
> useful. You can find heaps of other tutorials out there on the web  
> with a little searching.
> 
> Cheers
> H in NZ
> On 8/12/2006, at 12:34 AM, ibooklist2 at matthurst.fastmail.fm wrote:
> 
> > I have a two year old iBook &#8211; 30gig HD, running 10.3.9 &#8211; and I want to
> > do some video editing on it. Nothing flash, just cutting together a  
> > two
> > minute short.
> >
> > Obviously I&#8217;ll need to buy as big an external hard drive as I can
> > afford, but apart from that, is my beloved iBook up to it? And if so,
> > does anyone have any tips about how to go about it?
> >
> > If not, what are my options?
> >
> >
> > Matt
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