Movie Editing
Hi there, I currently have a 12 inch iBook with an 800MHz G4 and I've used iMovie to make a couple of movies for school and at home. I want more though. I want to get Final Cut Express HD and know that I need a new computer. I was wondering if a dual G4 Powermac would be good. I don't want to spend more than $2500 Canadian on the hardware and software. I can get the software at a student discount though, so it shouldn't cost me very much. The system I wanted to get was the 1.42GHz dual G4 with mirrored drive doors. I wanted to put in 2 gigs of RAM and as much hard drive as I could for holding content. I have a few of questions:
1) Is this system going to be good for using Final Cut Express HD for editing videos?
2) What would be the most hard drive space I could have in the system?
3) What would be a good capture card to use for capturing video games? What I want to do is to create machinamas, which is using video games to make movies. I want to hook my Xbox up to my mac to be able to record what I play. I know there are capture cards and external hardware devices. Which would be best for being able to play and record video games, I don't really care about capturing or watching tv.
4) FInally, I currently have a 17inch CRT monitor with my Windows machine. Will this monitor be ok for video editing? It's max resolution is 1280 x 1024. Should I be looking for a widescreen monitor at all, like the Apple Cinema Displays?
Any help with these questions is greatly appreciated.
1) Is this system going to be good for using Final Cut Express HD for editing videos?
2) What would be the most hard drive space I could have in the system?
3) What would be a good capture card to use for capturing video games? What I want to do is to create machinamas, which is using video games to make movies. I want to hook my Xbox up to my mac to be able to record what I play. I know there are capture cards and external hardware devices. Which would be best for being able to play and record video games, I don't really care about capturing or watching tv.
4) FInally, I currently have a 17inch CRT monitor with my Windows machine. Will this monitor be ok for video editing? It's max resolution is 1280 x 1024. Should I be looking for a widescreen monitor at all, like the Apple Cinema Displays?
Any help with these questions is greatly appreciated.
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Originally posted by IsThisOneTaken
Hi there, I currently have a 12 inch iBook with an 800MHz G4 and I've used iMovie to make a couple of movies for school and at home. I want more though. I want to get Final Cut Express HD and know that I need a new computer. I was wondering if a dual G4 Powermac would be good. I don't want to spend more than $2500 Canadian on the hardware and software. I can get the software at a student discount though, so it shouldn't cost me very much. The system I wanted to get was the 1.42GHz dual G4 with mirrored drive doors. I wanted to put in 2 gigs of RAM and as much hard drive as I could for holding content. I have a few of questions:
1) Is this system going to be good for using Final Cut Express HD for editing videos?
2) What would be the most hard drive space I could have in the system?
3) What would be a good capture card to use for capturing video games? What I want to do is to create machinamas, which is using video games to make movies. I want to hook my Xbox up to my mac to be able to record what I play. I know there are capture cards and external hardware devices. Which would be best for being able to play and record video games, I don't really care about capturing or watching tv.
4) FInally, I currently have a 17inch CRT monitor with my Windows machine. Will this monitor be ok for video editing? It's max resolution is 1280 x 1024. Should I be looking for a widescreen monitor at all, like the Apple Cinema Displays?
Any help with these questions is greatly appreciated.
widescreen is nice
get an analog/digital converter box like the canopus advc 110 (hooks up through firewire)
i would recommend a G5, but if your budget only allows for a g4, you'll be ok.
DV is about 13GB per hour, so get lots of hard drives!
One word: RAM...whatever you do, get as much ram as you can afford, not sure but my guess would be a dual G4 (1ghz+) with 2 GB ram is faster than a dual G5 with 512.
Also, consider a FW drive and maxing the ram out in your iBook, it wouldn't be great, but plenty of people did editing on G3 powerbooks, and it must be faster than that. And a moble unit can be very handy sometimes