[DM-MUG] Charity needs OS 10 disks.

[Matthew W.]

I must agree with Jon. Unless these iMacs are of the 600+ MHz  
variety, video editing under OS X will be awfully tedious. I once  
edited video... very slowly... on a 400 MHz iMac, and it was running  
OS 9 with a brand-new 40 GB 7200 RPM hard drive. The same setup  
running Mac OS X would be slower still as the OS alone extracts a  
huge toll on these machines. I recommend no less than 40 GB hard  
drives and 768 MB RAM running on a 600+ MHz Mac. One hour (one MiniDV  
tape) of video equals about 18 GB's of data. You might consider using  
iMovie 2 under OS 9 if your iMacs are slower.

Ray, how does your video workflow include the 7600? Assuming you go  
the XPostFacto route, even a G3 upgraded 7600 will still be WAY  
slower than an iMac. I'm guessing that you're going to input, or  
copy--my recommendation, which precludes the need for a FireWire  
card, is to use ethernet for file transfers--a compressed video file  
from a completed iMac/iMovie project into the 7600 for analog output  
to a VCR or video monitor? Am I right?

Matthew

On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Jon Thompson wrote:

> I would strongly suggest just spending the money for some minis, if  
> the nonprofit can afford it, as they are going to be much faster  
> and more stable at what you want to do.