editing machine

[Wen_Diesel]

How does this sound for a machine to do my editing on:

Dual 867 MHz PowerPC G4 processors
256 MB DDR SDRAM
60 GB Hard Drive
DVD/CD-RW Combo
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX graphics with 32MB DDR SDRAM
2 firewire/4 USB ports

I'm a PC user myself but from what I understand MACs are better for graphics and editing purposes. Problem is I dont know anything about them. Any help would be greatly appreciated

[machead]

That's alot better than my Mac.
I'd recommend a newer Mac though. One with Airport Extreme, and Firewire800.


As for not Knowing much about them, don't worry it takes about 20 minutes to understand a Mac.

[machead]

That's alot better than my Mac.
I'd recommend a newer Mac though. One with Airport Extreme, and Firewire800.


As for not Knowing much about them, don't worry it takes about 20 minutes to understand a Mac.

[miker]

you should have no problems editing on that. you might want to get a 120GB hard-drive if you are editing long (1 hour plus) DV projects though.

for comparison, my current production system is coming up for three years old, and is dual 600MHz intel coppermine w/512MB RAM and 2 x 40GB hard-drives. it still just about does the job ;-)

may i recommend Sonic Foundry Vegas Video 4 + DVD Architect as my preferred editing and authoring solution. you can download a free demo on-line. it makes full use of SMP unlike certain other popular editing packages i could mention ...

[miker]

oops! Vegas Video not available for Mac !!

[machead]

I don't like to contradict Miker but I wouldn't advice on a 120 gig HD 2x60gig is better. This can reduce poor play back issues and dropped frames

[jeromecain]

Welcome to Mac's world. You will enjoy your amount of time reduce maintence which you can get to make more projects. Fix the computer if you work for the company like vegas video which good way to kill time. (Joke) Machead is dead wrong about 20 minutes to learn. Basic it would be about ten minutes to learn. haha... 60gb is little too low which you can make a feature about an hour and half but you can load it in it for two and half maximum but edit into a wild feature would be eating your gb real high unless you want 80 or 120gb. Enjoy expensive taste of it compare to pc's spice. Ha! Have fun. Jerome, deaf filmmaker and videomaker