On Wednesday, November 17, 2004, at 09:47 AM, Dave Fales wrote:
I am just wanting ti pick people brains. I am killer at vieo work and editng
and i have been debating on geting into editing fultt time well a helecopter
crash kijd got me thinking more baout these palnes I am not sure if i will
go back to fighting wild land fire. has i have thought mnore and more about
video editng one thing I have heard you need to head inot the mac world that
is why i got this computer it might be older but it helps me leanr the mac
world. question a can this g3 266 be used for vedo editng.
Not as it stands right now. You could but it'd be tedious, an excercise in what I call tai-chi computing. You have to move slowly and deliberately...
You can use iMovie (iMovie and a consumer-grade camera have been used to create Sundance Festival winners) if you pump memory, drive space, that G4 upgrade and a Firewire card into it, but if you're looking at pro-level video editing, you'll want a more serious system.
Top end: go right for the G5 tower you can afford, with Final Cut Pro, some fast drives and a 20" Cinema display and you'll have a serious pro-grade video editing station.
Add in Shake and Motion for SFX and compositing, and you could do anything Hollywood does..at that point you're definitely limited only by your talent. (because this IS what Hollywood uses. Heck, rough cuts of LOTR were done on site during shoots, on G4 Powerbooks. Lots of people have started doing that. A 17" Powerbook + FCP is a very capable portable editing system.)
You could get by with a fast G4 tower, used, a 20" G5 iMac certainly. (you'll want screen real-estate for video editing)
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