I have a beige g3 desktop with a 1ghz g4 processor and 640mb of ram. I'm
using iMovie 5 and it's quite usable. i can't export to tape though
with my firewire card. don't know why. before i could with a single
fireward card, but since i switched to a combo card, i can't export to
tape because it skips frames. still, i can export to idvd or quicktime
and even burn the dvd with a pioneer dvd burner. imovie 4 worked too.
imovie 3 was extremely slow, especially b/c i hadn't yet upgraded the
processor. but even with the g4, it's much slower than 4 or 5. imovie 5
is a little faster than 4.
Matti Haveri wrote:
has anyone had solid success using iMovie to edit DV tapes using an
unsupported machine?
I edited a lot of footage with my PowerMac 8600 and its stock 604e CPU
with iMovie 1.0.2 and Mac OS 9.1.
iMovie 2.1.1 sometimes stuttered on export to tape so I imported with
v2.1.1 and exported with v1.0.2.
I then got a XLR8 G4 450 and rendering transitions etc was faster but
iMovie behaved otherwise as with the 604e.
iMovie 3.0.3 was a total failure; playback was only a few frames per
second.
On Mac OS 10.1.5 iMovie 2.1.2 was OK but for some reason with Mac OS X
10.2.8 it tended to freeze the Mac.
For more details, see:
<<http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovie_2.x_stutter.txt>http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovie_2.x_stutter.txt>
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