Can the 1GHz iMac handle Final Cut?

[springscansing]

Originally posted by Bear
Actually the US Apple Store price for the LaCie 120GB drive is $269. Also, some of the other brands of FireWire drives are less expensive. And some are more expensive, but the most expensive on Apple's website is $299 (US).

I do recommend a Lacie D2 120. It's a damn good drive.

 

[MorganX]

Re: Re: HDD size and speed is not an issue. No matter what he buys he'll need to buy a sepera

Originally posted by LethalWolfe
For DV a quality FW HDD will handle the media as well as a quality interal drive will.

I wish apple made a fast fw400 external with a slick design that would look good next to an iMac. External drives don't look very nice anymore. iogear's ION looks good but it's only USB 2.0 and it's too dark.

 

[giovanni]

Originally posted by Bear
Actually the US Apple Store price for the LaCie 120GB drive is $269. Also, some of the other brands of FireWire drives are less expensive. And some are more expensive, but the most expensive on Apple's website is $299 (US).

I referred to the 120GB ATA/100 8MB Cache at $175.00, mentioned by fleetwood, not the FW drives. Now, I could not find any such drive at such price on the Apple store - I WISH !!! May be he referred to drives pre-installed in the RAID and not separately available for purchase. But then what drives are they ?

 

[zdank420]

Originally posted by trebblekicked
couldn't agree more. personally, i wouldn't try to set up an imac to work specifically on video. With video, you need to replace hard drives with some degree of regularity, you want maximum PCI slots for RT cards, you want dual monitor support, dual processors, higher speed busses, L3, etc etc etc.

All of these things make working with video much easier, but they are neither inexpensive nor necessary. If you all you do is cut DV footage; an imac and FCP or even FCE will do fine. IF you do any compositing, 3D, animation, SDI/analog, even DVD authoring, you need the extra power and expandibility of the PM.

what are "RT" cards?

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by zdank420
what are "RT" cards?

Capture cards that can give you some Real Time (RT) FX and/or output (depending on card and system speed). RT cards, for DV at least, are quickly becoming a thing of the past as more RT is able to be done by the editing software itself.


Lethal

 

[Bear]

Re: Re: Re: HDD size and speed is not an issue. No matter what he buys he'll need to

Originally posted by MorganX
I wish apple made a fast fw400 external with a slick design that would look good next to an iMac. External drives don't look very nice anymore. iogear's ION looks good but it's only USB 2.0 and it's too dark.

Instead of a firewire enclosure that looks good next to an iMac G4, how about this one which looks good under the iMac?