Which MAC for DV Editing

[Jimong5]

any Mac with firewire. My friend and I worked with DV on Macs that are now considered obsolete. The primary editing Mac was a 333 Lime green iBook. MY "fast" compressor was a 400 G3 pismo. The amazing computer at that time was a 600MHz snow iMac. All of these are G3s under 600 MHz, so any new mac with a G4 would be more than fine.

 

[maya]

I've had no issues with dropped frames while daisychaining from my old G3 iBook's single FW port to external HD to miniDV camcorder. My PowerBook G4 has also had no problems doing that. This is with generic FW400 enclosures and an ordinary miniDV camcorder.

I agree that it's nice to have more ports, but one port is sufficient for DV editing.

I agree, I also do not have any slow downs/dropped frames when daisy chaining FW 400. FW 400 does support 63 devices, I don't see this argument that you need 20 FW 400 ports for DV editing.

The external devices that use up a FW port should have 2, I know my external HDD has 2.

 

[spins]

Just to note, all macs are PowerPC based.

I meant Wintel power pc's in general instead of a Mac.

 

[johnnyjibbs]

I meant Wintel power pc's in general instead of a Mac.

You meant to say 'powerful' PCs running Windows? "PowerPC" is the name of the processor that drives Macs (e.g. G3, G4, G5 PowerPC), hence the original confusion.