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Do I need an external HD to do this?......
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I have a G4 and love it. My wife and I are expecting a child so we are looking at different Digital Video Recorders to capture all of those precious moments.
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I may eventually get into editing the video using my G4. How would this work? Do I need like an external HD to store the video data while editing? Also, any suggestions on good Digital Video cameras in the $400 - $500 range?
Didn't know where to start asking .... Thanks.
AllenB
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An hour of video will require about 13 Gigabytes of free space on your hard drive.
That's all you need to know to figure out whether you need external storage.
how much video will you be working with at a time?
will you be storing it or burning it off immediately and then deleting it?
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When you start editing you'll want an external drive. With raw footage, test edits/renders/outputs, DVD masters, etc it eats up a ton of space. Also an external desktop-sized drive is quite a bit faster than your internal laptop drive.
250-400GB is the sweet spot right now for external hard drives, about 50-60 cents a gig. That should give you plenty of space for your baby's first year or so.
I like the Canon Elura camcorders. Good picture/audio quality and battery life.
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Yes, I concur about Canon, although I must grudgingly give Sony their props, as they make nice products, too.
You'll definitely want an external, or seperate internal, hard drive for your video files. Audio/Video i/o is huge; keeping your media on a seperate drive allow your editing software to perform far more efficiently, as it's not trying to access the program code and read/write video thru the same drive. All professionals do it this way, most going to the length of installing a seperate card to hook the video drives up to, so video data is routed thru a seperate bus. Though you don't need to go to this extreme if you're not going to be an extreme user.
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What kind of G4 do you have? You can get a good external drive put together for just a bit more than $100. You can play around with disc capacity and get it lower. Even better, if you've got room inside, you can get plenty of room internally.
check out this thread:
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ghlight=newegg
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