[tropine]

I'm about to acquire a beige G3 minitower (300 mhz, 384MB Ram) with a ProMax Firewire PCI card installed. Will this setup allow me to use Final Cut Pro 1.2.5 for DV work that involves relatively light transition/effects processing? What about iMovie? (I know Premiere will work).

IF not, what would you all suggest to be the mininum setup/system for efficient DV capture and editing w/Final Cut Pro (any version)?

Thanks.

Wha? THe beige G3 is not even supported under FCP. You're screwed.

Get a G4.

Later,
MacFool

Actually I think FCP 1.0 does work with a Beige G3. It's only versions 2 and 3 that are unsupported. Am I right?

-C

You guys have no idea what you are talking about.
FCP, even version 3 needs a 300 MHz G3 or better.
(Check the apple site)

so, you could run version one, but I think it will be a little slow. Try it anyways...

[Demonhood]

it's going to run very very slow.
i used to have a beige G3 (with a 366G3 overclocked to 400) and it wasn't the most pleasant of experiences using Final Cut.
for any moderate to serious FCP use, you'd have to go with a G4. i'd say that a 400MHz G3 would be the bottom of the rung for opening up the app and not tearing your hair out within the first 20 minutes.

[real]

I have a biege G3 runing FCP 1.2.5 it runs well slow, I had a 9 gig HD in there and could ge the DV footage to play in realtime dropped frames all over the place. I had to get 2 more drives and stripe them to get realtime playback evwen then sometimes I had problems, If money is tight and yu cant go out and get a new MAC then try to get your hands on a Blue and white G3 my friend has one and still uses it for cutting it works fine. It a 350mhz and he has 768 mb of ram just so you know. it version 2 that isnt going to run on the biege, I agree with demonhood you will be pulling your hair out if you have to do any real cutting it just to slow and you'll drop frames all over the place, I bet you can get a B&W G3 for cheap, thats the good new, GOOD LUCK
REAL