[m_brand0]

I'm buying a new computer this new year and I have my old Powerbook Pismo that will be kicking around collecting dust. I'm starting to work with FCP for digital video editing but my Powerbook won't run it. Any ideas how I could better use my older machine in the editing process? Any of you producers/editors have any ideas how I can better use my old machine?

Thanks for the suggestions.

[tooki]

My Pismo runs Final Cut Pro just fine. It just can't do real-time effects.

tooki

[vmarks]

The Pismo was *THE* Final Cut Pro laptop until the Ti400/500 came along.

CNN even had a feature on how they edited a whole piece in the field on Pismo laptops.

Of course, the first PowerBook to be sold for use with Final Cut Pro was the Lombard, G3/333 and G3/400.

If I were you, I'd give vmarks (me!) the pismo.

BUT SERIOUSLY-

If I were you, I would use the Pismo for logging footage. Use it to play back your tapes, make a log of them, then take the log and camera to your other machine, feed it the log and let it capture from the log unattended.

But that's just me.