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Made the switch; Video editing question
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Boise, Idaho
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I've been a hardcore Microsoft user since 1985. Everyone else was using WordPerfect and railing me about how great their hidden reveal codes were while I plugged along happily on MS Word 1.0---seeing Times Roman as Times Roman instead of "blue underline, yellow highlight."
Microsoft lost my love when I tried to get Premier working. After 3 different firewire cards and two PCs, I lost that loving feeling. The final straw was when my flimsy Dell laptop's backlight died and it developed a monster crack in the case.
I bought:
Powerbook 1.5GHz 15"
80g 5400 drive
Final Cut Express
512 meg single stick
(Crucial is in my backyard, so I'll prob get another 512 meg stick from them)
I'm hoping that's sufficient power for a long time. My wife won't let me have another Mac inside of 3 years. :-)
Now, I intend to use my Powerbook for video editing (have a Sony Digital8 camcorder).
Do I need an external firewire drive or an additional PCMCIA capture card? I'd like to be able to record back to my camcorder via 1394 OR my VCR via analog RCA. Purchase suggestions? Does one really need a firewire drive to keep up the data flow or will the internal drive work fine?
Many thanks,
Curtis
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
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I use my PowerBook for light DV editing but am currently building a dual G4 tower for more serious work (i.e., income-producing).
You will definitely want at least one external FW drive both for capacity and disk speed (7,200 rpm vs. 5,400 internal drive). Also, DV editing is pretty hard on a disk and you don't want to put your primary disk (whether desktop or laptop) through that on a regular basis.
Welcome to the Mac!
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Cabin john, MD
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the internal drive will do fine, even my ibook's 3200 rpm drive could keep up 
but you will definitely want an external drive considering 1 hour of DV footage is 12 gigs approx.
you have firewire built in, which is what most digital video cameras use for interfacing.
you can even control the camera with final cut, very good intergration. not like when it first came out, vx-2000, and motoDV did not make a good combo.
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MacBook Pro 2.16 Ghz, PowerBook G4 12" 1 Ghz (DVI) Dell 24" monitor
Porsche 944, Mercedes 240D (running on Waste Vegetable Oil)
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