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20″ iMac (pre Intel) for HVX200 P2 editing
Hi,
I have an opportunity to buy a new (pre Intel) 20″ IMac 2.1/512/250 Gb very cheaply. I’m presently editng a documentary in DVCam which should work fine with FCP4.5. I am wondering if with extra ram and an upgrade to FCP 5.04, it could also serve to edit DVPro50 and DVProHD from a HVX200 (P2)?Thanks
Kalunga
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4 Replies
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It should work well enough. The biggest bottleneck will be storage as I think an external firewire drive is your only option. You’re not going to get the most amazing performance out of it in terms of real-time previews or DVD-compression times, but you should be able to get editing work done with those formats without too much trouble.
The one I can’t say for certain is DVCPROHD. I have heard of people editing it on Powerbooks, however, so you should be fine as that computer should out-do any Powerbook.
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An iMac won’t be all that great a platform for DVCPro 50, certainly not for DVCPro HD. You’ll need faster drives to be able to handle those formats reliably. There are no FW800 ports on an iMac, so you can’t get any faster than FW400. No bueno.
Kevin Monahan
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I too have an oppertunity to get a cheap 20″ iMac, loaded up with Ram and everything.
I’ll just be cutting in DV. Will the iMac be sufficient? I won’t be cutting anything longer than 2 minutes.
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The iMac will be perfectly fine for editing DV.
But to back Telly (Kevin) up, the iMac will not be good for DVCPRO 50 or DVCPRO HD. For those formats you need at least firewire 800, and the iMacs do not support that.
Shane
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net
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