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  • Tim Wilson

    September 13, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    [Daniel Edelman] “Do the firewire 400 and 800 operate on separate busses?”

    Sorry Daniel — no extra busses on the Mac. It’s the tradeoff you get for such a sleek chassis.

    tw

  • Cara Meiselman

    October 20, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    Late to chime in but, will MC 3.0 on an imac work with HD footage?

  • Tim Wilson

    October 20, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    Generally speaking, the iMac doesn’t add any issues. The limitations will be the same as with any other system. There are small ones, like processing speed for formats like HDV and H.264 – but the big question will always be drive speed. If your drives themselves can spin fast enough, your iMac should be fine.

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