concievably…….

[Debe]

Would you be capturing on that iBook, or copying already captured files from your desktop to edit with?

You can’t really reliably capture from a FW device and save to an external FW drive on only one bus, which all Macs have unless a FW card or a card bus are added. On an iBook, you can’t add another bus. On a PowerBook, you can add a FW bus card.

Although FW drives aren’t recommended by Apple for editing, plenty of folks do use them and “get away with it”. However, they are flaky. Be prepared to have lots of dropped frames issues, along with other probelms associated with using FW drives for media. If you are willing to take the risk, it can be done. It’s just not reliable.

I honestly don’t think an iBook would work out for you, especially if you’re intending on capturing.

How about a gently used PowerBook instead?

debe

[Mitchji]

Hi,

Would a G5 iMac work for you?

You could get one of these cases and it would be transportable but would require AC.

https://www.luggerbags.com/G5.htm

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Ben Oliver]

you can’t reliably capture to a firewire drive? i’ve been using firewire drives for capturing and editing for a good 4 years or so, exclusively……i understand the onebus thing, but i’ve gotten that to work fine before.

thanks for the advice

-ben

[Walter Biscardi]

[ben] “my question is, could i get that thousand dollar iBook and used FCP to log and capture, do basic, basic editing?????? ( i.e chop off heads and tails, etc) i know iof course a powerbook would be optimal, but I dont have that kind of money.”

Absolutely. I used to use my old iBook G3 with FCP 3 in the field all the time. Basic capturing / editing will work just fine on the new iBooks. You’ll probably be surprised at how well it will work out.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Ben Oliver]

thanks for the great input!