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Long form DV editing on Powerbook – recommended ?
Hi,
Just need some advise here.
A friend of mine is thinking of getting a Powerbook with an external FW drive to edit on location and most of his projects are long form – 30 to 45mins in DV format. He is a little worried if the Powerbook can handle it or he should forget it and get a G5 desktop unit instead and edit from home when he’s back from location shoot.
Any advise or sharing of your experience with similiar scenario is greatly appreciated.
-chrispy
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3 Replies
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Well, I just cut a four camera DV based one hour event on my AlBook 17″, with an external firewire 400 drive. It worked fine, no problem at all (except my difficulty figuring out the multiclip tool).
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A Powerbook will handle it fine, as long as you follow all the usual provisos about keeping your system running smoothly. I’ve been editing a feature-length doc this way.
If the shooting ratio is particularly high, you may consider converting the rushes down to the offline Photo JPEG codec to save space (approx 40mins/Gb instead of 4.5mins/Gb).
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I use my 17″ on location alll the time, but what a pain! A 2nd monitor is very helpful. The best thing IMHO, is to carry along an LCD monitor. Our NTSC/PAL, *and* SVGA monitor does triple duty, and fits right in the laptop case..
Ed
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