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It will not do it automatically, you have to manually play each for that long then go to the next. It is easier with a play list and hit the button to move to the next track after your 20-30 sec.

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[Dan Barter] “can a simple in-house set up produce the professional quality of an out-sourced video house. “

Of course, it all depends on if the in house people have the same level of talent skills, and resources they need.

The fact that a editor is employed solely one company, or whether they are employed by a actual production company. It is the talent of the editor and the resources that he has to use that make the difference.

That is why many places do do there own internal video production, they don’t need enough to invest what it would take.

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It could be a corrupted OS or it could be a bad hard drive. I would have it looked at by a genius at the apple store.

It sounds like you need an appointment at the Genius Bar.

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The biggest problem is there is only one firewire bus (yes multiple ports 400 & 800 but they share the same bus) and no other drive expansion options.

I remember a couple of years back I had a boss that would only let me cut on a Power book G4 with out an expiation card. Same situation only one firewire bus. I was only working in DV but I would often get dropped frames while running it back to tape. Having to communicate with drives and send video In/Out can sometimes overload the one bus. And of course it always happened right near the end so I had to to the entire thing over. Talk about a wast of time.

If the iMac had an expansion slot then I would consider it, at least then you can add another firewire bus with a card or better yet add a eSata card. But with out an expansion slot on it I would never consider an iMac as a serious editing machine.

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Google whatsize down load that program and run it. The program will scan your hard drive and tell you what is taking up all the space.

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Get a retraining order first thing monday morning.

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Keep them after enough versions of FCS you can use them to sound proof a room for audio recording.

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[motionfx] “I am about to buy a new G-5.”

They don’t make new G5’s do you mean a now Mac Pro?

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[VelvetLop] “I can make the videos AVIs which should play on both”

SHOULD, is that good enough?

I would look into using flash if you want maximum compatibility, also the file size to quality is good.

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Even if you do back up oh a hard drive, would still back up the project, graphic files, music and other small assets, to a CD/DVD.

You would hate to go to a backup and find the the drive is toast. At least with a project file & small asset back up you can recapture and go from there.