i know thats a rather definate statement in the subject, but when you really get down to brass tacks, its as simple as this: macs (g3/4's) with final cut pro loaded on them (included with that, a firewire to svideo/digital audio conversion box of some sort to wire to your decks) are quite possibly the best suited for high quality (meaning pure digital) video on the consumer/prosumer level. x86/athlon/what have you isnt really a viable solution; software like media100 or adobe premiere or avid cinema dont really make the cut, so to speak.
thats just how it is.
in terms of software, again, with suggestions like avid pouring in.. avid is the family sunday stroll of non-linear editing. over-generalized and over-simplified. furthermore, media100 could do it at one point, but at this point its primarily analouge with no real plan to make a move to digital, so you're left floating the cost of a grotesquely overpriced capture board.
yet, i leave my soapboxing. there was a reference earlier to using an imac? imac dv's are undersuited.. (4gb hdd, 32mb ram?) you need a good 30gb of scsi2 harddrive space and somewhere about a quarter gig of ram to produce anything productively, and after that you need the output capabilities which imac public relations fails to mention.. that is, unless you're fasceted on a digital8 handicam or something to that effect, another peice of equipment that is unmentioned in the small print on the imac dv advertisments. i digress. while macs are good for not much else, they happen to be excellent at video and graphics, bar none. of course, this case being if your peices are consistently less than 20 minutes. anything over that with multiple shots, cuts and syncs it becomes a greater burden on your system resources.
so definately, its a matter of what you need to do. non-linear is just funner.
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i know thats a rather definate statement in the subject, but when you really get down to brass tacks, its as simple as this: macs (g3/4's) with final cut pro loaded on them (included with that, a firewire to svideo/digital audio conversion box of some sort to wire to your decks) are quite possibly the best suited for high quality (meaning pure digital) video on the consumer/prosumer level. x86/athlon/what have you isnt really a viable solution; software like media100 or adobe premiere or avid cinema dont really make the cut, so to speak.
.. avid is the family sunday stroll of non-linear editing. over-generalized and over-simplified. furthermore, media100 could do it at one point, but at this point its primarily analouge with no real plan to make a move to digital, so you're left floating the cost of a grotesquely overpriced capture board.
.. (4gb hdd, 32mb ram?) you need a good 30gb of scsi2 harddrive space and somewhere about a quarter gig of ram to produce anything productively, and after that you need the output capabilities which imac public relations fails to mention .. that is, unless you're fasceted on a digital8 handicam or something to that effect, another peice of equipment that is unmentioned in the small print on the imac dv advertisments. i digress. while macs are good for not much else, they happen to be excellent at video and graphics, bar none. of course, this case being if your peices are consistently less than 20 minutes. anything over that with multiple shots, cuts and syncs it becomes a greater burden on your system resources.
thats just how it is.
in terms of software, again, with suggestions like avid pouring in
yet, i leave my soapboxing. there was a reference earlier to using an imac? imac dv's are undersuited
so definately, its a matter of what you need to do. non-linear is just funner.
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