On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 06:51 AM, dancurr wrote:
Hello,
I am driving a Beige G3/500 A/V (Apple A I/O) with 256 MB RAM and an 8.4
GB SCSI HD and a 40 GB ATA HD running OS 8.6 and 9.2.2 on separate
partitions.
Is there a version of iMovie that will run on my existing system and if so where might I purchase it? This is getting complicated. I bought an A I/O card so that I could capture video to my 40 GB HD and then edit. Now iMovie says that I need all this other hardware and software and that I will not be able to use my existing VCR as the playback and record deck. SUGGESTIONS, besides trashing everything.
iMovie will not install unless the firewire extensions are installed; it doesn't actually look for firewire hardware. It runs quite happily without physical firewire ports, though it complains that it can't find an import device.
However, you need to convert the AV to a DV stream, which is the only format iMove has ever worked with.
QT Pro will export/import DV streams to and from other formats, but you're going to be pressed for space on that 40gb drive, since you've got to save the video in the format the AV card will import it in (QT mov, iirc) which is large, export to a dv file, edit in iMovie, export again to a .move file and push back to the VCR. With a 40 gb drive, I'll bet you can work with not a lot more than 5-10 minutes of video at once, since at two steps of the process you need to store 2 full copies of your video in different formats.
A not so cheap but far more manageable solution would be to find the cheapest DV video camera that allows you to input av, re-record your VHS tapes to dv, use the camera to import, edit and export, then use the DV camera as a player to export to the VCR. You can also buy video input devices that will let you input a variety of AV sources into DV streams, again, these things will rely on firewire...you're gonna have to plunk down $20 for a firewire card regardless; I'd go the DV camera route; spend some more money and upgrade your video camera at the same time.
Not a cheap proposition.
Reading the required specs, or asking here *before* you buy is *always* a good idea.
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