iMovie or Roxio for Mac! are good enough.

On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:19 PM, John Carmonne <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:11 PM, jason wrote:
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>> Hey everyone, sorry it took me a whole day to get back to the
>> discussion.  So, to elaborate further on the system in question, I got
>> it on an auction site as "parts or repair" --the case was listed as in
>> good shape.  When I got it yesterday through the USPS, it looked like
>> it had been dropped, the seller didn't package it very well, and so
>> the feet on one side of the case were broken at the rivets...I was a
>> little skeptical of it working...
>> My 13 and 11 year old boys were rubbing their hands together to see if
>> it would work(mouths watering, so to speak).  I let them at it, at
>> they had it up and running with a firewire drive.  My older son
>> couldn't tell for sure if the superdrive was working or not, so he put
>> an old dvd drive in, which worked fine.
>> I got a new 1Tb hard drive in this afternoon before I left for work,
>> so I let it install 10.4, and the boys were going to fiddle around
>> with it for me.
>> It has a radeon 9600 pro card, it was the first edition(?) 1.8 g5 with
>> the pci-x slots, I just got a couple of 512 sticks of ram, in case it
>> didn't work, and an adc display.
>> 
>> So I guess for now, it's up and running.  Other than the case being
>> beaten(!) up (hopefully nothing else is fractured) it seems to be
>> running ok.  Not bad for 49 bucks+shipping...  Although in retrospect,
>> I guess I should have asked the seller to be generous on the
>> packaging.
>> 
>> I would like to convert some mini-dv movies to dvd, anyone have any
>> preferences for software other than ProTools?
>> 
>> Any suggestions for other software for a cheapskate?
>> Thanks all.
>> Jason
>> 
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> What feet are you saying are broken? My G5 has no feet.
> 
> I use Visual Hub for all DVD conversions easy to use, a no brainer, so far 
> it's made a DVD from anything I throw at it.
> 
> John Carmonne
> Yorba Linda CA
> 92886 USA
> Sent from my MBP
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