On Sat, Aug 22, 2009, Sean Smith <[email protected]> said: > > If you're on an iMac you can record directly into iMovie using the > iSight.
might be possible using older used macs too. Apple has technically obsoleted lots of machines with recent OS X upgrades, Leopard wont run on older G4's, and snow leopard only runs on, hmm, whatchamacalit hardware, the stuff we all thought Macs would obsolete some day. The older G4 I use now was a gift, still useful, even for the video you are talking about; street value might be $400, if I could find a buyer; much of that lies in the PCI cards and memory I added to it. Look to mac resellers for info, most of them are happy to correspond and configure your new toy with memory, support for todays hard drives, a way to connect whatever camera you are using. Firwwire is built into many G4 machines, but not all; however a pci card fixes that cheaply; and drivers are built in. The ilife suite of applications was bundled with G4's when they were new, but often is long gone for a used machine; however, ilife08 is available for those machies running Tiger (like mine), and ilife 09 is current an will run on any machine using the leopard version of OSX operating system; neither ilfe versino is terribly expensive. Whichever OS you are using, you should own a set of the DVD or CD install media; apple will have updaters for it that you can download for free. Once you have your Tiger system patched up to 10.4.11 you should copy it to a flash drive or burn it to DVD for a backup. Then the fun begins! -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
