I am considering a new computer purchase and have some questions about desktop video and macs in general. I I have previously used imovie in a class I was taking and have a very beginner knowledge of it. It was much easier than the windows products I have seen recently. I am planning on buying a imac for my home and laptop G4 through my office.
1. It seems from what I have read that you cannot burn more than 1 hour of video onto a dvd using the combo drive which comes on the new imacs? I am not sure why this is? 2. I will mostly be using the video in short instructional video clips of 2 minutes or less. Is the editing capability of imovie sufficient or does one quickly feel they need a program like final cur pro? What is the learning curve of such a product? Also any suggestions on hardware/ software for video projects? 3. I work at U of L which seems since coming here to be very anti-mac, are there any isssues with saving video as a quicktime files (or some other format) and tranfering them between windows machines if this were necessary. 4. Also my wife uses SPSS and they use windows at work. Can data sets be moved back and forth easily? Also are there issues with moving microsoft office documents back and forth or opening/ reading emails. Thanks for any info Ricky Bass Pat F. Bass III, MD Associate Program Director Internal Medicine & Pediatrics Training Program Office of Curriculum Development and Evaluation Schoole of Medicine University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky 40292 email rickybass at louisville.edu phone 502-852-2367 fax 502-852-2368 The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be May 28. For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
