on 12/28/03 6:07 AM, FA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I seem to remember imovie 2. something that ran on OS 9.2 ?? Yet can not > find anything on Apple's web site making ref to imovie OS 9 > computability ? Might someone have this set up running on S900 that I > may get some comments from ? And or suggest another low cost DV editing > program ?
I have used iMovie 2.03 with my S900 quite successfully (G4/400 MHz Newertech card) on OS 9.1 and 9.2.2 (may have even used it on 8.6 but can't remember that far back). It's an excellent program - even though I have Final Cut Pro (and Premiere), I still use iMovie for basic editing as it's just so quick and easy to use. There are a couple of caveats with regard to working with DV in general on the S900's however. I found out the hard way that not all Firewire PCI cards are created equal. Originally bought an Orange Micro FW card and had problems with blocky video and/or dropouts, both when importing and exporting video. OM tech support made several suggestions such as upgrading the processor (I had the original 200 MHz 604e at the time). After making substantial investments in upgrades (G4/400 processor, Initio Miles UW SCSI card and UW drives, 784MB RAM) and experimenting with slot positions, the card still never worked properly while exporting DV back to the camera, so after a year of diddling around, I did some research. It seems that the cards made with the Texas Instrument chip set were significantly faster than the NEC (what the OM card used) or VIA chip sets. So, I ordered a VST Firewire/USB card and bingo! ... everything worked like a charm ... well, almost. The machine was still picky about what drives it would record to/play back from without dropping frames. For example, I have problems with dropped frames while capturing video to the external Seagate UW drives (Initio Miles UW card), but not to the Seagate 9 GB attached to the slower (10MB/sec) internal SCSI bus ... go figure. Playback would is fine from the external drives, however, so my work flow is to capture to the internal drive, copy the media files over to the larger external drives and edit/output on those. I seem to recall this was only an issue with Final Cut Pro and/or Premiere though - iMovie would capture fine onto the external SCSI drives. A recent addition has been an OWC Mercury Elite 80GB FW drive. If I try to capture video direct from the camera to it (using iMovie) the computer locks up the computer completely - more than likely a PCI timing issue. Playback and export are fine from it however. No problem, I just use the work flow as above. Post-script: I had a recent power problem that took out my VST FW/USB card and 9GB internal media drive. Am waiting patiently for the arrival of an ADS Dual Link FW/USB card from eCost and watching with great interest the recent "ATA Card Compatibility" thread, as I'm seriously contemplating going this route to replace the media drive. Hope this long-winded post helps out ...;). FYI, here is a great link to a chart and info on FW chipsets used by various card makers: <http://thetechnozone.com/videobuyersguide/capturecards/IEEE1394cards.html> -- Gregg -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
