Hi Nathalie I did some homework a year ago on digital video. For what it's worth, see below. (the prices would be much lower now) Cheers Rod Blitvich
Digital Video Considerations 9 minutes of digital video occupies 2 Gigabytes (GB) of disk space. Options for storing digital video include: 1. The hard drive of your computer. Obviously only a temporary solution for 10 minutes worth of digital video. 2. Save on the school fileserver. Would need to greatly increase the size of the server hard disks. Probably wouldn¹t be enough if a number of classes/groups around the school began digital video work. Also network read/write speeds would probably be a disincentive for this (too slow). 3. ZIP or CD is way too small. 4. External Firewire hard drives.- From 10 80 GB . Price from $500 - $2000. If the drive is not "Firewire" then it will be too slow to play back from. 5. DVD RAM burner. Cost around $1800, will hold 4.7 GB (about 20 mins of digital video). Each disk costs $100 which is a bit expensive for storing 20 mins of video. The danger with DVD RAM is that the standard isn¹t really set yet and in a year¹s time you could find yourself with a redundant piece of hardware. Also only the high end Macs have DVD drives capable of reading the DVD RAM disks, iMacs and PowerBooks won¹t. 6. Send completed project to VHS tape. No initial loss of quality, but VHS tape loses quality with age/use. But a cost effective solution for storage and also useful for getting "the finished product" viewed by large numbers of people who may not have the hardware. 7. Send completed project back to Digital Video (DV) tape. A good storage solution as a DV tape will hold 90 mins of digital video at a cost of only $20. There are no loss of quality issues as with VHS tape. With thanks to Karl Videmanis, Apple Computer Perth. on 11/1/04 5:04 AM, Nathalie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi: > > I am overseas at the moment viditing a freind who would like to purchase new > mac laptop for a specific purpose. Those of you who know more about sounds > than I (which is anybody, because I don't use my machine for sound) may be > able to send me a "sample configuration" of what might work for her based on > your experience? > > Don't worry about price, because she would be purchasing here in US $$--but > remember she doesn't use her computer much. > > She is an astrologer who has one on one sessions with people and records them > > on tape, and who teaches classes and records them and dupes tapes for her > students (up to 60 students at once). She wants to start making CDs or DVDs of > > voice or image in an economical way. > > I suggested a mac laptop (powerbook?) and iSight (which would incorporate > video and sound), with a microphone (once she can clip to her shirt) to > capture sound. She can then burn the files onto a CD or DVD, and there are > machines which can burn 10 identical CDs at once (is this true? I think I saw > > one once but don't remember). > > She would be sitting in one place when recording, so an iSight is ideal. Also > > she takes her laptop everywhere she consults for the astrological program > which runs on it. > > Can she use iMovie for this? Or will these one-hour sessions be too memory > heavy and resource hungry? Any suggestions on the best way to do this? > > Regards, > nathalie > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro > -- (o o) *=======================ooO-(_)-Ooo=========================* | Rod BLITVICH LT Coordinator Balcatta Senior High School | | Chair STAWA Electronic Communications Committee | | Amy and Sam's Dad | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stawa.asn.au | *===========================================================* | | | I Have The Body Of A God... Buddha | | | *=======================ooO=====Ooo=========================*
