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To: tcmay who wrote (138483)	7/1/2001 3:47:46 PM
From: tcmay	Respond to of 186894

I mean rudedog, not Dan I wrote: << (Some of my comments below are explanations of what DV is, how Firewire works, what FinalCut Pro and iMovie are, etc. I'm sure Dan knows about these things. I'm explaining these things for other people's benefit, not to cast any aspersions on Dan's knowledge.) >> This was directed at rudedog, not Dan. I saw the "Dan-" reference and forgot who wrote the original post. --Tim May

To: tcmay who wrote (138483)	7/2/2001 2:39:04 AM
From: Dave Budde	Respond to of 186894

I've used both iMovie and Final Cut Pro. Both programs work extremely well. iMovie is very simple to use and has enough features for most non-professional applications. Final Cut Pro has virtually everything you could imagine wanting for DV editing and then some. It is full of features, but it's also expensive ($1K). There's a steep learning curve to Final Cut Pro. iMovie takes about 10 minutes to get through the tutorial and you're up and editing in no time. Some good web sites for people interested in DV are: 2-pop.com bealecorner.com If you haven't witnessed NLE editing of DV data using one of these programs, well, you really should. Like Tim says...it's a jaw dropper. It's a reason in itself to get a Mac. These programs work well on a 450MHz G4 Mac with 256M of RAM.

To: tcmay who wrote (138483)	7/3/2001 2:12:41 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tim - thanks for the insights. I had been using Studio DV from Pinnacle - it came with my Presario. I upgraded to a Matrox 2500 system. If you have not tried it, you will be "dazzled" - it does input and conversion to various formats including MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 in real time, and you can edit effects and see the results on a separate monitor, also in real time. That came with Adobe Premier, and a bunch of other tools for DV crazies. I have a pair of Adaptec 2400 IDE RAID arrays, each running 4 80GB 7200 RPM drives in a stripe set, each on its own PCI bus, for a total of 640GB. Those babies can move some data. Each of the 8 drives has its own 100MB channel, and with striping and 128MB Cache on the controller I don't seem to have a lot of problems with disk bandwidth. With 2 21 inch monitors running 1600 x 1200 and an S-video out to the TV Monitor, the single 1GHz processor sometimes gets bogged down, which is why I am going to a 2P system. I have a 2P ASUS MB but it doesn't have an AGP slot - it's a server board - so I'm looking at an Iwill board. BTW I'm doing the same thing you are - getting 25 years of home video onto DVD. I suppose I could just blow it onto DVD but I want to have something people would actually want to look at. So I'm doing slices - Christmas over 25 years, Kid's birthdays, other kinds of significant events. To do that I'm breaking the video into bite sized chunks with a little indexing, so I can assemble stuff easily. It's amazing how fast you can burn up storage with DV. But with the price of disk where it is, I will probably just add more and leave it all on line. I am just converting to a gigabit backplane so I could even move that big data around pretty easily.