Good day to everyone!
This is my first posting here so please be kind.
Having been a PC user for the past 20 years, I finally took the plunge and bought myself an iBookG4 12" for work and some video editing on the side(home movies of my little daughter--10 HD tapes! and 6 miniDVs!).
My iBook has a 1.2GHz cpu, a 30GB HDD, 512MB RAM, I guess the rest are standard on other iBooks.
I also have a Sony PC105 mini DV camcorder(connects via firewire) and an old Sharp video cam. I can pass through my Sony to import older tapes into iMovie.
Problem: Whenever I try to export a finished iMovie project to miniDV, the movie keeps clipping. It seems to freeze and a split second after, manages to catch up with itself. It's really annoying after having spent several hours chopping up my two-hour-long tapes and not getting acceptable output from this computer.
At first I discovered my iBook had a 4200rpm drive. This, I thought might be the problem. So I bought an external HDD housing with a USB2.0 connector, sequestered one of my 7200rpm drives from my desktop and started exporting from there. Video still clips.
Is this iBook really capable of editing videos? Should I get a faster internal drive? More memory?
Help! Please!!
This is my first posting here so please be kind.
Having been a PC user for the past 20 years, I finally took the plunge and bought myself an iBookG4 12" for work and some video editing on the side(home movies of my little daughter--10 HD tapes! and 6 miniDVs!).
My iBook has a 1.2GHz cpu, a 30GB HDD, 512MB RAM, I guess the rest are standard on other iBooks.
I also have a Sony PC105 mini DV camcorder(connects via firewire) and an old Sharp video cam. I can pass through my Sony to import older tapes into iMovie.
Problem: Whenever I try to export a finished iMovie project to miniDV, the movie keeps clipping. It seems to freeze and a split second after, manages to catch up with itself. It's really annoying after having spent several hours chopping up my two-hour-long tapes and not getting acceptable output from this computer.
At first I discovered my iBook had a 4200rpm drive. This, I thought might be the problem. So I bought an external HDD housing with a USB2.0 connector, sequestered one of my 7200rpm drives from my desktop and started exporting from there. Video still clips.
Is this iBook really capable of editing videos? Should I get a faster internal drive? More memory?
Help! Please!!