Hi,
I'm going to shoot a short film (15 min) this August. I'm new to the world of video production and need some advice.
I intend to try to learn a piece of editing software. Either Adobe Premiere or FCP. I've been told since FCP is more widely used that it would be better to have knowledge of that application as a more useable skill.
However, I don't own a Mac. I used to work as a computer tech so I have quite a lot of experience with hardware. Currently, I'm doing a PhD in Sociology which translates into me being poor.
A friend of mine has offered to lend me his G4 Powermac 450 DP with 1.25 gigs of RAM and a 64 meg video card. I have a 500 gig external drive. Looking at the requirements it should be able to run FCP 5.0.
What do you guys think?
Also, in terms of importing DV is the quality affected by the power of the computer?
The other option that I have is I could go with Adobe premiere or I could use the g4 to learn fcp 5 and use the computers in the labs here at my university. They have G5s and intels and I have access to them as a grad student but on a somewhat limited basis (eg when there is no class).
Thank you.
I'm going to shoot a short film (15 min) this August. I'm new to the world of video production and need some advice.
I intend to try to learn a piece of editing software. Either Adobe Premiere or FCP. I've been told since FCP is more widely used that it would be better to have knowledge of that application as a more useable skill.
However, I don't own a Mac. I used to work as a computer tech so I have quite a lot of experience with hardware. Currently, I'm doing a PhD in Sociology which translates into me being poor.
A friend of mine has offered to lend me his G4 Powermac 450 DP with 1.25 gigs of RAM and a 64 meg video card. I have a 500 gig external drive. Looking at the requirements it should be able to run FCP 5.0.
What do you guys think?
Also, in terms of importing DV is the quality affected by the power of the computer?
The other option that I have is I could go with Adobe premiere or I could use the g4 to learn fcp 5 and use the computers in the labs here at my university. They have G5s and intels and I have access to them as a grad student but on a somewhat limited basis (eg when there is no class).
Thank you.