Steve Lewis
June 10th, 2008, 03:15 AM
Hey guys,
So I have been a modest and lowly DV shooter for a while now and I just recently bought an HDV cam (Canon XH-A1) and I been trying to edit HDV footage (on an AIC 60i timeline) in FCE on a white macbook (not pro) with a 2.0 ghz cpu and 2 gigs of ram with a USB capture-hardrive at 5400 rpm, while also asking the macbook to "drive" a Dell 24-inch monitor. So I'm sure that most of you are cringing at this point... however my question is: will a computer that is that slow, still be able to export simple short projects (2-6 minutes) properly? When I export .mov's or MP4's they seem to be of a much lower quality than I see on sites like exposure room or vimeo. Obviously, working with HDV on a macbook makes for very slow editing, but does it actually degrade the quality as well? Thanks for your help!
So I have been a modest and lowly DV shooter for a while now and I just recently bought an HDV cam (Canon XH-A1) and I been trying to edit HDV footage (on an AIC 60i timeline) in FCE on a white macbook (not pro) with a 2.0 ghz cpu and 2 gigs of ram with a USB capture-hardrive at 5400 rpm, while also asking the macbook to "drive" a Dell 24-inch monitor. So I'm sure that most of you are cringing at this point... however my question is: will a computer that is that slow, still be able to export simple short projects (2-6 minutes) properly? When I export .mov's or MP4's they seem to be of a much lower quality than I see on sites like exposure room or vimeo. Obviously, working with HDV on a macbook makes for very slow editing, but does it actually degrade the quality as well? Thanks for your help!