Ease of editing DV50 footage?
 

I just received a digibeta of a 16mm film I recently shot.

If I capture it in DV50 what sort of spec Mac will I need to edit effectively?

I currently have a unibody MacBook Pro, 2GB RAM, 5400RPM HD, 2.4GHZ Core 2 Duo.

You'll do fine. I edited XDCAM 422 on a non-unibody Macbook Pro. (that wasn't always as pleasant though, but still, DV50 shouldn't pose any problem).

Thanks for the reply.

Good to know. I've already captured the footage in regular DV, but I'll redo it in DV50 tomorrow.

When I tried to capture in DV50 I just got a vague error message after 3-4 seconds.
I captured in regular DV instead.

How were you 'capturing'?

Cheers,
GB

Using a firewire cable from the deck into my MacBook Pro.
The deck is quite old and gave one of my classmates a similar error when he tried to capture uncompressed footage.

I guess I don't understand your workflow.

Transferring 'uncompressed' via Firewire? Outputting Digibeta via Firewire & 'capturing' it as DVCPro50? Colour me old fashioned but I thought Firewire would only transfer a compressed DV25 stream from a deck (and one with a built in convertor if it wasn't a DV25 deck to begin with) ... Far as I know the only DIgibeta decks with Firewire had just that -- a DV convertor built in, so you could take a Digibeta tape and output a DV25 dub with matching timecode.

Anyway, you should have no problem if you stick with DV25, though clearly that is a step down from the format you wanted.

Cheers,
GB