Posted by Pitstain at adsl-63-195-100-139.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net on March 05, 2001 at 00:11:42:
In Reply to: Vincent - what's the easiest way to edit? posted by Ezekial24 on March 04, 2001 at 20:19:30:
i can't image a pro charging less than it would cost you to buy yr own
damned 'puter and Final Cut Pro (or AfterEffects...)
anything with FireWire will do (i don't remember if there was FireWire
on the Blue and White G3s or not), but bear in mind that DV is 225MB
of data per minute. so make sure you have enough hard drive to
accomodate yr project (raw footage and final product)
The new 733MHz G4s run about $3500 and have a DVD-Video writer
(the only non $5,000 one out there... will begin shipping in April or
May for PCs, but it'll cost you $1,000 by itself) so as long as yr movie
will fit on a 4.7GB disk (single layer) then you should be fine. A friend
of mine got his 100 minute movie done using DVD Studio Pro's
advanced compression features (the iDVD program that comes free
with the 'puter only burns 60 minute disks...)
final cut pro will cost you a grand, DVD Studio pro will cost you a
grand (but i'm pretty sure there's educational pricing for both of 'em
too). RAM is dirt cheap right now... i just got 1.5GB for about $500
IDE Hard Drives are also dirt cheap (a 75GB IBM drive is about
$299... 444Mb data transfer (roughly 50MB sec...)
so figure $6500 if you pay full price for everything (software and
'puter... not including a camera)... and you'll have more than enough
RAM to go around (the most you can assign to any single program
under Mac OS 9.1 is 999MB), 135GB of HD (enough for 600 minutes
of DV).... AND you'll be able to author your own damned DVD. not a
bad deal i'd say.
but since i know exactly two things about the actual process of
filmmaking (jack and shit) you might wanna check film-411.com for
the real deal.