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I've just purchased a panasonic HDC SD200 1080i video camera. I plan on using a mac for editing the content for home video's etc with a view to streaming them to my apple TV.
At the moment I have a original imac 20" core duo with 2 Ghz and 1 Mb ram. I plan on purchasing final cut express 4 for doing a decent job of editing the footage. I don't like doing things half hearted and wondered if this system will be up to scratch. I know I can add an extra gig of memory but don't want to spend money on updating unless it will run perfectly after.
The alternative I am thinking of is getting a new 21.5" imac and possibly an external hard drive. Would the base model do or would I need the better grafics card and larger hard drive on the top end 21.5" model? Would 4Gb memory be fine or would i need to bump that up?
I'd rather keep the cost down to as low as possible but be able to produce excellent results without waiting all day for the computer to catch up. Would the new imac be worth the money or would the unit i have work perfectly well?
Thanks
Kristian
At the moment I have a original imac 20" core duo with 2 Ghz and 1 Mb ram. I plan on purchasing final cut express 4 for doing a decent job of editing the footage. I don't like doing things half hearted and wondered if this system will be up to scratch. I know I can add an extra gig of memory but don't want to spend money on updating unless it will run perfectly after.
The alternative I am thinking of is getting a new 21.5" imac and possibly an external hard drive. Would the base model do or would I need the better grafics card and larger hard drive on the top end 21.5" model? Would 4Gb memory be fine or would i need to bump that up?
I'd rather keep the cost down to as low as possible but be able to produce excellent results without waiting all day for the computer to catch up. Would the new imac be worth the money or would the unit i have work perfectly well?
Thanks
Kristian