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iMac for HD video editing... HELP please

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Hi

My father is finally moving over to apple! :)

He loves to do home movie editing.He shoots on camcorder HD

We are looking at getting the low level iMac - for budget reasons - but there is no reason to get it if it doesn't meet our needs!

Would the below be okay to edit HD footage on? (would be using an external disc for scratch disc etc)

21.5-inch 2.5GHz quad-core

• 1920 x 1080 resolution
• 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i5
• 4GB Memory
• 500GB hard drive
• 1 x SDXC card slot
• AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory
• FaceTime HD Camera
• Thunderbolt port
• 8 x double-layer SuperDrive
 
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Unless he's into extremely heavy third party plug-ins for multiple effects he'll be fine with that set up...running iMovie, FCE, FCP...including X
 
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Lol @ Nic! Agreed! :)

Thanks Codda! Great news! :)
 

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