[geeks] Recommendations?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:28:22AM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 03:25:09AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > I have seen Apples give an amazing amount of trouble with video editing.
> > A friend of mine had no end of trouble with his B&W G3 machine.  It had
> > SCSI, a DC30, an AudioMedia III, and was only running Protools and Premiere.
> > Despite the DC30, most work was via firewire, with the DC30 mainly used to
> > drive the monitor and output to tape.  
> > Anyway, the machine crashed and glitched all over the place.  I have no idea
> > why.  It was at it's worst when capture or printing firewire video.  Most 
> > people who saw it said their machines didn't behave that badly.
> 
> OS9 or OSX?  This is OS 10.1.3, all updates, G4/450 Cube.  If it was a slow
> G3, that might explain the problems.

It was a G3, speed unknown (not AGP), with 512megs of RAM.  Err, I think this
was pre OS9.

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Joshua D. Boyd