[DM-MUG] Charity needs OS 10 disks.

[Ray Bowler]

Holly,

Thanks for the advice and the offer to help. Carmen can be a little 
slow in response but I will urge her to get back to you soon.

At 4:06 PM -0500 7/13/06, Holly Welch wrote:
>Let me just say that, although I don't know all the technical 
>aspects of the Macs, I have been teaching iLife at the middle school 
>level the last 3 years. The harder it is for kids to do this, the 
>less interested they become. The beauty of the iMac is that it made 
>all of this easy. Everyone was successful, and the kids became very 
>empowered.
>
>I wrote to Carmen and offered my help, but I did not hear back from her.
>
>Holly Welch
>On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Ray Bowler wrote:
>
>>At 12:08 PM -0500 7/13/06, Matthew W. wrote:
>>>I must agree with Jon. Unless these iMacs are of the 600+ MHz 
>>>variety, video editing under OS X will be awfully tedious.
>>
>>I agree but we are working tight here.
>>
>>>Ray, how does your video workflow include the 7600? Assuming you 
>>>go the XPostFacto route, even a G3 upgraded 7600 will still be WAY 
>>>slower than an iMac. I'm guessing that you're going to input, or 
>>>copy--my recommendation, which precludes the need for a FireWire 
>>>card, is to use ethernet for file transfers--a compressed video 
>>>file from a completed iMac/iMovie project into the 7600 for analog 
>>>output to a VCR or video monitor? Am I right?
>>>
>>>Matthew
>>
>>We will use the 7600 as you suggest and then with the FireWire card 
>>we will attempt to burn DVDs which will be terrible slow but should 
>>work. If we come up with any faster computers that would help.
>>
>>>On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Jon Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>>>I would strongly suggest just spending the money for some minis, 
>>>>if the nonprofit can afford it, as they are going to be much 
>>>>faster and more stable at what you want to do.
>>>
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