On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:24:22 +0100, "bish" wrote:

>Hi, I want to get a new machine mainly for video. It has to be capable of
>professional results in reasonable times but will only be for private use.
>From what I have read here Final Cut has the edge over premiere and requires
>a Mac. This is OK as I have some other uses for a Mac. Question is whether a
>cube is suitable. Does it have what I need to make short clips and is it
>expandable enough?

Heck, any good-quality recent cheap PC will do the job - add
a Raptor card and a second hard drive, load Premiere, and
EDIT! Why limit yourself!? ;-) And the price of the card,
Premiere, and the extra large drive is less than FCP alone...
If you are doing straight-cuts only, with a few
titles, you won't see the difference in render times or
output quality; if you are doing a lot of fancy work
(color corrections, sharpening, overlays, etc.), FPC (at
least on a G3) was slower than mud (maybe it is now faster
on a cube or G4, with updated FCP software, and maybe
the Apple DV-CODEC is now better than it was...).
BTW, I was surprised to see only three expansion slots in
a full-sized G-4 and not much extra bay space (that is
considered bottom-end expansion capability in the PC
world - maybe I missed something in my brief look...?;-).
Anyway..., just ranting about the apparent appeal of
pretty plastic goo on the case exteriors vs. content
inside, at a lower price...;-)