Anybody Have A IMAC MOVIE MAKER?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Nov 03, 2002 10:50 am

You also called one a eMac, we tant usin' loonix here yars knows

Mask of Destiny · Post by **Mask of Destiny** » Sun Nov 03, 2002 1:50 pm

You also called one a eMac, we tant usin' loonix here yars knows

That wasn't a mistake. The eMac was designed for schools. The e stands for education or something like that. Recently they've also started selling them to the general public.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Nov 03, 2002 1:53 pm

CrAzAy!

Red Wolf · Post by **Red Wolf** » Mon Nov 04, 2002 9:11 am

The eMac sells for the "lower budget" comsumer. Personally I'll take an iMac and its sweet LCD screen over the eMac any day.

SailorMyst · Post by **SailorMyst** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 11:21 am

As I said before DVD writer. Not DVD player.
When Dvs are put together on in a file to make a
mini movie than you should be able to put them on a disc
like a DVD. At least that was what the people at the APPLE
Store told my mother. But It does not have iDVD and therefore
it can not play them.

My Imac is a MAC OS 9.2 with iMOVIE and a MAC OS X upgrade/ or second hard drive. 256 MB CD-ROM. The snowy white computer. My mother also got it with her teaching discount so a few things got added. I believe that this computer'd runnning price is now down to $849.00.

It acts like a piece of junk. Just about everything you download screws it up.
Remember I did say that the premier trial would freeze the computer.

Jeez if only there was some type of software somewhere.

Red Wolf · Post by **Red Wolf** » Sat Nov 09, 2002 5:29 pm

SailorMyst I want you to read this carefully. I am not some Mac geek wannabe. I am certified by Apple Computers as an Apple Product Professional. I sell, train, and troubleshoot Macs full time for a living with an Apple Specialist which is a type of Apple store that has an even higher rating than the Apple Retail stores. I am giving you my credentials so you will finally believe what I am telling you.

Any DVD writer (on the Macs they are refered to as SuperDrives) can read a commercial DVD. The Apple store employee was talking about using iMovie for the importing and editing of video from a digital camera, that is the DV is mentioned.

iDVD does not play DVDs, it allows you to put a DVD together for burning. The program called DVD Player will play commercial DVDs on a Mac. If you do not have iDVD then you do not have a DVD writer, period. If you do not have DVD Players then you do not have a DVD drive, period.

Now that we have cleared up terms I think I know what your problem is. Does your iMac look like this:

If so then you have an iMac Summer 2001. It is probably a G3/500 or G3/600 iMac (not super fast but not the slowest thing in town either) and it has either a CD-ROM drive (can read CDs) or a CD-RW drive (can read and write CDs). These iMacs never came with either DVD-ROM or DVD writer drives. This means you cannot rip DVDs on this iMac as it stands now. There are some options available, ranging from $150 to $300 in cost, but in all honesty I think you will be better off simply downloading AMVs and enjoying them, not creating them.

SailorMyst · Post by **SailorMyst** » Mon Nov 11, 2002 11:40 am

Do you think That I do not already know how impossible it is to o anything with the mac. I also am a writer for fanfiction.net and it took me forever to find a way to upload my stuff so it actually appears on the screen. Darn appleworks has been nothing but trouble for me.

Mom told me the other day that sometime in the next few months my brother is giving up the old mac for a windows computer for his office that his boss is giving him. Thus the old ancient mac will be back at the house and at my disposal. This thing is so old its a power mac that has clairis works and soft windows. yes I said SOFT WINDOWs but it would probably still be usless since the model is so out of date. It did have Internet, AOL if I remember correctly yet the connection was always unbareably slow.

The windows may not be able top take on anything new, but it has been a long time since I heard of any updates on it. Do ya think I should still take the computer and test it ?

Do Windows for mac programs even exist anymore? If I can some how update it what software would you all recomend?

There has to be something out there that can work.

SailorMyst

Mask of Destiny · Post by **Mask of Destiny** » Mon Nov 11, 2002 6:55 pm

Well Virtual PC is as far as I'm aware the only PC emulator for Mac still on the market, but emulating a PC is a rather processor intensive task which doesn't leave a whole lot of cycles for doing something like video editing. I don't see this as a viable option and even if it was fast enough it wouldn't solve the problem of not having a DVD-ROM drive.

SailorMyst wrote:Do you think That I do not already know how impossible it is to o anything with the mac.

Well the real problem here is that things tend to be done differently on a Mac, but we live in a PC oriented world so complications tend to arise. Though the biggest obstacle between you and video editing is a matter of having the required hardware. This is a problem in both the PC world and the Mac world.

SailorMyst · Post by **SailorMyst** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 7:10 pm

Hey I was talking about a POWER MAC NOT Virtual PC.... They are Not the same. I want to know if there is any software available for the old Power Mac?

Sailor Myst

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Tue Nov 12, 2002 7:36 pm