04-16-2007, 02:38 PM
[quote M A V I C]By now you must have reached the same assessment as us: The 13" MacBook *IS* a "slouch" when it comes to [...] Tiger Core Image effects.
Now ya know.
Well, not really.
I don't do Core Image effects on video routinely -- that's not what I understand most people mean when they say they want to "do video." I understand them to mean that they want to run iMovie and perhaps FCE and do some basic playback, editing and the occasional effect in video. The BlackBook handles that stuff just fine.
If you compare it to greater, later, more expensive machines, then yes the results are humbling. But I only compare mine to what I had *before* it -- and it does a MUCH better job with video than my previous machine (a G4 iBook).
If I was doing this professionally, I wouldn't even be looking at a BlackBook, so the point is moot. My point was that doing video on a BlackBook is a) possible and b) works fine despite the limitation of no indepedent video card. I continue to stand by those remarks. I did not mean to suggest that there weren't MUCH better choices if video is your focus, and OF COURSE a machine with its own independent video card is going to do a better job for you IN THAT AREA. That is implicit in my comments.
IOW, what jdc and modelamac said. A refurb MBP might be a much better option, but the BlackBook won't kill ya.
PS. As I write this I am converting a bunch of AVI files into MP4 which I will then open and edit in iMovie, then throw into iDVD and make DVDs out of. That's my idea of "doing video," and it works great.
Now ya know.
Well, not really.
I don't do Core Image effects on video routinely -- that's not what I understand most people mean when they say they want to "do video." I understand them to mean that they want to run iMovie and perhaps FCE and do some basic playback, editing and the occasional effect in video. The BlackBook handles that stuff just fine.
If you compare it to greater, later, more expensive machines, then yes the results are humbling. But I only compare mine to what I had *before* it -- and it does a MUCH better job with video than my previous machine (a G4 iBook).
If I was doing this professionally, I wouldn't even be looking at a BlackBook, so the point is moot. My point was that doing video on a BlackBook is a) possible and b) works fine despite the limitation of no indepedent video card. I continue to stand by those remarks. I did not mean to suggest that there weren't MUCH better choices if video is your focus, and OF COURSE a machine with its own independent video card is going to do a better job for you IN THAT AREA. That is implicit in my comments.
IOW, what jdc and modelamac said. A refurb MBP might be a much better option, but the BlackBook won't kill ya.
PS. As I write this I am converting a bunch of AVI files into MP4 which I will then open and edit in iMovie, then throw into iDVD and make DVDs out of. That's my idea of "doing video," and it works great.