Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] WKs 7,8 Includes picture of new film camera fromFrance
From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:03:19 -0500

> > I don't believe any Mac will be able to handle anything
> much above DV, the
> > data rate and volume of data is too high.  If it did handle
> it, it would be
> > pretty slow and costly (you would need 10 or more 72G disks
> at least to do
> > any decent capture/editing) I would guess.
>
> For online editing, yes. I've tried onlining DV on my G4/350
> and it just
> isn't worth the hassle. For offline, however, Macs are great.
> I've edited 13
> boradcast films on them! Starting with 040 Quadras!

DV or HDTV?  I believe we were talking HDTV...which, as I said, I believe is
beyond the storage and processing capability of anything but the highest end
Mac or PC...