Buying new mac to deal with fcp issue

I have a power book g4 and was running FCP HD and decided to upgrade my camera to HD. However my mAc would not capture the footage from the camera. Having been into the Mac store I was informed of two choices. Either purchase the new
version of FC Studio or buy FC express. However I was adivsed that my machine was not powerful enough to run the new FC Studio.
So I bought FC Express. But capturing my footage form the camera was a horribly slow process. I am used the capture happening in close to real time. Now it can take 2 mins to capture a 30 seconds clip. Is this becuase the footage is HD or is it because Im running FC Express?
If I buy a new machine with new version of FC Studio will I solve this problem?
Also will my old FCP files load into the new version of FC Studio?
Any reccomendations for which machine to buy for a bugdet around £1000 maybe a bit more?
Oh and one last thing, how short do you think I need to make my HD movies to fit them onto a DVD given Apple dont support Bluray?

Your single processor laptop grade G4 is probably slowing you down considerably when dealing with the realities of HD requirements. That and disk speed. FC Express is probably not the bottleneck.
You haven't said what flavour of HD you're dealing with, but whichever it is, a G4 powerbook is seriously underpowered to handle it.
As to an upgrade, for right around a thousand pounds - roughly $1950 American - you can pick up a refurbished 2.8 Ghz Quadcore Mac Pro. Dunno if it holds true for the British Apple store.
GAH! - just checked and with VAT, it's £1,499.00 in the UK Apple store.
OH - and as to your question about DVD, since standard DVDs only support SD, you'll have to downconvert and the storage requirements are the same.
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