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I am going to be teaching a high school film class next year which contains a production element. This is not my area of strength so I am trying to learn as much as possible and pick the right equipment. After much consideration, I am looking at buying the Canon HV30 because it has jacks for both an external mic and headphones, and records to miniDV, which makes sense for us in high school. However, I am worried about the system requirements to edit High definition video, as the Macs we have at school are Emacs and about 4 years old. I can definitely buy portable hard drives to hook up to these computers but I'm wondering if that will be enough, and if so, how much hard drive I should buy. Also, I would like to use an older version of iMovie than version 8.
So...can anyone tell me what system/memory requirements I will need to transfer and edit files from the Canon HV30 to a Mac, and whether I can use iMovie 6?
Thank you so much in advance for any help you can give me!

a G4/~700MHz device is a bit 'underpowered' for HiDef.. allthough, iMHD5 will run on it .. (not sure about vers6 ); as this set-up is 'antique', G4 should be used with OsX.3.x, QTvers6.x, iTunes vers5/6 .. not easy to maintain such a set-up ..
problem is:
your HiDef imports from HDV will get converted by iM first into AppleIntermediateCodec.. (~40-60GB/h).. this is a process of high computation.. your students will notice looooooong periods, iM isn't responsive..
I assume, your task is a bit too ... ambitious for your hardware ..
MacMinis (Intel) are actually 'cheap' to buy ... consider purchase of 2-3 devices as 'HiDef workstations' ...

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