BIAB on Mac

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 24 Oct 2003 4:58 am

I've been thinking about getting a Notebook Computer for my musical stuff, thus freeing up the home Win XP - P4, which my wife has become very attached to.

I have years of expert-level Windows experience. I use a Dell Win 2000 Notebook at work.

I have no Mac experience, and did not even consider one until I read the PC vs Mac thread.

I want to be able to convert instructional videos to DVD, edit and view them on the Notebook, so the PowerBook is now looking pretty good.

I also want to use BIAB on this Notebook.

The PG Music page indicates they have a Mac version. Has anyone used it?

Brad Sarno · Post by **Brad Sarno** » 24 Oct 2003 6:19 am

Look into the Apple iBook. Save some money over the Powerbook. It'll do all that you seem to be wanting it to do. I run BIAB v8 on my little iBook, no hassles. Apples are great for DVD related stuff.

Brad Sarno

Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 24 Oct 2003 6:39 am

I've had BIAB on my G3 Performa for a couple years. I haven't used it a lot, but it has worked well.

Mind you that the new Macs come with the OS-X operating system and PG Music does not have a BIAB version for OS-X yet. See www.pgmusic.com/band.htm for details.

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David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 24 Oct 2003 7:32 am

Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro work great
I just did a 3 hour music school video on FCP.
Sunday I wil look at it with several professors, over a long french dinner party,, and we will pick the best parts for a one hour DVD.
Unfortuantely even with 400+ gigs of disk space, it was too much to create a 3 hour DVD without erasing lots of music I need to keep.

Photoshop is great on Mac, and Peak which comes with DVD Studio Pro is fine for most audio editing tasks.

If you have a DVcam it will plug in Firewire direct and be controlled by the Mac.

If your not doing a lot of tricky transistions and get the fastest proccessor you can get, then FCP will work very quickly.

For serious video work I will say get the twin CPU Powerbook over the iBook.
It's a nice machine as Brad says, but for video you REALLY want the most power.

I have a twin 1000 G4 and wish I had a G5 twin ... but I AM a power abuser at heart.

One thing I haven't seen is a 3 camera steel guitar lesson.
set up for
bottom 1/3rd of screen for pedals
middle 3rd for Knees
and top 3rd for picking

This would really bring home technique for me.
That said, on FCP it would mean rendering the over lapping tracks more, and this calls for power.

If I had a great steeler here for a few days I would get the other 2 cameras available to me here and shoot a lesson session.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 24 Oct 2003 10:03 am

Is there something similar to BIAB that runs on OSX?

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 24 Oct 2003 11:37 am

b0b, not so far, but I am sure they are writing one for it.
You still get OS 9.2 with OS 10.2 last I heard.
So you still can run BiaB.

I just read that U of VA has run a super computer made from
1,100, 64 bit, Mac G4 dual cpu, machine's.
In it's initial tests it clocked at around 7.2 teraflops, or unofficially the 3rd fastest supercomputer in the world...
for only $5 million.

The current records are #2 7.38 and #1 32.7 (?) teraflops.
But each cost between $250 million and an undisclosed sum way higher.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 24 October 2003 at 12:44 PM.]

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 24 Oct 2003 2:09 pm

"Look into the Apple iBook. Save some money over the Powerbook"

I did not know you can burn DVDs with an iBook. Can you?

Their web site only mentions viewing DVDs.

George Kimery · Post by **George Kimery** » 24 Oct 2003 7:00 pm

I have an iMac, vs. 8.6. I am also very interestedif BIAB can run on it, and if so, can it be the latest version or would I have to buy an older version of BIAB? Big Jim Baron, where are you?

Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 25 Oct 2003 5:39 am

George, I believe the latest mac version of BIAB will work with 8.6 on an iMac. It just won't work with OS-X. They are working on an OS-X compatible version.

I have a G4 with both OS-X and System 9.2 and I can boot it under either OS. (The newer machines cannot boot OS 9, they emulate it under a "Classic" mode.) I've tried BIAB with the G4 Mac booted under 9.2 and the music had timing problems. Until that gets fixed somehow I'll use my old Performa (with a G3 card) for BIAB. (YMMV).

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