[G4] Capture cards Re: [G4] New system...

[James Asherman]

On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 10:21  PM, diane wrote:

>>
>> Then you get into the firewire world and you will realize that Apple 
>> didn't "miss the boat" they rocked it.
>
>
> I guess I need to explain why I'm not using a firewire camcorder, 
> although I do have the equipment for it and have borrowed a friends 
> and was impressed with it for video. But sometimes I really wish 
> people would just answer the question instead of expecting that 
> everyone should own the latest and greatest.
>
> We really only use the camcorder for capturing in-car video of our 
> road racing. Quite frankly, the cameras get the cr*p beat out of them. 
> This Sony Handycam that we've been using has lasted the longest of all 
> of them (all have been Sonys). Usually they suffer from a cracked 
> board. Even this one has its moments, there are times when it just 
> stops recording and once the zoom locked on full (got 10 mins of the 
> roof of the car and sky before it went back to where we put it).
>
> So we can't justify buying a new digital camera only to kill it (but 
> do look on ebay for the older Handycams when we can). Good lipstick 
> cameras, while sweet and sturdy, are again expensive.
>

But we really weren't talking about cameras. Youu askede about a USB 
interface for your video  in order to avoid the expensive cards. That 
is not prferable. A n analog to firewire unit is what you want. If you 
don't think so , you are just being obtuse.
And from the pro video angle $300 is lot a lot of money.

> Gotta put it into perspective: $500 is a full set of race tires and my 
> last set lasted a whole season plus the few events I did this year.  
> ;)  If I put $4000 into a video system that I don't make a living on, 
> I'm not racing for a *long* time. Hell, my race car didn't even cost 
> that much and I managed to make it street legal as well.

If you want to edit the video and do it semi-right. Then you are going 
to have to bite te bullet.
  Buying a mac when you have an older camcorder, makes a convereter 
necessary.


>
> Right now I capture with my PM6500 using the old TV/video card from my 
> old 638CD. I get close to 30FPS and it's not too bad, although the 
> size does seem limited (unless I missed another setting). Once I get 
> it on the computer I can use QT6 or even iMovie to manipulate or 
> export it.
>

> I was just hoping to find something a little more up-to-date to use on 
> my dual 1.42 MDD, preferably in the close to $100 range. It would be 
> nice to get something that will give me a larger image size.

So let me get this straight. You bought an expensive computer , ahave 
an old camcorder and refuse to put out n more than $100 to fill the 
gap. OBTUSE.
had you bought a single processor you could have afforded the media 
converter and not look so foolish to people like me.

>
> Everything goes obsolete as soon as you buy it, however I've gotten 8 
> years out of the current card so I can't complain.  I do this for our 
> own pleasure, not for a living. Sorry if I offended you by sounding 
> cheap.
>
> I will look into the Sony media converter.

Out of produuction . Ther's a Formac , a canopus, a miglio several 
others including Dazzle. You don't offend me . Just bemuse. t
Jim

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Diane
>
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