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

[baggins]

Diane,
      you can use a digital camera as your firewire port.
this means that a dead camera that can still work as a vtr or will still
port data is all you need.
every camera i have used  has av in/out (there might be one or two  that
don't).
so this would mean that you could use any analog camera and then port it
though your old dv camera and into the mac...
i know plenty of VJ's who do just that.
as for putting the camera i your car!!!!
if you build a correct housing then it should last as i have installed dv
cams in midget cars and a rally car with no problems.
it's all a cost balance thing.
money on camera/ money on housing/ money on tyres/ money for food.

ttfn
mike


 

on 9/11/03 10:15 AM, diane at diane at mathermotorsports.com wrote:

>>> What you are missing is that I don't do video for a living, so that
>>> was not what I was looking for what I bought the machine. I don't
>>> buy PC's either.  ;)
>> 
>> It is still twice what you need. But that's cool.
> 
> Maybe. But it won't obsolete as quickly.  :)  One of the only reasons
> I upgraded my old SE (1987-1993) was because the following year
> MacInTax was going to be color only - horrors! Then the PM6500 in 98
> as it was a good close-out deal (which still runs my vinyl cutter),
> then the Yikes! in 2001, another good deal from a vendor of mine,
> that one is now running OS9 and will be later running bookkeeping and
> other stuff for my business. The MDD is for everything else.
> 
> 
>> 
>> Me too . But using USB into a dual 1.42 just seems wrong. All your
>> apps expect firewire.
> 
> Yes they do! So I'm still poking around, this isn't an urgent need for me.
> 
> Do any of the USB ones use USB2? I didn't see any that specified that
> so I'm guessing they don't.
> 
> I also found references to ATI PCI units that were Mac compatible, so
> I'll have to see if I actually have one here. Though I suppose I'd
> still need the software from ATI to do the capture, I'm sure iMovie
> won't even see it. More research......
> 
> 
>>> BTW, I like to be called "frugal"  ;)
>> and I like to be called "poor" :(
> 
> LOL. Like it or not I always feel poor.
> 
> 
> Diane
> 
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