[P1] Another Question

[MRH]

Ok let me see if I can respond. See comments through this message.

Mike

> From: Charles Martin <chasm at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "iBook List" <ibook at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 04:28:42 -0400
> To: "iBook List" <ibook at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [P1] Another Question
> 
>> From: MRH <macmike at famvid.com>
>> Here is another question. I have just got this i-mac.
> 
> That's "iMac."
> 
>> It has Firewire ports
>> as well as the usual USB. Anyway, I have a Panasonic AG456 Camcorder
>> that is
>> Super VHS. It is equipped with S-video outputs. My JVC S-VHS VCR's are
>> that
>> way as well. Now the question. Do any of you know of a Firewire to
>> S-Video
>> type of card?

My imac has two firewire ports. I do have toast from my previous cd-rw unit
that is now dysfunctional. Besides it was a SCSI unit.
> 
> Even if there was such a card, it wouldn't do you any good. There's no
> spot in an iMac for cards.

Don't want a card. I knew at one time Iomega offered something. It might be
just for PC.
> 
> What you want is something like the Hollywood DV Bridge or the Canopus
> ADC-100. They cost about $250.
> 
> For about $150 more you can just buy a new digital camcoder (look for
> one with "passthrough," ie an analog-to-digital converter already built
> in).

I will look closer at the Digital camcorders I was looking at.
> 
>> I would like to get rid of my videonics editing equipment and
>> use the imac or excuse me the PC at the office to edit some videos.
> 
> If you have access to an iMac with Firewire, there's no way you want to
> use a PC to edit video. Ask the editors of any PC magazine, they'll
> tell you the same thing we'll tell you -- the iMac is *far* superior,
> at least on a consumer level.

Depends on if I can get  S-video into the imac through the firewire port.
> 
>> I plan
>> on buy a Firewire DVD+R, -R, +RW, -RW unit. I would love to be able to
>> take
>> some of the VHS taped video and bring it in to one of the computers
>> and then
>> save it to DVD. What do you think?

What I thought about is buying a Pioneer DVD player that is compatible with
the above mentioned formats.

> 
> If you mean you have a G4 (flat panel LCD) iMac, then why didn't you
> just buy one with the Superdrive already built in? That way you would
> have gotten iDVD and the whole thing would be a LOT simpler.


no, no. I have an imac 400 MHz slot loaded dv model with a 30 gig HD and 256
meg of memory.
> 
> If you don't have a G4, your options are severely limited. Basically,
> DVDs are right out, not possible. Don't waste your money buying a DVD-R
> (*not* DVD+R), you can't use it.
> 
> What you *can* do is make VCDs, however. These are VHS-quality and
> burned on regular CD-Rs (they play on most, but not all, DVD players).
> To make it easy on yourself, you'll need Toast (about $60-90) in
> addition to the aforementioned ADC unit.

Again Toast I have. Just not sure what version. That was another reason if I
had to on the PC I have Nero.

Maybe that will help. Do the Sony digital Camcorders have pass  - through
capability?
> 
> _Chas_
> 
> James Lileks, on Apple's iMovie versus XP's Moviemaker:
> "Was [my bro-in-law's] machine cheaper? Yes. But time is money; I've
> never had to claw my way through the sodden mess of a corporate website
> looking for the one driver that will let me do what I want to do. I've
> never had to spend a Sunday afternoon trying to understand what iMovie
> wants me to do, because it does what *I* want it to do. He said that
> Moviemaker made him feel stupid, because he couldn't figure out the
> simplest tasks.
> I'll say this for his machine, though: if he ever wants to back up that
> 3.3 GB movie file on floppy disks, he's all set."
> 
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