---------- >From: dominic palazzola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Im thinking of buying the av card for my beige mt so I can do some video >editing. It looks like I can get one of these cards off ebay for under a >hundred bucks. Im also considering the interview adapter from xlr8 I can get >these for around 50 bucks. Im looking for some input from anybody with >experience on both items.
I bought an InterView off of eBay a week ago for $29 + $7 shipping. It is connected to a rev. B iMac, and I haven't played around with it much. USB is really too slow of a connection for REAL video editing. The InterView compresses video, spits it through the USB port, and your Mac's processor decompresses it. Thus it is helpful to have a fast, defragmented hard drive for the video to get spit onto, or lots of RAM, and a fast processor. With the 233 Mhz processor in this iMac, I'm not getting perfect video, couple of stutters and dropped frames here and there. The highest video size that the InterView can do is 320 X 240, it's okay for putting video on the web, but not-so-hot for dumping back to VHS tape. And, the InterView only does INPUT. If you want to put your video back onto tape, or play it to a TV, you'll need another piece of hardware. Such as a converter that takes the standard video output of your Mac, the one going to the monitor, and converts it to TV type video. Extra-cheap people will of course set their monitors to 60Hz, blow the QuickTime video window up to full screen, point a camcorder at the monitor, and hit play on the computer and record on the camcorder. The software that comes with the InterView is very complete though, it's so complicated that i think I'm going to need to bring the documentation CD to school and print a couple hundred page tutorials and instruction books when no one is looking. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
