--- You wrote:
My main question is; does iMovie or other apps.
> allow you see and hear the import without having to record it? In
> iMovie, in preferences, in advanced, there is a button marked,"video
> play through to camera." I thought that might be what I was looking
> for. But then I thought it should be, play through from camera.
--- end of quote ---
Yes, Final Cut and iMovie display the digitized video and audio whether you are
capturing the video or not. If you don't see the video, neither does the
computer.
It is important to know that video on the computer screen looks very different
from how it will look on an analog monitor or TV. You may think your imports
are too dark or flat. That is why iMovie and Final Cut allow you to play the
digitized video through your digitizer to an analog display (after it hs been
captured of course.). ("Play through camera" in iMovie...firewire output -I
think- in Final Cut)
When I first started doing compter video, I thought the digitized results looked
horrible. But I learned to check them on a real TV and they look EXACTLY like
the original analog source.
Try it.
By the way, my a/d d/a converter is in my inexpensive Canon zr40 camcorder.
(Later zr models seem to have deleted this feature though other Canon and Sony
camcorders do have it. I don't know which ones.) The quality is excellent.
There are a number of camcorders out there that have onboard real time
digitizers. It might be an economical alternative to a stand alone digitizer
and you get a camcorder too.
Rich
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