Thanks Mel. It ain't a "stupid question" at all. Well, the thing is, I make videos with Final Cut that consist largely of pans and zooms on photos. I made one recently about art that showed a lot of paintings that were scanned from slides (you can see it on YouTube at <http:// tinyurl.com/6e698m>). Anyway, so these videos consist of photos and more photos, often in the original form of negatives and slides of various formats, up to 6 X 6 cm, and they all have to be scanned and digitized before I can use them.
What I wanted was the speed and convenience of being able to run Final Cut and the Minolta film scanner at the same time, on the same computer, and in the same OS, so as to be able to scan photos and immediately drop them into Final Cut without needing to shut down Final Cut and boot back into other versions of the OS, or go to another computer entirely to scan the pictures and then move them over to the Mac that's running Final Cut. Just looking for convenience and speed, an "efficient workflow" I guess they call it. But I guess, as you say, time has left the Minolta film scanner and the SCSI interface behind, so we must make do with what we have. Replacement film scanners with USB or SCSI interface that can do what the Minolta does cost upwards of $2000. So, since the "new" G5 I just bought cannot run an OS earlier than 10.4, and you can't get inexpensive SCSI cards for it either, I'll simply have to keep my old Quicksilver around and use it as a dedicated film scanning station. Or maybe try a SCSI-to-USB adapter as Kris suggested, and see if the G5 can run the film scanner that way, with the less capable VueScan software. Thanks Kris. Trade-offs: with the "new" G5, I gain the video editing capability of Final Cut Pro and some processor speed, but I leave behind my film scanner, and have to run it with another computer, and then move files between computers. So it goes, as computer technology races on. Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
