HiYa Tom, I would like to say that you have an excellent reason to want to be running your Video Editing software and the Scanner software on one machine and with-in the same OS. Efficient workflows are a good thing, a powerful thing! I can offer zero help in chasing down a scsi-to-usb solution other than to note I've seen 'somewhere' a scsi to firewire adapter on eBay a year or so ago. I'm a bit of a creative thinker (a 'Creative' mac user - What A Shocker!) and have a couple of thoughts to throw at ya. I am still sold on the option of having one Mac running 10.3 and one in 10.4. It appears you've got a G5 and a Quicksilver to do this, but I see a stumbling block in doing this efficiently (assuming you've got the monitors, deskspace, and outlets in the first place to setup in one area). I'm thinking of the file movement process. The biggest benefit of running off a sole cpu, to me, would be the instantaneous access Final Cut would have to the scans the Minolta would be spitting out. My theories on how to share those scan files 'quickly' would be a shared 'network drive' connected over the ethernet or airport-type network (I don't know specifically how these work beyond they plug into a router - I guess). The other possibility for a 'shared' drive would be Linking the internal drives of your Mac's over a home network (I assume you have one - not everyone does). I've done this on our home network - it gets a little pokey pushing lots of gigs around this way, but it's a valid option. I also have a thought that to fight space issues you might have, you could put your monitor and keyboard, etc on a 'kvm'? A/B switcher to link both cpu's to a single interface on the desktop.
Richard I'd like to hear any thing you learn about the scsi-to-usb adapter route for your minolta. I have a scsi scanner I'd like to use with my G4 Mini. On Oct 21, 11:59 am, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
