The 2-SATA PCI card is worth it, it will speed up the system quite a
bit. At least it did on my old G4!
As to video capture, if you're not going totally Pro, I've had really
good luck with the Grass Valley firewire units. I currently have an
ADVC-300 and have also used an ADVC-110. If you need HDMI in, though,
these won't work. I just upgraded to an Aja LHi in my Intel Mac Pro so
my ADVC-300 will soon be on the market ;-)
Stephen
On 6/14/11 9:13 AM, S T wrote:
Most of my main concern tends to be regarding capture cards... how to
get the video INTO the program I'm using, whichever that one will be. I
may be spoield coming from an all-Amiga background. And tehn again, I
may eb facing the same hurdles I did with the Amiga:
multi-thousand-dollar pieces of machinery I never could afford without
cheating on my taxes. :D I priced a complete build-it-myself system
once using just entry-level equipment and it was close to $10K. NOT good.
As for internals, I'm strongly considering a 2-SATA PCI card to put in,
then adding a couple of 1+ TB Drives. the 80 and 160 I hve now are
fine, but for future expansion...
Then again, I may just stick with app development (the SDK works on the
G4, surprisingly!) with an intel-based Mac Mini or a MB Pro, if I can
find an affordable one. That's always been my major beef with Apple.
Great hardware, but too expensive. Since my skills are software anyway,
this sounds like the best way to go.
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