On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:48 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> >> On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:11 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> >>> What's the fastest method to create a 8GB video image from an SDHC card >>> from a video camera using a G4 1.25 machine? Toast or disk Utility? Does >>> processor speed matter? Does max ram help? What adaptors work best? >> >> Do you mean a DVD? Or do you mean just copying the video file to disk? >> >> If it's the latter, copying the file from the SDHC card to disk, then to DVD >> via either toast or Disk utility would work, no more ram won't help. >> >> If you mean authoring a DVD from the file on the SDHC card, well that is not >> likely to be fast under any circumstances, since it'll involve transcoding >> the video to DVD format. I think Toast offers some rudimentary features for >> that purpose, otherwise I'd use iDVD or Sizzle, if you can find a copy. >> >> > > Just want to get an image off the SD card so we can use it again We have to > run 8 cameras at one time and need to swap cards fast.
Then don't bother getting DVD's involved. Get some big ol' FW drives (or some big internal drives) and copy the video files from the card to the HDD and leave it there. If you want backups to DVD do it later. This puts the bottleneck at reading the SDHD card, This <http://tinyurl.com/3nckepe> along with a SATA card and eSATA connector and cable (or just thread a SATA cable through a slot in the back and be done with it With the SATA card, there's no downside to tossing in a couple terabytes of drives to copy the stuff to, as well. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
