Well, welcome to the digital hub. You're about to exceed your machine's capabilities and it's finally time to retire it with honours.
You're probably hating to read this, but I might as well be the one to say it. It's a fact: that system is too archaic to tackle the job. Slow processor (even that G3/350), and bus speed, primarilly. Plus, it has no relevant connectivity, such as IDE or Firewire interfaces for hard drives and burners A quick check around some makers (like LaCie) turned up no DVD burners internal NOR external that are SCSI. Every Mac made in the past five years uses Firewire and IDE, whereas SCSI (which is what a Mac of your vintage uses for its drives and CD-ROM connectivity) is used for high-speed drive arrays -- and it's a newer type of SCSI as well. Now, you could purchase a Firewire PCI card to plug an external Firewire DVDRW into, but frankly you're throwing good money after bad. The other problem is (presumably) your hard drive capacity. If you want this stuff to look good, you'll want to capture it at full DV resolution -- even if the source is a second generation VHS or something. And, when authoring a DV, the video gets converted to a fairly high AND DISK HUNGRY video format. Translation: you need GIG AND GIGS AND GIGS of drive space... and even more gigs. And therein lies an additional cost if you tried it with the 7600. You would have to purchase a large external Firewire drive -- IF you were purchasing the PCI Firewire card I mentioned previously, of course. Basically, DV video needs around 200MB of disk space per minute of video. And then, there's software. Nobody's supporting OS 9 anymore. And the easiest solutions for doing this are Apple's iLife stuff, including iMovie and iDVD. Now, you may have an old version of iMovie hanging around, but iDVD? iLife is absolutely awesome. AWESOME! Having said that, you could still use the application called BTV to capture and edit your film: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/8350 And use either of these programs to author your DVDs: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16251 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17977 I have no idea if they're good or not. And then, there's Mac OS X Panther; a totally excellent operating system. Sure there are some differences between OS 9 and X. The key to moving to OS X is to have an open mind about it and explore how IT helps you to do your thing. Once you get your sea legs, you'll never want to go back to OS 9. So, to upgrade that 7600, you're looking at buying a PCI-based Firewire card, a firewire hard drive, a Firewire CDRW, those video and DVD programs, and some more RAM wouldn't hurt. You'll wind up with a slow system running an unsupported operating system. And the upgrades will cost HUNDREDS and hundreds. On the other hand, an eMac is a super choice that will serve you for years to come. Doing it with your 7600 will not be fun. Doing it on the 7600 will be a pain. On the eMac, it's all there and it all works. Regards MacDuff PS: Here's a thing to keep in mind: Recent Macs do not have video input jacks, which means that if you bought a one you have no way to get your non-DV video into the Mac without FURTHER purchasing of a DV converter -- UNLESS you video camera is a DV cam with a Firewire port. If it does, it'll hook up to iMovie no probs. As most of these camera have a "video pass-through" capability which allows the hooking up, your VHS to your DV cam and the DV cam passes it through to its Firewire port. CHECK FIRST for these details. On 6/16/04 2:46 PM, "Steve Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I am running a 7600/120 that has been upgraded in the processor to g3 > 350. I am now > running Classic 9.1 I have about 180 mgs of ram. -This computer has RCA Jacks > in the back. My > wife wants me to burn family videos(some new of our kids, some that were > recorded from old > Super 8 fims) onto DVD roms for safekeeping, and to put music to them. I am > assuming that I > could hook up the RCA jacks to my video machine and just put it on play? The > OS must see > that the RCA jacks are there? > > My 2 part question is this. What drive could I use for this? Can I simply > replace the 4x cd > rom that is in this? Is there a multi purpose drive that I could still use as > a CD Rom > drive? (This old desktop just has one bay) And what software would I need for > this task? It > just has to be easy to use. The ultimate purpose would be so that she could > just pop a disk > into our regular DVD player and watch the videos. Any suggestions would be > helpful. Sorry if > this isn�t as technical a question as usual. -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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