So what is the advantage of downloading to ram disk as opposed to directly
to hard drive?

on 12/12/02 4:10 PM, David Allen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> That meant to video tape the TV footage and process it as a standard video
> tape by
> downloading (via the RCA jack AV In or S-Video In ports) and digitizing in
> small
> clips in the RAM Disk and reassembling it as a complete unbroken file on the
> hard
> drive. Download until the RAM Disk is full and copy to the hard drive. Repeat
> until all of the footage has been downloaded and use iMovie to reassemble it
> to an
> unbroken file. You can then save it as a QT Movie, AVI, etc using QT, iMovie,
> or
> any other film editing app. Be advised, you need a LARGE hard drive as
> non-compressed video can use 5-600 Meg of hard drive space per minute of
> video.
> 
> David Allen


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