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Message text written by "Bill's In th' House Connelly" "I'm trying to capture Video from a VCR, and have resorted to restarting in OS 9.1 and am trying to use BTV Pro 5.4.1 via my built-in AV unit. What is the best I can hope for as far as quality is concerned? Any suggestions for capture parameter selection to help speed up my learning curve? I looked at Miglia's AlchemyTV DVR, but they said it wouldn't work in my "unsupported" machine. Any other PCI cards, or external devices that might be better than the on-board unit via OS 9.1? Or is my 33MHz PCI bus just going to be a bottleneck, no matter what (FW, USB, etc) ?" -------------------- End Original Message -------------------- The best you can hope for is capturing uncompressed at a size of 480x480, which results in large files. To reduce file size during capture you can use Motion JPEG compression. Depending on processor speed this may get you full frame rate (else reduce size). Your PCI bus is not the bottleneck under any condition. A PCI card with a DV out option (hardware codec) is guaranteed to get you full frame rate and good image quality. Extreme capture (480x640 uncompressed) is possible with UW SCSI disks and the JES Movie RAID software. Not recommended unless you have some special need for this. Jan E.Schotsman -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
