> I'd be interested to hear about the G3/450 after your first editing > attempt, or at least how the download goes. > My initial goal is to squirrel away the old analog files for editing later. > > Alan >
Here's my follow-up: Well, I couldn't find a cheap card w/o VIA chipset, but it was late, I wanted FireWire, and I was still in a PC shop, so I bought a 40 and something Euro 4-port Firewire card built by a German manufacturer, "Dawicontrol", with a Texas Instruments 1394 Chipset. At home, I first thought I made a mistake, the manual says it has to be installed in a "Busmaster" slot (isn't that slot A or B in the S900?), but it works like a charm in slot E, plug and play in OS 9 and OS X. Video editing works flawlessly, I use a Sony camcorder borrowed from a friend, and had no problems recording more than 1 Gig of video at once to my HD. I used iMovie 1 in OS 9.2.2. Exporting to Quicktime (Sorenson) could be a little bit faster, but all in all, my S900 does a pretty good job. In OS X 10.2.4, I get different results: I already optimized my HD for video, it's an 30GB ATA66 Western Digital with a free 10GB partition, but after some seconds, iMovie 2 comes up with an error message saying my hard disk is to slow. Hmm, but it's fast enough in 9.2.2, so just another reason to stay away from OS X :-) Thanks again for the tips, Chrisso -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
