Hi every1,
I just parted with $1200 for the Canon MV-630i DV camera and am now
a tad worried about whether I can import video onto my G3 iBook or
not. Before I parted with said money I was assured that the camera
was Mac compatible but iMovie only seems to allow connections via
Firewire and my new toy only has USB port connectors...
Is there a cable solution here, or do I need third-party software?
Cheers,
Kevin from Wycheproof.
Almost certainly there are solutions... the cheapest, easiest and
least heart breaking would be to get a refund under the consumer
protection act as they probably (certainly) gave you
false/incorrect/misleading advice and you can not use the camera for
its intended use.
The DV camera will have USB 2 which even with a USB 2 PCMCIA it is
currently not supported by Mac OS (except for the pulled 10.2.8
update and the Panther Beta) ie. you have to have a brand new next
generation PowerBook or G5 to use or be a developer/tester with
Panther beta.
You can choose to wait & pray for Apple to fix and re-release this
patch/update or for Panther to get USB 2 compatibility then buy
yourself a 2 port USB 2 PCMCIA card (currently around $66 at Tang
computing) but, until then, you're still stuck with a camera that
doesn't do what you want.
Using the iBook's built in USB 1:
OK the thing is that with USB 2 video download is that it probably
isn't backwards compatible with USB 1 as the way most of these
cameras work is that they pretty much dump the data (in digital data
format) by playing the tape at normal playback speed down the bus
wire and there is simply NO WAY USB 1 can handle that sort of
bandwidth.
If this camera can buffer it down to USB 1 speed (backwards
compatible with USB 2) then with additional $oftware would work but
you would find that you would be needing to leave your camera
connected to the iBook overnight and then some to transfer a full DV
tape of video - (as USB 2 is what, 48 (?) times faster than USB 1) a
DV video tape could take as much as 2 days or longer to transfer to
your computer (ballpark guess-timate).
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