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Re: Avid Cinema & B&W G3 400 - advice please?

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From: Joseph Mesko
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:00
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Julie,

Check this out if you are looking for a cheap
solution. I just bought one and it works great.
Set-up in about 2 minutes and comes with
 a full version of Strata VideoShop. Paid $99
and it captures video via USB.
Good luck : http://www.xlr8.com/xlr8/frames/SubFrames/Products_sub.html

Joe

Julie Simpson wrote:

> Hi, I'm hoping someone can give me some advice.
>
> I'm looking for a cheap solution to bringing some non-digital (composite)
> video from my VHS player into my G3400, which a co-worker will then
> convert into some streaming video for me.  I've looked at some of the
> reviews of the Avid Cinema product, and Avid's page on the product, and
> they make it sound like I don't need an additional video card to use it
> with my Mac.
>
> Can anyone confirm that this is true?  If so, how do I input the video?  I
> can't use firewire, since the source video isn't digital in the first
> place.  Does Avid Cinema ship with some kind of adapter?
>
> I realise that there are a lot better solutions around for editing video,
> like Aurora Fuse and Miro Motion etc, but I'm looking for a _cheap_
> solution.  I don't aim to be doing a lot of video work after this one
> project.
>
> Any suggestion would be most welcome.
>
> TIA
>
> Julie
> --
> for email, the user name is ghostv and the domain is ozemail.com.au
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From: Joseph Mesko <jmesko1@rochester.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Avid Cinema & B&W G3 400 - advice please?
Date: 1999/08/12
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