Video in for Mac
I don't particularly care about receiving or recording TV on my Mac, but I want to be able to send video in to my monitor from, say, a game console or any other external device. I've already got sound going out to my stereo receiver no problem, just want the ability to use my monitor for other devices. Any suggestions?
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take a look at some of the other recorders listed in the thread you first posted in.... you are basically looking for a TV recorder, even if you arnt going to use it for TV..
Would I be correct to assume that I can't do what I want simply with a DV bridge? No one seems to advertise or review products with my particular goal in mind, so it's difficult for me to discern what will and won't do what I want.
Thanks for the leads thus far.
Unfortunately, there do not seem to be many good solutions for this, and that is also why I wanted this to be in its own thread
<Dodges angry punch>
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2 things:
1st, even iMovie doesn?t give me a 1-2 second lag. I would use my digital camera to convert the VCR signal to DV and use the "Preview" window! If you don't have a digital camera, you can buy a DV bridge, but that is kinda expansive just to play a game.
Second, for the price of some of those A/D converters, you could buy a 8500(AV?) and use that with a monitor-switcher thingymajig (You know, a device that connects a monitor to 2 computers and can select which computer signal to display.)
Originally posted by Influenza
I want to be able to send video in to my monitor from, say, a game console or any other external device.
A different solution might not to go through the computer but buy another (non-Apple) monitor. E.g. I have an Iiyama 4431D LCD monitor with Composite, S-Video, DVI and VGA inputs...
I wanted to do something like that with my iBook as well, I want to record what's on the TV onto my iBook. But I don't know how... I suppose the only way is one of those $300 Firewire-DV bridges. I've heard there are USB ones as well, very slow but also cheap... would that work? Not to actually watch TV, but just for recording?
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
I suppose the only way is one of those $300 Firewire-DV bridges. I've heard there are USB ones as well, very slow but also cheap... would that work? Not to actually watch TV, but just for recording?
There is one big problem with the formac studio. AFAIK, the studio records in DV format (like iMovie input). That means ca. 12 GB per hour recording, that you would have afterwards have to recode (shrink). The biggest allowed continous filesize is 2GB. I don't know if the formac studio also saves the chunks seperately (like iMovie) to prevent that problem. So you would not only need an expensive add on (the formac studio), but probably also an additional hard drive...