Jeff Carpenter
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I’m always a bit warry of any website that doesn’t give you their mailing address on the website.
I think this is them, however:
https://donwiss.com/pictures/BrooklynStores/h0009.htm
…so at least it’s a real place.
But ignoring the address thing, the “to-good-to-be-true” prices usually are. It may end up being be a camera without any of the accessories that are supposed to come with it and the warrenty won’t be valid because it’s a camera that wasn’t meant to be sold in the U.S. or something like that.
I am NOT saying that this company is like that…I have no knowledge of them at all…but I’m just warning you that these really great-deal web sites often turn out to be things like that.
But perhaps it’s a perfectly fine used camera that’s been checked out and works great. That could explain the low price. I really don’t know, but I would suggest calling them on the phone and asking a few questions before you buy anything. It doesn’t really matter WHAT you ask about, just talk to them so you can get a sense of how readily they want to answer questions about it.
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It took a terribly long time for me. I sent them in before they started shipping them out (so, early March, I guess?) and I only got mine about 10 days ago. When did they start shipping them? I’m not positive but I think I was waiting 3 to 5 weeks after the first people got theirs…something like that.
Hopefully that was just because a lot of people sent in orders right up front and things have settled down now, but I couldn’t say, really.
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Dunno about
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Maybe try iChat?
Go to the “VIDEO” menu and pick “Video Preview.” It should think your converter is an iSight camera and show it to you. You can’t make it full-screen in the sense that everything else is blacked out, but you CAN grab the corner of the window and drag it as large as the screen. You’ll see the desktop on the edges but it will be as large as you can get.
The only issue with this is that everything will be reversed like a mirror. You can solve that for $8, however:
https://www.ecamm.com/mac/iglasses/
That’s a cool little program that lets you change the video from an incoming firewire camera. Things like color corrections and brightness. And yes, you can have it flip the image, thus putting everything back correctly.
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I’m pretty sure that first PDF on this page is what you’re looking for:
https://www.apple.com/support/powermac/doityourself/networking.html
You can buy a card on the Apple store for $79. Go to the online store and search for “AirPort Extreme Card.”
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Joe’s solution should work for you.
But Alan and Joe…are you sure you both have the latest version of iTunes? I had this problem too but it went away after the last iTunes update I downloaded.
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I’ve done DV multicam editing over a network with this steup:
Firewire400 drive > Powermac G5 > Gigabit Switch > Intel iMac
Working on the iMac I’ve edited 4 cameras at the same time from the FW drive. Works fine as long as it’s DV footage.
The gigabit speed switch is critical, though. Make sure you’ve got the high-speed connection all the way through the chain.
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How much is that 2nd monitor gonna cost you? The 20″ iMac is only $400 more and you wouln’t need a 2nd monitor. Probably easier to carry around than a dual-monitor setup. I’ve got a 20″ and the screen is fantastic. For the kind of work you’re describing I can’t imagine you’ll have any trouble using that and that alone.
Not to mention that the $400 will get you a faster processor as part of that price.
But yes, the iMac will make you happy. I’ve been using mine to do multi-cam DV editing and it’s done very well. IF you get the 20″ I suggest upgrading the video card ($75), the RAM to a 1 GB chip ($100), and another 1 GB chips from crucial.com ($189). You can do without the video upgrade if you want to save money but you should get at least 1 GB of RAM at a minimum.
To expand on what Jerry said, you’re going to need the Universal version of Final Cut. You’ll either have to buy a fresh copy (so, a 3rd for you) or pay $50 to crossgrade one of your current ones. That involves sending Apple the discs and you’d have to take it off of one of your other computers. So long as you do that part it’s perfectly ok, however. Search Apple’s website for “Final Cut Crossgrade”.
Also, if you’re gonna be traveling, you should get a case for the computer:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/LTA%20Projects/851236001091/
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So, it’s ok to totally wipe away EVERYTHING on the computer, right?
Put the OS X CD in the computer and re-start it holding the “C” key.
When the installation screen comes up click the first ‘ok’ button (or whatever it is) and you should see a normal Apple-menu bar across the top of the screen. Find the ‘Disc Utility’ in there and select the system hard drive. Chose the ‘Erase’ tab, give it a new name and set it to “Mac OS Extended Format” with journaling on. I THINK that there should be an advanced option window you can open where you can tell it to write zeros to the whole hard drive first. That might take an hour but it’s your safest bet.
Once that’s done go back to the installation part of the CD and do everything it says to do. Once you’re up and online, run the System Update in the Apple menu. Restart when it’s done and check it again. Do that as many times as you need to until no updates appear in there. THEN install your applications from their original CDs and run System Update AGAIN and restart AGAIN and do that until nothing more comes up.
Then you can finally start customizing your system prefrences to your liking.
That’s about the most straightforward, safest, leave-nothing-behind kind of way to do it!
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Its specs list 1 GB as the maximum. I don’t have any experience with eMacs but with other computers I’ve used that usually means the motherboard will only recognize that much. So you might find that with two 1-GB chips only 1 of them registers and the other is ignored.
But I’m just guessing. I would go to sites like these…
https://www.macspeedzone.com
https://www.crucial.com…and look around. Maybe even write them both an e-mail asking what they think.
I do notice, however, that Crucial.com only lists the 512 chip in their eMac section, so I’d have to say your chances aren’t good. Crucial usually knows what they’re talking about and if they could sell you a bigger chip I’m sure they’d offer it.