rharder
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I just got my Formac Studio Analog/DV converter: It's pretty neato.
Hey, aren't IMG tags supposed to embed images?
I can't seem to tune channels above channel 13, but I have cable going into the VCR that's plugged into the Studio, so I can record from TV on all the channels there.
You can of course "import" a DV signal from the Studio, but you can also convert directly to any installed Quicktime codec, so you could, for instance, capture directly to Sorenson 3 instead of the larger 4MB/sec DV.
Unfortunately, Roxio Toast's "To Video CD" export function is different than a normal Quicktime Codec, so you can't import directly into a VideoCD-compatible format.
It you capture DV video using the Formac Tevion software (TV tuner, etc), I think you have to use Quicktime Player to export the resulting DV movie as a DV Stream to use it in iMovie: Extra time, extra bummer. You can import directly to iMovie, though, as if the Studio were a camera.
It's much bigger than I was expecting. It's about the size of one of those external Maxtor firewire hard drives or an external CD drive.
It has S-Video in/out, Composite video in/out, Left/Right audio in/out. It has two firewire ports labeled "In" and "Out" which doesn't make much sense to me. I suppose it's just a daisy-chain thing. It has a Coax plug for cable TV, or rather a TV antenna I think. It also has a Coax plug for an FM radio antenna.
Pretty neat. I like it. It's not quite as smooth as I would have liked in its interaction, but if I don't rush the software and give things a second here and a second there to "compose itself" it works great.
-Rob
Hey, aren't IMG tags supposed to embed images?
I can't seem to tune channels above channel 13, but I have cable going into the VCR that's plugged into the Studio, so I can record from TV on all the channels there.
You can of course "import" a DV signal from the Studio, but you can also convert directly to any installed Quicktime codec, so you could, for instance, capture directly to Sorenson 3 instead of the larger 4MB/sec DV.
Unfortunately, Roxio Toast's "To Video CD" export function is different than a normal Quicktime Codec, so you can't import directly into a VideoCD-compatible format.
It you capture DV video using the Formac Tevion software (TV tuner, etc), I think you have to use Quicktime Player to export the resulting DV movie as a DV Stream to use it in iMovie: Extra time, extra bummer. You can import directly to iMovie, though, as if the Studio were a camera.
It's much bigger than I was expecting. It's about the size of one of those external Maxtor firewire hard drives or an external CD drive.
It has S-Video in/out, Composite video in/out, Left/Right audio in/out. It has two firewire ports labeled "In" and "Out" which doesn't make much sense to me. I suppose it's just a daisy-chain thing. It has a Coax plug for cable TV, or rather a TV antenna I think. It also has a Coax plug for an FM radio antenna.
Pretty neat. I like it. It's not quite as smooth as I would have liked in its interaction, but if I don't rush the software and give things a second here and a second there to "compose itself" it works great.
-Rob
