Video pros are catching FireWire fever.
via MacWeek
>"It gave me the opportunity to start fresh with digital video," said
Truly, now vice president of Take 2 Services, a video production
company in Riverside, Calif., that specializes in 30-second spots.
Truly purchased a $16,000 digital video bundle from ProMax. It
included a 233-MHz Power Mac 9600 with 96 Mbytes of RAM; a Sony
VX-1000 digital camcorder; a Sony DSR-30 recording deck; Adobe
Premiere; and FireMax, which is ProMax's card, cable and software
combo designed around FireWire.
Now Truly digitally captures, manipulates and stores all his
video on inexpensive digital video cassettes. "It's all digital until
I'm ready to transfer to three-quarter-inch analog tape for
broadcast," he said.
With his new system, Truly said he enjoys benefits he once
found difficult or impossible to get: real-time previews of
footage, no degradation from generation to generation, and
the help of dozens of QuickTime-compliant video editing and
image-processing software programs.
"There's not anything on the market that can touch it," Truly
said. "FireWire is definitely the wave of the future."<
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