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capturing old iMac
by Josh Snider (eggohead) on Jul 30, 2008 at 10:44:36 pm

I'm having trouble capturing video on my iMac G4, 860MHz processor. It stalls or freezes every time.
I used to capture video on this machine all the time, and while I had some troubles with FCP 3, when I switched to FCP 4.5, I never had problems. I use FCP 6 now on my laptop, but it would be nice to use this old iMac for capturing, while I work on my laptop.
I tried capturing through Toast as well, but the footage freezes for a second every 10 seconds or so. Capturing through Quicktime was disastrous, and iMovie didn't seem to recognize my camera.

I'm going to try re-installing the OS, and change it from 10.3 to 10.4. Does anyone have any ideas as to the problem?

Josh

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Re: capturing old iMac
by Russell Lasson on Jul 30, 2008 at 10:54:36 pm

How full it your hard drive? Drives slow down as they fill up.

What version of FCP are you using now?

Have you deselected "Play though high-quality video" (or something like that) in the capture preset of your setting?

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

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