[Newbie] Barebone Shuttle & integrated Firewire

sebast wrote on 2/13/2003, 4:53 PM

Hello,

I intend to edit a video on a Shuttle SK41G, and I'd appreciate feedback from some of you who are using this kind of barebone for video (is it reliable ? stable ?)

- The integrated firewire chipset is a VIA VT6306 (OHCI) so it should work well for the capture, isn't it ?
Beside my two monitors (that I'll plug on a Matrox G400 DualHead), I'd like to connect a TV monitor for controlling the result.
Will this integrated firewire port (on wich will be plugged the camcorder) also be ok for that ?

Thanks for your help
Sebastien

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VideoArizona wrote on 2/13/2003, 5:31 PM

I've been thinking of building a similar machine. So we should both learn from this.

I can answer part of your question. Any OHCI compliant chipset/device will work with Vegas. There may be a few deck issues, but that's not an OHCI issue and Vegas is OHCI compliant.

If you use a deck/camcorder that has video pass through on its firewire port....IE, if you plug in a video monitor to its analog outputs and it shows video through it's firewire input.....then you don't need anything more for external monitoring of the video. Vegas has that capability.

If you want dual computer monitor capability for working, then any good dual head card will work. I prefer the NVidea cards better than Matrox as Matrox still has too many problems with their drivers, IMO.

Hope this helps
David