Hi everyone, hoping to find some help in this area.
Purchasing the PowerMac G4 1.25 single and wanting to upgrade the standard ATI that it comes with OR add something else to the machine additionally that will allow me to do one or all of the following.
Primarily, I will be using a small LCD as the workspace monitor, it only accepts standard VGA which shouldn't be a problem with the adapter the card comes with. Now, I also want to send the video signal to my TV set via S-Video so I A) have a larger monitor to view my work on and B) have something better to display my games on.
Also would like to send in alternate video signals (IE analog sources like VHS and Hi8) with as little compression as possible. I've accepted that any which way I cut it, there will be some sort of quality loss with the analog video signals being sent in. If I use firewire (either by the long way of dubbing analog to DV and then dumping the DV footage in [increases a generation plus firewire compression] or by using a converter like the ADVC models) then I'll be losing quality. And I've also been told that by dumping straight to a video card that takes alternate signals, the video card will still compress the video being sent in. So really, I'm looking to be able to output to the one monitor for workspace, output to my TV for workspace/gaming, send in alternate video with less compression than normal, and try to do all this with just keeping the standard ATI that comes with the machine and buying an ADVC device. Can that work? Or will the S-Video that the ADVC outputs be strictly video signal being fed into it? Or is that everything from the workspace being fed into the converter to out to a TV? You still follow me?
Any advice on what to purchase is much appreciated, thanks very much for your time.
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