[cat-n-the-hat]

Has anybody used one of these. I have an Imac g3(500) and am looking at buying one of these and a lacie dvd burner to convert a bunch of hi8 video tapes to dvd. played with software encoding with the acouple of demo programs(it works but is slow).Was hoping that some one can give me some comments on either of these devices. Both use captdvd as the software.

Thanks
cat-n-the-hat

[tr]

check out my posts here and here.

i have a G4 450, and the reason i got this box over a firewire A/D converter is because mpeg encoding on my computer is SLOW! this box encodes to mpeg 1/2 in real-time, so there's no problem with cpu usage. another big plus is the space taken up by these files. with a fw A/D converter using DV as capture format, 1 hour is about 12-13Gb; with mpeg-2, an hour is about 2Gb.

the included pixela software is pretty good for what it does: allows you to edit mpeg files, and create DVD's. are the programs as slick as iDVD/iMovie? no. does it work okay? yeah.

tr