help for mac

[samunderscore]

im from a church ranging 200-300 congergations in the Philippines and i just need some advice on developing the media ministry in our church. its just me and my team are very enthusiastic on this ministry. we want to advance...but we have very very low budget.

we use macbook and pro presenter for our lyric presentation and our plans are to setup video cameras around and confidence monitors around. even if its only low quality... i have an rca switcher. and my problem is i want to insert a video in on this mac through rca so i can place multipecams.

is it possible to have an firewire port converted to rca? that way i can place the cameras around like 3-4 video cameras.

tnx for ur help brothers in christ

[samunderscore]

btw we use our own budget for the help on this church. we are just students by the way. i have a usb video dvd maker that makes inputs video cameras via rca on mac but wont recognize on pro presenter and mediashout so i decided to find a plug for firewire..

[berad]

The problem is with your USB adaptor you are using. I would NOT recommend using Firewire as all Firewire video encoders have a bad delay and as such you would have a 1/4 second or more lag. The USB input your DVD creator software came with does encoding on the fly that is proprietary to that software. The Daystar XLR8 ProView, on the other hand, shows up as a normal Quicktime component input. It also has very little latency. It is available from Renewed Vision.

[samunderscore]

i had this research.. many suggested firewire use for they are faster than usb's? i dunno. tnx for that info tho.. you think it will run in pro presenter? ive been working on this since i got in the ministry

[sadlerjon]

Berad is spot on regarding the latency issues that come with using Firewire. The issue has to deal with the way that MPEG-2 encoding is done, and that Video over firewire (with only a few exceptions) uses MPEG-2.

Berad points out that the Daystar XLR8 ProView is available from Renewed Vision - the same people that develop ProPresenter. I expect they wouldn't sell/recommend a product that would create more customer service calls than it is worth.