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[Pete]

Let me start of by saying that I'm no expert in niether mac nor video
production. But someone here at work decided to put me in charge of
the morning anouncements(I work at a school). I have a Mac G5 and a
couple of MiniDV cameras.
My question is: What type of equipment do I need in order to produce a
live news broadcast?
I have an existing TV Studio with ancient equipment which include an
audio mixer, a couple of old jvc editing decks(vhs), and a modulator
to feed the broadcast through the cctv system here. Is there any
software available for the mac which can use it's firewire ports and
have it function as a switcher with video out. Or maybe some external
hardware device that can connect to the mac and do this? What would
be my best bet on achiving this... any other suggestions??

[Spaminator]

There are quite a few external units which will allow this. I saw one
that is GREAT but ran around $400 if I remember correctly. It had a
slew of conversion, editing, and recording features. I saw it at
CompUSA so that may be a good place to start checking out equipment.

I will tell you, though, that if you don't need HIGH quality broadcast
you might look into something very simple such as an ATI video card.
With my ATI card which cost me around $200 I can input and output video
simultaneously. The card I have has RCA, S-Video and Coaxial inputs
and has RCA and S-Video output. You could simply run a video camera
into the card and run out of the card to your video equipment which
should be able to handle RCA even if it is ancient.

That would provide you with a live broadcast using your system but I'm
wondering why you need to use your computer at all if you're doing a
live feed. Can't you just run a video camera straight into the video
equipment?

In article <75a109e3.0411040929.26b5ccdf@posting.google.com>, Pete
<flfreediver@hotmail.com> wrote:

[TonyP]

Pete wrote:

[Pete]