FCP, on the other hand, can use many kinds of source material. One of the most interesting and most pure is non-compressed high resolution video. Unlike consumer FireWire camcorders, all aspects of this camera are controlled by software, including white balance and frames per second. If you've used the video source control panel, you'll notice the image quality is blanked out. Not so with these industrial cameras.
All controls are available.
This particular camera provides resolution of 640 x 480 square pixels. Everything is controlled via the FireWire cable, even zoom and focus. Apple doesn't have drivers for these cameras, but TeraGlobal has developed them with the Apple's cooperation. Normally the pixels that make up our computer images are square, but in DV format they are rectangular. If you take the same 720 x 480 rectangular pixel DV image and make the pixels square, you get a familiar 640 x 480 image size.