Web Projects Movies may be digitized from a Camcorder or VCR with a number of different digitizing boards including the one supplied with AV Macs. The price is somewhat related to the quality. The Mac is in transition now from NuBus to PCI boards which opens a new set of options and problems. Many PCI boards were manufactured for Wintel computers with rectangular pixels. Some of this hardware is being sold without correction for the Mac which has square pixels.
Distorted images are the result.
For example, a round ball appears as a flattened oval wider than it is tall on a Mac with these boards. The initial quotes may not look that high, but peripherals abound in these systems. This system is a reasonably good setup for digital editing of videotapes or playback with hardware decompression. If you are making videotapes, this set up is probably what you want. The older NuBus boards from Radius and RasterOps with built-in compression are not quite as good as the Media 100, but adequate for most educational purposes accept editing videotapes.