HDV on a non-intel PPC imac?

I have an HDV camcorder I've borrowed from someone to film a wedding. I figured since it recorded to miniDV, I'd be fine, since I have FCP5. Also, I've got Toast 9 with BluRay/HD support and iMovie 08. Since my iMac is not Intel, I'm having problems capturing from the camcorder. I've heard of Voltaire (or some name similar to that), but I've heard mixed reviews, plus it costs $40. Are there any workarounds for my current set-up so I wouldn't have to buy any new software? If not, what software would you recommend?

Look in your FCP Help menu bar item. You will find a guide there entitled "HD and Broadcast Formats".
The procedures for capturing, working and editing with HDV are covered in detail.
Interestingly enough, the illustration showing how to connect and set up a HDV camera shows a G5 iMac.

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Nicholas Law wrote:
OMG. This is more complicated than I expected.
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Sorry. I had misunderstood, and not realised that iPhoto '11 IS iPhoto 9.1.1 My apologies.
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An Event is like a Roll in the old iPhoto. It is a grouping of all the photos imported at the same time. You can name events and split them up, also.
OK. Each Event (in new iPhoto) is thus effectively a grouping of all the photos imported at the same time AND appears to be named identically to each Album on the old iPhoto.
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That sounds like you are talking about Events. If you have Events selected in the Library, then you are looking at Events, not Albums. You can still create Albums and move photos into the Albums. Do you have your old Albums in the Album list?
See above ie each (new) Event seems to correspond to an (old) Album. I do not have my old Albums in the new Album list (or indeed any Albums at all).
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If what you are looking at are Events, and not your original Albums, then the Events have extra photos in them since they are based on time of import and not your Albums.
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Some of the dates on the photos may indeed be wrong. I'll see what I can do about this later.
Library/Faces seems pretty straightforward. With 1,511 unnamed faces, it is going to be quite a job to name them all, but at least it is an optional task.
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Those are the only two photos that had a geo-location tied to the photo (again, in the exif data). Some newer cameras have GPS location data. If your smartphone has location information (likely) it will embed location info in the photos it takes.
Neither my camera nor smartphone provides GPS location data BUT these photographs were taken by someone else using his smartphone which apparently does. Thanks for solving this mystery.
Recent/Last import shows the same views as Library/Photos above.
Yes, that would be the most recent import for this Library.
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I hope that's a good thing.
Yes, that's fine. I haven't deleted any of the imported photos yet.
So I think I just need help with how to get the Albums, whether in Library/Events or Library Photos, or in Recent/Last import into
View menu, Sort command. Note that each selection in the Library has its own sort options.
In Library/Events, I used View/Sort Events 'By Title' and this has alphabetised the Events perfectly. Brilliant. Thanks again.
However, each (new) Event ie group of photos imported at any one time, is still named with, and corresponds to the title of an (old) Album.
I have created a single (new) Album while having a single (new) Event open. This magically transferred all the photographs from that Event to the Album. Problem solved easily.
The latter solution b) would be particularly useful as I find pictures most easily in their correctly named and alphabetised albums and not by date. I have not yet discovered any way to drag the imported old albums into alphabetical order, perhaps because they appear to have been imported as a single, for some intents and purposes but not others, block.
View>Sort Events>Manually.
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A lot has changed since 10.4 and the version of iPhoto you used. You missed all the incremental changes as they occurred, so you are now trying to make sense of a lot of changes.
Right.
I think I like the Event structure better than using Albums; however, you can still use Albums like you did before, you'll just need to recreate them if you want to use that method. I'm sure there are reasons for using Albums, but I haven't played with it enough to know when/why.
I see now that Events are indeed almost alternatives to Albums and I will also just have to get used to using one or the other or both. But in any case, this seems solved now, thanks again to your tips.
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I'll get there.
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in the first point under *Starting your migration:*
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See How do I set up a new Mac from my old Mac or its backups? or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Snow Leopard > Installation and Setup+ forum, for more info and step-by-step instructions.
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I have an external Firewire with 10.3 on it, and have booted from that. I can't re-install the combo update because the installer says that it can't be installed on this machine.
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Any help would be rewarded with heaps of good karma.

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