Replacing the firewire output ports

What is the easiest way to replace the firewire/ USB/ VGA/ DVI ports on my G4? All the ports no longer respond as they were short-circuited due to frayed ports. Otherwise the computer works OK.
Any info appreciated
Cait

Hi,
At this point the easiest thing to do is purchase a PCI Firewire or Firewire/USB combo card.
For example: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/IOGEAR/GUF320/
Repairing/replacing the motherboard is the next option, more difficult and costly.
Regards,
Dave

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Is the canvas something like "the final output"? Or is that the viewer?

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The canvas always displays the final result and quality of your editing in the current sequence in the timeline; the viewer is just a way to monitor single clips (not the composition of clips as in the canvas) and displays the quality of the clip usually before you edit it into the timeline.
This is important, because if (for example) your sequence (in the timeline) is a standard DV while your captured clips are HD, when you look at a clip in the viewer opened from the browser, you watch it at +HD quality+, when you drag (edit) the same clip into the timeline it is down-converted to the +DV lower quality+; and this is what you see in the canvas. Instead if you open a clip from the timeline (not browser) in the viewer, you see the exact same quality as in the canvas, but only for that single clip. So the best way is to always check quality in the canvas, since it shows the result of all your editing, conversions, and composition, as it will show up in the exported movie.
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