Using DV deck

Hi guys,
Any pro video guys around?
Are DV decks (sonyDSR45, JVC....) acceptable for iChat?
I want to try multi-source via DVdeck interface.
Please advice...
thanks

Hi Tikboy,
This is a list of Camcorders and DV Converters that Apple says will work with iChat. (Will put up the name of the device in iChat settings). The list is not exclusive and is essentially out of date to new products.
iChat will "see" most DV input.
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/ichatusbcam/ Will allow you to change the Video input including selecting the Desktop. It has a 7 day trial for you to find out if it will work.
There was a recent post about another Add-on product that allows you to add Pics and Video source that I heard about recently. Unfortunately I can not remember if it was in a chat on on these Dicussions that I heard it (nor the name).
Edit: Search of my history brought up this http://www.showmacster.com/
Ralph

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#25 HDV external Monitor Viewing
Shane's Stock Answer #25 - HDV external Monitor Viewing
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Regards, Dale

JVC never answered my email questions. iapps confirmed that my basic assumptions were reasonable, however. So I ordered the items.
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David Jolosky wrote:
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Shane's Stock Answer #25: HDV external Monitor Viewing
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I've been editing for years but this is my first Final Cut job. I was having a problem outputting an 8-minute sequence, geting an Incompatible Compression Settings error message. I am not sure why, because all the sources were either DV, aiff music/vo and jpegs, but a friend I asked suggested this solution. First I created a new sequence, making sure that everything was set to DV output (which it seemed to be in the previous, but anyway...). Then I nested my output sequence in the new one. I had to render stuff again, but it seemed that it would finally let me make a digital output to the deck.
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When I went to assemble, the deck (DSR-11, tape blacked at head) cued and went into record. The output signal was Firewire, the deck's input was DV. Since I was "mastering", it put B&T as well as a black slug in the appropriate spots and for the correct lengths and played the sequence to the end. However I was only seeing this through the FCP output window. When I checked the tape I found the deck had recorded ONLY BLACK, but did assemble correctly since I now had black and timecode on my tape for the full duration.
It was as if black were routed to the deck. This was really weird because I had been using the deck to feed my line monitor throughout the whole edit, so I knew the deck was seeing FCP. I tried this several times, using different tapes (DVCam, MiniDV) but the result was the same.
Finally I just added bars and black to the sequence and played it down manually while I hard recorded on the DSR. The deck saw and recorded the piece without a problem, but because I had to hard record the start timecode for the show isn't 01:00:00:00-how unprofessional!!
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See Link for Player
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By the way, this time i REALLY cleaned up the class and It compliles correctly so it would help if you guys that posted last time would take a look at it again.
(and I know that the name of the class shoudl be card or something but MY teacher wanted it to be deck)
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public Deck () {
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/////////////////////////////////////////// END CLASS
}//end class
/////////////////////////////////////////// END

Wooo, you;ve made this far to complicated. Lets start with a class called Card, let just imagine this exists, we won;t go into any more detail. Now lets look at a class called Deck, which has a collection of cards.
class Deck {
private java.util.Vector cards = new java.util.Vector();
Deck() {
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} //this method adds 52 cards to the vector
public Card getCardAt(i) {
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public Card getRandomCard() {
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public int getSize() {
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}Okay, this method has 52 cards and you can either get one at the specificed index or get a random card. Because the cards are removed when they are returned you will never get the same card twice. There is no point in shuffling them if you just return a random card ;)
Okay, now all you need when using the deck class is to create a new instance for each new game:
void deal(Player[] players) {
Deck d = new Deck();
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Always remember the KISS process:
Keep It Simple, Stupid :)

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