Video in through USB or Firewire ?

Hi everyone,
I'm a newby in VJing, and I'm looking for a simple and cheap solution to do the following.
I would like to get the video coming out from another computer into my iMac (Intel Core Duo) to use it in a VJ software (Arkaos VJ) as I would with a USB or FireWire video camera connected to my computer.
I hope some of you will be able to provide me some help !
Thanks in advance.
Baptiste.

hey there Heliks,
you can load video(as QT files) from the other Mac/PC on to a FW drive, then into your iMac over FW. also check out the Arkaos User Forums for more info: http://forum.arkaos.net/
good luck.

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