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Using the Playstation2 as an Editing Medium?
zeropanic asks: "I'm not a person who likes to shell out 100's of dollars on new PC (or Mac!) equipment each year just because it's been "replaced" with something better.. Broke down and got a PS2 for Christmas this year, eyeing the iLink port in front. I know the designed task for the PS2 iLink was to hook up two or more Playstation units together, but could it be adapted to something else? Has anyone ever thought to write some software turn the PS2 into a DV suite? With all camcorders going to digital, someone (like me) who has a PS2 and a Sony handycam could connect up and do some minor editing.. Titles, splicing, etc.. while hooking up a USB HDD for temp storage.. (Poke poke to Sony!)" While this would be an interesting use for the PS2 hardware, why not use a laptop instead?
but there are already packages for computers that will do this. If your looking at a USB harddrive and the editing software and the ps2, you could probably get a decent computer for just as much money.
USB can't sustain datarates necessary for NLE (non-linear editing). you'd probably want a firewire hard drive, but that thing only has A iLink port, not multiple ones. (i doubt daisychaining will work in this situation)
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why buy new equipment, when you've already got the camcorder and ps2? to save money, that's why. if the ps2 can't do it (which i pretty much doubt it can, as many other posts explain why), then go ahead and drop the cash on a laptop. but if it CAN, then there's no need to spend the money.
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zeropanic asks: "I'm not a person who likes to shell out 100's of dollars on new PC (or Mac!) equipment each year just because it's been "replaced" with something better.. Broke down and got a laptop for Christmas this year, eyeing the firewire port in front. I know the designed task for the Firewire port was to hook up a DV camera or something, but could it be adapted to something else? Like a DV camera? Oops... um... beowulf cluster? Uh... never mind.
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about those limitations
the "casablanca" machine we have at school for digital editing is nothing but a 486 with 4megs of ram.
special software + special hardware = special circumstances
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USB Hard drives don't seem the best way to go if you want to do video editing. I tried plugging my Firewire drive into the iLink port on my PS2, but got nothing for the trouble.
Anyone else had any success with such a configuration?
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A hard-disk-less machine with a 300-something MHz CPU being used as a DV editing workstation simply because it has a Firewire port? People buy RAID cards for their NLE machines because single drives aren't even fast enough sometimes for digital video editing, and somehow a USB drive will be sufficient?
What the hell?? No offense, but this has got to be the worst Ask Slashdot ever.
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