Apple G3 Personal Computer User Manual


 
Basics FireWire Technology - 44
card is Apple Computer’s first implementation of FireWire
technology. This card is designed to work with digital video
camcorders and decks that use the DV format and have a
FireWire port (sometimes marked IEEE 1394 or DV IN/
OUT).
The FireWire DVC hardware and software, together with a
non-linear editing application, allow the user to capture DV
movie clips to their hard disk. They can view the clips in
MoviePlayer or other QuickTime 3.0 applications, and edit
and render the DV movies.
If the user has a video editing application with an export
function, they can send (print or record) movies back to the
tape in their camcorder or deck. The software also allows the
FireWire device to be controlled from the computer.
The Apple FireWire DVC card installs in any available PCI
slot on the Power Mac G3 Desktop logic board. It operates at