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[Knezzen]

Does anyone here have any experience with the CineWave RT cards for Final Cut Pro? I'm starting the process to save some miniDV tapes before they die and it occoured to me that it would be fun to do some editing in Final Cut Pro in OS9 on the MDD, but the lack of real time effects is killing my workflow.

Back in the day the CineWave cards added some RT (Real Time) effect functionality to Final Cut, but I've never experienced them first hand. Does anyone here have any experience with them?

The cards are avaliable on eBay and the software seems to be avaliable on the garden, but I have no idea if these things require some kind of hardware dongle to work, a serial code that doesn't exist anymore, or if I need one of the breakout boxes to even get the video inside (or is my camcorder connected over miniDV enough if the correct codec is used?).

And if all of that is in place, what do I get in terms of added functionality? Is there a general hardware acceleration, or do I need to use CineWave made plugins to Final Cut?

Many questions! Help me out here

[IIO]

it comes with 20 custom "effects" which are nothing more than transitions (wipe, dissolve...) and it can convert to different formats and sizes in realtime. that is all i know about it.