AV Connections on Performa 6400/200

One additonal point. The video system doesn't work if there's no display connected to the on board video connector. You can use it with a PCI video card if you connect a "dummy" monitor (i.e. an apple video to VGA adapter) to the on board port.

Same system on my PM7600.You can also watch TV via the VCR.
You can use Avid Video Shop 3.0-but the recorded files use a lot of space!

Your 6400 has the Apple Video System option installed, so if you do an advanced search of the Knowledge Base for it (select "Include content created prior to 1997"), you should be able to find some info about it. As I recall, it shipped with the Avid Cinema program, but the Apple Video Player program functions with it also. There was also an option for a TV tuner or FM tuner, allowing you to watch TV or listen to radio on your 6400. The Apple Video System was more of a high-tech toy at the time, but 10 years later - it's really low-tech. It was certainly never intended for high quality digitizing of analog video for full-screen display. The 603e/180 or 200 MHz processor and limited 1 MB of DRAM for onboard video support aren't capable of handling serious video work. For amusement purposes, you can connect a VCR and watch small-screen video and/or create and save small QuickTime video files.

Incidentally, the maximum supported RAM in a 6400 is 136 MBs - 8 MBs soldered to the motherboard and a pair of 64 MB DIMMs in each of the two RAM slots.

SyB,

The other comments may be correct, OR you may not have the Apple personality card. Instead, it sounds like you might have a separate PCI card manufactured specifically for video editing.

We were given a $16,000 Mac 8100 with AVID editing NUBUS cards (those cards also fit into an 840av) because Avid had so much trouble supporting that dedicated editing system. Dedicated systems are out there and vary greatly in value. The one we have is junk, (AVID would love to disavow the fact that they even marketed that model) and yet other systems are worth some money.

Post back with more details as to which slot the card is in, the location of the video ports and if they are all RCA jacks or if separate monitor and audio jacks are provided. Additional numbers off the card would also help.

Jim

May be some info at this site. http://www.zone6400.com

Cheers, Tom

The odds are that it is what we have described, and not a PCI card A/V system. For reference purposes only, here's the Apple TV/Video System.

Jeff,

Thanx 4 the reference. Much of what I see at government surplus stores is the high end stuff but I recall seeing that card once, now that you mention it.

Jim