The iBOT from Orange Micro, Inc. is a FireWire web camera for Macintosh that totally knocks the socks off any other. The video is uncompressed, unlike USB models.
Exclusive FireWire Speed and Clarity
With a data transfer rate that's 33 times faster than traditional USB web cams, you'll experience a Video Frame Rate of 30 frames/second that's the same speed as you see at your local movie theater. And that's with a big 640 x 480 image size in living color.
Using BTV View 4.0.1 and BTV Edit 4.1.1 you can view and edit.
General Features:
· 400 Mb/sec. IEEE 1394 compatible (camera consumes only 200 Mb/s bandwidth)
· Fully compatible with Macintosh and PC / Windows
· Non-compressed full-motion digital video at rates of 30 Frames/sec @ 640 x 480
· 1/4" Color CCD Image Sensor
· 62 degree angle of view
· Effective Pixels: 659 x 494
· Frame size up to 640 x 480
· Focusable lens from 1cm to infinity
· Supports YUV 4:1:1, YUV 4:2:2, YUV 4:4:4, and RGB 24-bit formats
· Millions of colors (24 bit)
· Supports Plug-and-Play specification
· Supports up to 2 cameras per bus simultaneously
· iBOT pro Version includes microphone for Mac and/or PC
Cable / Connector:
· 6 foot cable with 6 pin IEEE 1394 FireWire connector
· 3.5mm Mac PlainTalk adapter included (systems not equipped with a 3.5mm microphone jack will require a USB adapter)
· 3.5mm sound card microphone input for PC
System Requirements:
The following Extensions must be in your Apple System/Extensions folder for iBOT to function:
FireWire Enabler
FireWire Support
FW iBOT Camera Extension
QuickTime FireWire DV Enabler
QuickTime FireWire DV Support
Minimum System Requirements: Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows 2000, Apple MacOS 8.6 or later, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
When video editing from a Macintosh using the iBOT, Orange Micro recommends at least a G3 233 MHz processor and 80 MB of RAM. We also recommend turning virtual memory off, running a minimal set of extensions, turning off Apple Talk, have an optimized hard drive and set disk cache to 128 k.
The only problem with this device is that Apple's iMovie doesn't support it. But that is up to Apple to fix.
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