Apple Macintosh Performa 6100 Series - Manual (Page 111)

101 Adding AV Capability to Your Macintosh Performa
Connecting video equipment
Once you install a video card into your Macintosh, you can connect video
equipment so that you can display, edit, and store video images on the computer.
You can also view or record the computer’s images on a television or videocassette
recorder (VCR).
In this section you will learn to
m connect video equipment for input, so that you can view the video images on
your monitor, capture single images, or save digitized video in files
m connect video equipment for output, so that you can display or record images or
sound from the computer
Your AV-equipped Macintosh can display and use video images from a variety of
sources. To view video on your monitor, you connect video equipment to the video
input port on the computer. To display or record the computer’s output, you
connect video equipment to the video output port.
Your Macintosh can work with two major video formats:
m S-video
m composite video
S-video is a high-quality video format used by many video cameras and VCRs.
Televisions, most VCRs, and laserdisc players use the composite format. To find
out which format your equipment uses, check the manual that came with your
equipment.
WARNING Before you connect any equipment to your computer, make
sure that your computer is plugged in (in order to ground the computer)
and turned off. If you connect equipment with the computer on, you can
damage your computer and your equipment.