Using the Playstation2 as an Editing Medium? 24
zeropanic asks: "I'm not a person who likes to shell out 100's of dollars on new PC (or Mac!) equipment each year just because it's been "replaced" with something better.. Broke down and got a PS2 for Christmas this year, eyeing the iLink port in front. I know the designed task for the PS2 iLink was to hook up two or more Playstation units together, but could it be adapted to something else? Has anyone ever thought to write some software turn the PS2 into a DV suite? With all camcorders going to digital, someone (like me) who has a PS2 and a Sony handycam could connect up and do some minor editing.. Titles, splicing, etc.. while hooking up a USB HDD for temp storage.. (Poke poke to Sony!)" While this would be an interesting use for the PS2 hardware, why not use a laptop instead?
Well, you might be able to (Score:2, Informative)
Usb harddrive (Score:2, Informative)
Limitations (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Limitations (Score:1, Informative)
the "casablanca" machine we have at school for digital editing is nothing but a 486 with 4megs of ram.
special software + special hardware = special circumstances
Re:Limitations (Score:1)
Yeah, well a guy I know has a 2001 Corvette that only goes up to 8000RPM..
My 1992 50cc Honda dirtbike goes all the way up to 20,000RPM..
I know I'd beat him any day in a street race, because my engine RPM's are so much higher!
why not a laptop? (Score:2, Informative)
why buy new equipment, when you've already got the camcorder and ps2? to save money, that's why. if the ps2 can't do it (which i pretty much doubt it can, as many other posts explain why), then go ahead and drop the cash on a laptop. but if it CAN, then there's no need to spend the money.
Why not a laptop? (Score:2, Informative)
Because that wouldn't make a good ask slashdot!
zeropanic asks: "I'm not a person who likes to shell out 100's of dollars on new PC (or Mac!) equipment each year just because it's been "replaced" with something better.. Broke down and got a laptop for Christmas this year, eyeing the firewire port in front. I know the designed task for the Firewire port was to hook up a DV camera or something, but could it be adapted to something else? Like a DV camera? Oops... um... beowulf cluster? Uh... never mind.
Add it up and shop around... (Score:4, Insightful)
Out of the box it's ready to edit. It runs iMovie which is really easy to use and produces great results. Plus you have an upgrade path to more powerful editors. You could graduate to tools such as Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro. Special effects tools like Adobe After Effects, Pinnacle Commotion and Descrete Combustion will also run on that little Mac. Sound editing is accomplished with Peak, ProTools or even Spark XL. Oh and don't forget the 3d tools you might need. You've got your choice of LightWave, Universe, and Hash just to name a few.
One thing that all the above have going for them is that those tools are all many rev's old. In my experience they seldom crash. So you can get real work done and it doesn't feel like beta testing.
Re:Add it up and shop around... (Score:1)
Install:
OS X [apple.com](BSD variant)
BeOS [be.com] (nearly extinct, but runs on PPC with EXCELLENT video editing, check out BeBits [bebits.com], the source for all things BeOS.)
MandrakePPC [mandrake.com] (I'm sure this is a good option. There are other distros for the PPC too! Look around.)
Re:Add it up and shop around... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Add it up and shop around... (Score:1)
For some reason I had that buried in my head, must be another software based NLE that specifically excludes iMacs...
Re: Moderation (Score:1)
No FireWire Hard Drive Support (Score:2, Informative)
Anyone else had any success with such a configuration?
What were you expecting? (Score:1)
Furthermore, as with all video game consoles, how to boot the system is proprietary information. Its secrecy ensures that anyone making games for the system has to pay for a licenes to do so.
So, to use a Firewire drive, you'll need the PS2 Linux kit DVD to boot the system, and a custom kernel stored on a memory card with IEEE 1394 support. I imagine an inital RAM disk could be used to load the IEEE 1394 modules to access the Firewire drive without needing the Linux kit hardware (besides the boot DVD).
You're either cheap as hell, or insane. (Score:4, Informative)
What the hell?? No offense, but this has got to be the worst Ask Slashdot ever.
- A.P.
Sure! (Score:2)
Very possible, minus the USB drive (Score:1)
Give the PS2 a Linux kit (includes HD and 100Mb ethernet), add a DV codec optimized for the Emotion Engine, and DV editing should work just fine.
I was thinking about using multiple PS2s to encode MPEG-2 video in a distributed fashion. Use a PC server to coordinate and store the data, and use each vector unit in the Emotion Engine to independently process an MPEG GOP (Group of Pictures, the set of frames starting at an independent frame and ending just before the next independent frame). I think one PS2 may be able to keep up with my 1.33GHz Athlon, but the idea here is to use at least 4 PS2s effectively.
buy a cheap pc (Score:1)
http://www.internetishop.com/desktop_system.asp