Iomega specifies that the Buz requires Windows95 and a Pentium 100 MHz or faster. While the Buz will run on almost anything PCI 2.1, sometimes the question becomes, “But would you want to?
Video capture and editing is very system intensive — quite possibly the most demanding application you can run on your system. It will tax your hard disk storage, bus bandwidth, video card performance, and CPU to the limit. Each one of these factors can become a bottleneck that makes the difference between a fun video project, and a chore too tedious to consider. Hard disk performance is often the limiting factor in what you can achieve. Buz will gladly stuff up to six megabytes a second of video data down your PCI bus and onto your hard disk. There are very few systems that can handle this, so you will likely find yourself throttling back your capture rate to accomodate your hard disk. A utility like the Miro Expert can help measure your hard disk performance and give you an idea of what to expect. While a 100 MHz Pentium and fast hard disk will be able to capture good video, you could spend a very long time waiting for it to render. VideoWave renders every frame when making the prod
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