Apple 8500 Series, 8500/150 Series appendix Connecting video equipment

6Turn on the computer.

Now you hear the computer’s sound through the external speakers. (You may also need to set options in the control panel for sound settings in order to hear

sound through your speakers. Refer to the “Sound” topic of Macintosh Guide, available in the Guide [h] menu for more information.)

Note: To control the volume of your external speakers, use the Sound & Displays control panel to control volume and to set other options for playing sound through the external speakers. If you are playing an audio CD, you may also need to adjust the volume control in the program you’re using to play CDs.

Connecting video equipment

You can connect video equipment to your Power Macintosh 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

mconnect video equipment for input, so that you can view video on your monitor, capture single video images, or save digitized video in files

mconnect video equipment for output, so that you can display or record images or sound from the computer

Your Power 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 on videotape, you connect video equipment to the video output port.

Your Macintosh can work with two major video formats:

mS-video

mcomposite video

S-video is a high-quality video format used by many video cameras and VCRs. Most 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.

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