Connecting a Computer without a Client Monitor
To connect equipment without a Client monitor to your computer:
1.  Connect the monitor, speakers, keyboard, and mouse to the rear of your computer using the documents that came with your desktop computer. If you have a laptop, connect only needed components.
2.  Connect the 1394 cable from a digital video deck, a digital camera, or a transcoder (connected to an analog video deck) to a PCI or PCMCIA 1394 board in your computer, or to the rear of a supported Macintosh system (as explained in the documentation that comes with your equipment). Connecting a Computer Without a Client Monitor shows an example of a digital video deck connected to a PCI 1394 board.
The computer uses the same 1394 cable to input and to output data to and from a digital video deck, a digital camera, or a transcoder (connected to an analog video deck). The output data can be recorded or used to control a digital video deck or digital camera.
  You can output data through a transcoder to be recorded on an analog video deck. To remotely control the analog video deck, you must use the serial port. See Controlling an Analog Video Deck (Windows).
3.  Turn on power to all peripheral equipment and then to the system.


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