What is Aurora Fuse and Igniter Drivers?

Aurora Fuse 2 installers + Igniter 4 driver installers and documentation.

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The Aurora Fuse is a PCI digital video capture card with component and S-Video I/O and MJPEG-A hardware acceleration. It has a maximum capture rate of 9 MB/s.

The Aurora Igniter is a series of PCI digital video capture cards. Component and SDI/Digital Audio options were available with breakout cables or boxes. Various configurations of I/O are available. It has a maximum capture rate of 13.3 MB/s and MJPEG-A hardware acceleration.

The Aurora Fuse and Igniter should not be confused with the Fuse-X and IgniterX, which are newer cards.

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Aurora should be lauded for bringing easy-to-use, incredibly fast video-capture cards to the Mac market. With a steep price tag, the Igniter video-capture card is aimed toward the pro-sumer video market rather than home-movie hobbyists (iMovie buffs may find the card’s technical features baffling). But for budding videographers, the Igniter is the fastest video-capture card on the market at this price point, and it’s upgradable for professional use.

The Igniter has a number of upgradable options that bring extra features and/or different connectors to the card... The base model features a PCI card with a breakout cable, consisting of S-Video, composite video, and unbalanced RCA connectors so you can connect analog video and audio devices. These connectors are adequate for most video-capture applications, since most camcorders and VCRs have S-Video output and all have composite video output. The audio connectors are built into the card for tight audio and video synchronization.

The specs of the Igniter are astonishing: they state that in a G3 or G4 system, the Igniter can capture and play back video at 13.3 MBps, and it delivers on this claim. We successfully captured full-screen, 720-by-486-pixel video at 29.97 fps without dropping frames. Of course, to attain full bandwidth, you’ll need to set up a RAID configuration (multiple hard drives formatted as a single volume).

Installation is easy — pop the card into a PCI slot and install a couple of components in the System Folder. After that, just configure the card in the Igniter control panel to get it up and running. Fortesting, we used a dual-processor G4/500 with an Ultrai6o SCSI interface hosting a 10,000-rpm Cheetah hard drive. When we launched Final Cut Pro, the preferences were already set up to capture from the Igniter, and the results were wonderful. This setup was truly simple and trouble free.

Though the hefty price tag may require some serious decision-making, the Igniter is a great investment for any budding videographer, allowing users to add high quality analog support to Macs with built-in FireWire. Plus, the upgrade path allows users to expand their capabilities as their skill set grows. Mac OS X support Is also on the way.

Tokuda, Andrew. (July 2001). Igniter. MacAddict. (pg. 60).

Download Aurora Fuse and Igniter Drivers for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 9.0 up to Mac OS 10.0

Compatibility notes

Architecture: PPC

Mac OS 9.x - Mac OS X

This driver goes with Aurora Video Systems capture card.

 

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