Well,

For a video-installation I am looking into which hardware would be optimal to use to optimize performance and stability. I dont have much experience with realtime video-processing so any suggestions are appreciated.

We will do an installation with realtime video that is analysed with eyesWeb, enriched with processing and projected with a beamer.
So we need to project the stream and "on top" of that the processing additions.
Right now I am looking which cameras, framegrabber cards or hardware in general could help us there.
Of course we want to archive the highest possible resolution and fps

- I imagine using a normal DV camera connected to the firewire port will eat up all the CPU at 30 fps, doesnt it?

- Then the other possbility would be using a standalone firewire camera together with a framegrabber card, which is a quite expensive solution.

- or is a mixture a good solution; a DV camera with a videocard?

Thanks for your help!