6100/60AV + ethernet + new g3 = cheap video capture?

Gotta say first I'm loving this message board. Nothing like benefitting from the knowledge of those who've gone before. Okay, I am planning on assembling an edit suite centering around a new G3/350. This will be mainly for work in DV format. I currently own an old p/mac 6100/60AV. Word processing is about all that's keeping it out of the trash heap. I first thought that when I got the new system, I would just give it to my mother as a email tool. Then this thought popped in my head: The 6100/60AV has an s-video port. Could I hook the old mac up to the new G3 via ethernet and import video clips directly through the svideo port to the G3 for use in (perhaps) Premiere, using the 6100 as a video capture board? For the DV stuff I would use the new technology of course, but this way I could include traditional forms of video if I desired. Never really used the port on the 6100. It has a measly 240M hard drive, only like 16m ram. Would that effect what I'm thinking of? Would the speed of the ethernet effect it? Would it work through a simple AppleTalk connection? Has anyone else tried this? Or should I just dump it off on mom?

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