Hi John.
You don't mention what system spec you're operating but if it's a fairly
current PC you could choose to forget a proprietary card in favour of
simple firewire. I ran a Canopus DV Raptor (not the real time version) for
five years in two PCs but when I moved up again in December to an Intel
Core 2 system I thought there was enough power under the hood to let go of
the capture card and use a firewire port. I didn't expect there to be new
Raptor drivers for XP Pro, and didn't bother looking. For a month now I've
captured and edited through firewire, monitored through a VCR to TV with
the same connection to my VX2000 as I always used with the Raptor, for
monitoring purposes. I have a ton of archived AVIs exported in the Raptor
codec but Canopus has always had a codec download available for hardware
that wasn't running the card, and that has made it easy to bring that stuff
into new projects the odd time I need that. I run Premiere 6.5 with Ultra
2, Imaginate, Wildform Presenter (for Flash exports) and DVDit 6 as my
version of the Adobe Video Collection - along with their beta of Soundbooth
in place of the old Cool Edit Pro I had on the last system. I don't miss
the Raptor and I do love the speed of everything on the new Asus board and
2.13 GHz (x2) processor. It's also the first time since I bought my first
PC ten years ago that I paid less for my next system - a ton less.
David Hurdon
At 11:26 PM 1/13/2007 +0100, you wrote:
In the bitterest of ironies, I posted several days ago that I was planning
to hang on to my Pinnacle DV500 that I've been using without problems for
several years with Premiere 6.x and asked a few questions about its
compatibility with the XP platform -- only to discover that it has finally
given up the ghost: it doesn't put out the analog output signal any more. (I
have no idea how or why this happened, but there it is ...)
So looks like I'm now going to have to find another solution - that is,
another capture and video playback card/board that I can use with Premiere
6.5. I figure I should take this chance to "modernize" my card, but don't
particularly want to go overboard with a luxury solution.
I see that Pinnacle has come out with a low-cost product called Studio
MovieBoard, which *seems* to be a candidate for replacing the old DV500
hardware and would let me capture DV and edit it in Premiere 6.5 with analog
output to my TV during editing like I had done before with DV500. From the
description, it also seems to capture from both analog and DV sources, like
the old DV500 did. More specifically, it has the "500-PCI Internal Video
Capture Card."
But, not knowing much about all this, I'm not sure I've interpreted it all
correctly. In particular, I'm worried that this product might be "closed"
and only let me use the Pinnacle-provided editing software, not Premiere.
And it's not clear to me what format the footage would be in. In DV500, the
format is "Pinnacle DV." The MovieBoard product spec says it can capture DV,
but doesn't specify in any more detail this "DV" format.
And I suppose that if/when I disinstall DV500, I'll lose the ability to work
with my old DV500 Premiere projects?
Can somebody enlighten me here? And for that matter, any recommendations of
any nature are most appreciated.
John
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