> Posted by: "David Hurdon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] contentshoptv
> Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:28 pm (PST)
> Hi John.
Hi David, and thanks for the thought-provoking reply.
> You don't mention what system spec you're operating ...
It's "old": Win2K, 1Ghz CPU, 768Mb RAM, Premiere 6.5 with DV500.
> ...but if it's a fairly
> current PC you could choose to forget a proprietary card in favour of
> simple firewire.
In fact I figured I had two possible routes to travel:
- the first was to try to somehow "patch" the problem with the broken DV500
so that I could limp along for another couple of years before revamping my
system.
- the second was to just use this as an opportunity to revamp now. You're
making me think that this may well be the route to travel. I very much like
the idea of getting off a proprietary card and going right to straight
firewire. But I'm not sure I quite have it all straight yet. See below.
> 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.
The first question might be: "How much under the hood is enough?" My
original thinking had been maybe a 3Ghz Pentium + 2 Gb RAM. Would that be
enough, I wonder? Or would I or should I go straight to the top "Dual Core"
technology?
> 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 didn't quite understand that. I would still want the monitoring to a TV as
before. But after taking out the DV500 (which is broken anyway) and
replacing it only with straight firewire, I don't understand where I would
connect for the output to TV for monitoring. Do I understand that you kept
the Raptor for that purpose (only)?
> 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.
This sounds very promising, David, and sounds very much like a direction I
should consider going. As I mentioned above, I still don't quite understand
the analog video monitoring part if I go with straight firewire.
Thanks again,
John
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