Hi John.
Let me get the analog monitoring question out of the way first. It's
Firewire from the PC to the DV camcorder, VX2000 in my case although I also
have a Sony D-8 I could use for the same purpose. From the camcorder it's
S-video and RCAs (white and red) to the VCR, and coaxial cable from VCR to
TV. DV comes out Firewire and is converted in the camera to analog, which
goes out as described to VCR/TV. There's a setting in Premiere 6.5 Project
Settings for playback on camcorder. I had the Raptor connected to the
camera until I bought the new system. So nothing has really changed from a
wiring standpoint. The Raptor wasn't a real time card. It brought nothing
to the party except the connection at a time when Firewire wasn't available
on PC.
I'm sure a 3 GHz Pentium would be enough. I occasionally capture to my
laptop, which is exactly that, with 512 MB of RAM. And even with a 5400 rpm
hard drive I get no dropped frames. I wouldn't recommend this as a work
flow but my curiosity required me to try it when I bought the Toshiba,
which had Firewire and XP Media Centre. I had forgotten until this minute
that this was my first personal experimentation with capture without the
Raptor. Shortly after buying the laptop I added a USB2 external hard drive
for office use and I've captured successfully to that as well.
I hope I've been clear enough to help.
David Hurdon
At 02:27 PM 1/15/2007 +0100, you wrote:
> 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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