Pinnacle DV500 vs Generic Firewire capture

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Question,

On a 3.2GHZ P4 with 1 gig ram, is there a difference or advantage capturing
DV with the Pinnacle DV500 as opposed to a generic Firewire capture card?

Has the powerful speeds of today's pcs eclipsed the need for a board like
the DV500?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

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> Question,
>
> On a 3.2GHZ P4 with 1 gig ram, is there a difference or advantage
> capturing DV with the Pinnacle DV500 as opposed to a generic Firewire
> capture card?
>
> Has the powerful speeds of today's pcs eclipsed the need for a board
> like the DV500?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>

If you're only doing firewire, just stick to a firewire card, and get
some good software. If you then want a hardware MPEG encoder, go for
one, but only look to a DV500 if you need to capture analogue.

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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:20:38 -0400, "Jeff" <jeff@aol.com> wrote:
>On a 3.2GHZ P4 with 1 gig ram, is there a difference or advantage capturing
>DV with the Pinnacle DV500 as opposed to a generic Firewire capture card?
>Has the powerful speeds of today's pcs eclipsed the need for a board like
>the DV500?

If all you do is Firewire, there is no advantage

If you ever need to capture/convert analog (such as from a VHS VCR
which does not have Firewire output) the Dv500, or another converter
of some type, is still needed


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"Jeff" <jeff@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Question,
>
> On a 3.2GHZ P4 with 1 gig ram, is there a difference or advantage
> capturing
> DV with the Pinnacle DV500 as opposed to a generic Firewire capture card?
>
> Has the powerful speeds of today's pcs eclipsed the need for a board like
> the DV500?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
If you only want to capture DV there is no advantage. However the DV500
also has a hardware encoder and very good analogue input/output and analogue
real-time effects.

 

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> "Jeff" <jeff@aol.com> wrote in message
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>> Question,
>>
>> On a 3.2GHZ P4 with 1 gig ram, is there a difference or advantage
>> capturing
>> DV with the Pinnacle DV500 as opposed to a generic Firewire capture card?
>>
>> Has the powerful speeds of today's pcs eclipsed the need for a board like
>> the DV500?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
> If you only want to capture DV there is no advantage. However the DV500
> also has a hardware encoder and very good analogue input/output and
> analogue real-time effects.
I should add that you can also do frame accurate edits in premiere 6.x
of the mpeg's produced by the DV500 without re in-coding. Only sections
where any effects are added are re-encoded.

 

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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:20:38 -0400, "Jeff" <jeff@aol.com> wrote:

>Question,
>
>On a 3.2GHZ P4 with 1 gig ram, is there a difference or advantage capturing
>DV with the Pinnacle DV500 as opposed to a generic Firewire capture card?
>
>Has the powerful speeds of today's pcs eclipsed the need for a board like
>the DV500?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff
>
YES!

 

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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:38:52 GMT, Donald Link <linkd@mindspring.com>
wrote:

>On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:20:38 -0400, "Jeff" <jeff@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>Question,
>>
>>On a 3.2GHZ P4 with 1 gig ram, is there a difference or advantage capturing
>>DV with the Pinnacle DV500 as opposed to a generic Firewire capture card?
>>
>>Has the powerful speeds of today's pcs eclipsed the need for a board like
>>the DV500?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>YES!


I don't know about that. The DV500 has an excellent output to a tv
monitor that shows you many effects, transitions, color corrections
instantly. It also has 1394, composite and svhs connectors so you can
input/output with greater flexibility. Does not have component or sdi.


I don't know if cpu/software based effects/transitions/etc are
instantaneous output to a crisp clear tv monitor yet.

even new products for hd work have hardware acceleration; axio,
canopus, pinnacle edition 6.

the dv500 is still quite capable with premiere 6x and may be more than
enough to suit your needs.