what are you guys using for PC DV capture?
 

Thinking of getting another DV capture card for another system, my firebird DV is cool enough but im thinking maybe get the firebird XE (http://www.dvico.com/pro_mul_xe.html)..
pretty nice, decent encoding, breakout box, good to use with premiere..
but im no video nut - what cool toys do you guys use - any recommendations?

I use Studio8 and the Firewire from my Creativecard.. works good enough for me :)

Only thing I'm wondering about is how to get a DV-Tape to my HDD faster then 1:1..... Isn't there a box outthere where ya can put your tape in and that loads it to your HDD fullspeed?

I have sold a lot of these to semi pro users


MAtros Rtx100

Pinnacle DV500 DVD

http://www.dazzle.com

Im using Dazzle digital video creator II its good. but doesnt work with HP or Compaq 2.53ghz or faster comps running XP.

edit: the software it comes with is good for newbies.

edit2: but works fine on my Powerspec 2.66ghz with 512k frontside bus. its good.

If you buy a REAL editing station, you can work THROUGH the Firewire interface (keeping the source in its NATIVE format on the DV) Because a real editingstation only use metadata for the effex and timeline. When you are ready to export it, then it sux in the data from the DV (only what it need) and at that time your system is taking forever to encode the movie, so you dont have to thing about loadtime.

The only problem is if the source is on more than ONE tape

This is the usual reply you get from if you ask about capturing faster than realtime
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Transfering video at rates higher than realtime requires expensive equipment, in both decks and computers, lower end editing achieves some of this by fast scanning when doing batch files which speeds up transfer somewhat, MSP7 for instance, or importing multiple video streams like with DVstorm2 which can do 3 streams simo.

Studio8 can capture a low-res kinda thing to use for the editing, and after I editted the movie is will download the high res from the tape.. but thats not what I want...
If I have a 5min movie on DV Tape I just want to have THAT qualtiy on my HDD... copied at fullspeed of the firewire...
So uh the DVCam should not play but more uh play it fast forward or smth...

the rtx looks good - what do you think of the Pinnacle Pro-ONE RTDV instead of the dv500?