MIGLIA TECH Director's Cut 'Take 2'

Rating:
Summary: 6 good reasons it's better than the others
Review: Taking those old VHS tapes and sticking them on your Mac or PC is now so easy that any box will do it right? To some extent, the answer is yes. But for anyone with a real desire to edit their footage, keep the quality, check what's actually happening while it's being digitized, then the Miglia Director's Cut Take 2 is absolutely the answer.

This list is in no particular order, just important 'stuff' I've learned;
1.The image output quality is superior to the other brands I've used - and discarded - in this price range. The reason is the chipset.
2. It's the only device that has an audio output for headphones on it - this means that, when editing that speech in Final Cut or other editing solution, you can hear when to make the clip - not just see it. Particularly useful when you want to edit out something that you can hear but not see! The other brands require a whole set of extra cables and plugging and unplugging - a reall mess!
3. The Directors Cut supports dual outputs - so you can see exactly how it will look through a preview monitor / screen while recording. Why wait to record it and playback to see if it's ok?
4. All the conections are at the rear of the box making cabling tidy - the 'others' have cables at front and rear making a mess of your workspace!
5. All the cables ship with this that you're possibly going to need. The others give the resellers a chance to 'sell' profitable cables to you.
6. It can be powered directly from the Firewire port - no need for a power supply - so on-the-road editing is now a reality

This thing has won very high praise from some European journals and I thoroughly recommend it. Well done Miglia