Adaptec Dvpics Plus Retail Kit

Rating:
Summary: Extra software is not worth it
Review: This is basically the 4300 firewire card plus some extra software.

The card works well, but the software is not up to standard.

Sonic MyDVD crashes when I try to capture more that 10 minutes of movie from my DV camera. ( It runs out of memory, since it can't convert the data fast enough into mpeg2 for the dvd.) Also if you want to put an AVI file on the DVD, it will only allow a maximum of 60 minutes of video.

Also included was ArcSoft ShowBiz for video editing. However when converting from an AVI to MPEG2 using this (to get around the 60 minute video limitation, see above) to video freezes half way through.

After trying a few products I purchased Nero 6 to record the movies onto DVD.