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Summary: Right mix of price and performance
Review: Hello Digital Friends, If you are looking for an affordable solution for your Digital Camcorders, this is the one for you.I'm a MBA graduate from Hyderabad, INDIA and during my college time I used to make movies of all the events in our college. I made my first movie on the farewell function of my seniors. I have Sony DCR-VX1000 Handycam which have the facility for I-Link digital output. The greatness of Digital output is that you can produce broadcast quality video from this. Especially if you have handycams with 3CCD's which means state-of-the-art video quality which only films can produce. Pinnacle DV500 contains good tools for all your needs. Titling, effects, digital narration, transitions and real time editing. This helps to transfer your movie from camera to computer hard disk and edit. you can save the out put in different formats. like avi, mpeg, streaming movie for web, CDROM, DVD and more... these options are rarely found in any package. All the home movie makers and professionals can use this.Any help regarding digital camcorders and DV500 i'm willing. Get to me at gopinathkoneti@yahoo.com
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Summary: Solid medium-priced video capture solution for prosumers
Review: I recently purchased the DV500+ after extensively researching lower and higher priced units. My intent was to handle the following tasks: (1) analog capture of VHS tapes and other sources, (2) transfer/editing of DV tapes from a camcorder, and (3) archiving of video onto CD-R. The DV500+ handles all of the above, although it's ability to archive video at low bit rates (e.g. MPEG-1 or SVCD-compliant MPEG-2) requires use of freeware from the internet....My previous video capture solutions were ATI All-in-wonder cards, both the 128 and Radeon versions. Although the ATI multipurpose display/video capture card is good for the money, you cannot reliably capture very high bit rate video streams without jumping through lots of hoops. The DV500+, on the other hand, has been rock solid in capturing analog video in DV format with no dropped frames over hour+ captures. The included software package is great.. Premiere 6 is the pinnacle of Windows-based non-linear video editing. I am still playing with the other items including the title editor, 3D renderer, DVD menu/clip editor, etc. The DV500+ is not as "real-time" as the Matrox RT2500 which is its main competition, but it's at least ... cheaper and may have more trouble-free installation. If you need MPEG-2 editing and capture, think about the RT2500 since the DV500+ only captures in DV format but allows later transcoding to MPEG-2. ....
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Summary: Solid medium-priced video capture solution for prosumers
Review: I recently purchased the DV500+ after extensively researching lower and higher priced units. My intent was to handle the following tasks: (1) analog capture of VHS tapes and other sources, (2) transfer/editing of DV tapes from a camcorder, and (3) archiving of video onto CD-R. The DV500+ handles all of the above, although it's ability to archive video at low bit rates (e.g. MPEG-1 or SVCD-compliant MPEG-2) requires use of freeware from the internet.... My previous video capture solutions were ATI All-in-wonder cards, both the 128 and Radeon versions. Although the ATI multipurpose display/video capture card is good for the money, you cannot reliably capture very high bit rate video streams without jumping through lots of hoops. The DV500+, on the other hand, has been rock solid in capturing analog video in DV format with no dropped frames over hour+ captures. The included software package is great.. Premiere 6 is the pinnacle of Windows-based non-linear video editing. I am still playing with the other items including the title editor, 3D renderer, DVD menu/clip editor, etc. The DV500+ is not as "real-time" as the Matrox RT2500 which is its main competition, but it's at least ... cheaper and may have more trouble-free installation. If you need MPEG-2 editing and capture, think about the RT2500 since the DV500+ only captures in DV format but allows later transcoding to MPEG-2. ....
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Summary: Very troublesome
Review: The DV500 is a very picky piece of hardware. I have yet to get it working as advertised in my system, a system I hand built around Pinnacle's specifications. The configuration guide sent to my by Pinnacle explains that the DV500 will only work in one specific PCI slot, and then only if it is forced to a certain set of IRQs, (it uses 3 IRQs). It also requires an older, outdated set system drivers, drivers that are not directly related to the DV500. Even with a system build and configured precisely to Pinnacle standards, the DV500 will not output the realtime effects, and will not output video via the FireWire. I'm not new to video editing, and have never needed tech help for anything, until I bought the DV500. A better bet: by a $50 firewire card, and a good video editing program.
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