Response to Non Linear Video Capture Cards...

Hope I'm not too late with this reply......I had a dc30, it took about 3 months to get it working properly, and that was on a computer I built up to specific recommendations by a miro reseller, and it was still very fiddly and unstable to say the least......I traded it for a dvraptor, took the card home, and in half an hour it was running perfectly, it never looks like dropping any frames, even in full batch capture mode on EIDE hard drives(!!) and obviously the no-loss quality is great. I use a TRV900 to get around the analogue situation - simply recording any svideo or composite source onto mini dv cassette through the very handy and much overlooked ANALOGUE INPUTS. The DV rex I would presume works just as well as the raptor, canopus seems to have it sussed, the main difference being the hardware based rendering process - much faster and less dependant on the CPU - the DC30 and DV300, and the Raptor are software based cards, hence the price difference. Raptor rules...... Hope this helps.

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