Hello there
I am working on a PC with Pentium III, 512 Ram, Cubase VST32 5.1, Widows XP. 3HDs and a Pulsar II Plus. Minimal settings, no prob-lems. As I am interested to make music for TV ads, I must have the ability to capture Video and make it AVI, so I can work it with Cubase ( I have used Video Module in Cubase with AVI and it works just fine ). I bought a Pinnacle DC10-Plus ( PCI card ) which does Analog capturing and comes with Studio 8 software for editing. I couldn't make it work although the Pinnacle requirements were below my system. I suspect some kind of conflict with Pulsar. (The card DID worked on a friend's Pentium IV without CW Product on ). I am asking if somebody has similar experience and how to deal with it. I am thinking of buying Formac Studio DV ( a Firewire converter ) and add a firewire port to my PC or even buy a Mac G4.
Thanks.
Music & Video
I've got an Osprey 210 analog capture card sitting alongside my Pulsar-II and it works fine. I use Vegas to capture through it.
I think the problem here may not be so much having two PCI cards, but using Pinnacle gear. It's just my opinion based on anecdotal evidence in various forums, but I believe Pinnacle gear to be very sub-standard.
I used to have a low-end Pinnacle capture device and software and is was shockingly slow and bug-ridden. Their forums was full of complaints with no fix available.
I ripped it all out, just threw it in the rubbish and got the Osprey card and Vegas instead.
Problems over.
If I was building things again now I'd just forget about an anlog capture card and use Firewire instead and capture the DV feed. If you have an analog cource I'd route that through your videocamera and do it that way.
The biggest problem I've had with video is in the capture phase. Although the Osprey is an excellent card and does not drop frames, there are many issues with what compression codec you use to capture and then how these interact with other compression techniques and codecs, framerates etc you might use when rendering.
Capturing uncompressed is not a great option since the files are so huge.
I think the problem here may not be so much having two PCI cards, but using Pinnacle gear. It's just my opinion based on anecdotal evidence in various forums, but I believe Pinnacle gear to be very sub-standard.
I used to have a low-end Pinnacle capture device and software and is was shockingly slow and bug-ridden. Their forums was full of complaints with no fix available.
I ripped it all out, just threw it in the rubbish and got the Osprey card and Vegas instead.
Problems over.
If I was building things again now I'd just forget about an anlog capture card and use Firewire instead and capture the DV feed. If you have an analog cource I'd route that through your videocamera and do it that way.
The biggest problem I've had with video is in the capture phase. Although the Osprey is an excellent card and does not drop frames, there are many issues with what compression codec you use to capture and then how these interact with other compression techniques and codecs, framerates etc you might use when rendering.
Capturing uncompressed is not a great option since the files are so huge.
