It looks like the DV500 will be licensing the C-Cube's DV portions only, whereas the RT2000 will be licensing the DV and MPEG-2 portions. How can that make video capture/edit on the DV500 more flexible?
Having a system that can not only capture/edit video, but is open to a change of video cards, I agree, will make your computer more flexible, but using the DV500 to that end does limit the capture/edit capabilities one will end up with.
I think that anyone who has been doing desktop video for any length of time will agree that the computer one uses for NLE will generally have to end up being set up to center around NLE. To the extent that people don't dedicate their computer to NLE, their systems will show up with problems running NLE.
As far as the "consumer" level NLE products that have come onto the market over the last two to three years, it's true that there are "horror stories" that abound for people on tight budgets. To those of us who have gone this route, but have also stuck to this hobby with a passion, the lesson learned is that a dedicated system yields better results and fewer headaches in the long run. Consequently, the prospect of a dedicated NLE/Video card combination at the "prosumer" level with the RT2000 is something that makes more sense to anyone who has invested any serious amount of time on NLE over the past couple of years.
I think that all it really boils down to is that one's individual choices for how they set up an NLE system will be predicated upon how serious they want to be with it. If it's just a thing that you want to "dabble" in from time to time, then you'll probably end up unhappy with NLE altogether. In that wise, I agree with each and every pissed off victim of the hype that led them to believe that any level of NLE was going cheap and simple. It's never been anything but "plug and pray".
One way or another, getting NLE to work well on any system will always mean throwing more time and/or money at it. It also means moving towards dedicating one's computer to that end, too. Once someone has learned that lesson, the prospect of choosing new hardware/software for NLE based on something being "cheaper" will make you wary.
In the case of the DV500 being "cheaper", it's simply because you get less for your money than the RT2000.
Having a system that can not only capture/edit video, but is open to a change of video cards, I agree, will make your computer more flexible, but using the DV500 to that end does limit the capture/edit capabilities one will end up with.
I think that anyone who has been doing desktop video for any length of time will agree that the computer one uses for NLE will generally have to end up being set up to center around NLE. To the extent that people don't dedicate their computer to NLE, their systems will show up with problems running NLE.
As far as the "consumer" level NLE products that have come onto the market over the last two to three years, it's true that there are "horror stories" that abound for people on tight budgets. To those of us who have gone this route, but have also stuck to this hobby with a passion, the lesson learned is that a dedicated system yields better results and fewer headaches in the long run. Consequently, the prospect of a dedicated NLE/Video card combination at the "prosumer" level with the RT2000 is something that makes more sense to anyone who has invested any serious amount of time on NLE over the past couple of years.
I think that all it really boils down to is that one's individual choices for how they set up an NLE system will be predicated upon how serious they want to be with it. If it's just a thing that you want to "dabble" in from time to time, then you'll probably end up unhappy with NLE altogether. In that wise, I agree with each and every pissed off victim of the hype that led them to believe that any level of NLE was going cheap and simple. It's never been anything but "plug and pray".
One way or another, getting NLE to work well on any system will always mean throwing more time and/or money at it. It also means moving towards dedicating one's computer to that end, too. Once someone has learned that lesson, the prospect of choosing new hardware/software for NLE based on something being "cheaper" will make you wary.
In the case of the DV500 being "cheaper", it's simply because you get less for your money than the RT2000.
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