DV Raptor vs. DV500: THE TRUTH

[Jerry Jones]

In this day and age of media "hype"
where the term "realtime" is
concerned, I thought this post to
rec.video.desktop newsgroup was
quite interesting. Eric knows his
stuff because he uses both the
Canopus DV Raptor and Pinnacle's DV500.

>I still believe the DVRaptor
>is the better card. Maybe I
>should have said: DV500
>rocks, but DVRaptor beats DV500
>on rendering speed...

>Nearly NOTHING is realtime
>with the DV500: BorisFX needs
>rendering, large Pinnacle
>effects need rendering, a
>title over two video tracks
>needs rendering, several
>"spontanuous" crashes of
>Premiere, etc. etc. Not that
>the rendering itself is a
>problem, the rendering on a
>P500 DV500 system took VERY
>much longer than the rendering
>on my own P333 DVRaptor setup.
>Canopus still rocks BETTER.
>Eric van den Berg
>Roosendaal
>The Netherlands
>dvhome@dvhome.tmfweb.nl

[Elie]

Jerrold,

The real-time capabilities of the RT2000 is NOT HYPE.
Your Canopus card has to render page curls 3D effects slides etc and I don't care how fast it does it either where the RT2000 will playback in real time, NO RENDERING!
The only time Premiere has to render is if you use third party software like Adobe Effects/Boris effects etc. obviously.

Even a $20K editing suite from Matrox or Avid cannot playback third party effects in real-time either, is it hype NO because these cards are capable of playing back all kinds of custom effects created my the hardware manufacturer to playback in real-time.

I bet you anything if we have the same project in both our machine with the same transitions (excluding third party) your machine would be rendering and I would be outputing to tape instantly.

Now how long does it take to render if needed on the DV500 or the RT2000 is yet to be known I gotta see it my self and compare products, in the mean time having experienced real-time cards I have to say it's not hype but very much a reality.

Regards,
Elie

[This message has been edited by Elie (edited 27 January 2000).]