You can imagine how strange it might feel to replace a Canopus DV Raptor, which cost us about $400 two years ago, with an OHCI-compliant ATI DV Wonder, which costs all of $49.
But we did just that this morning.
We inserted the ATI DV Wonder board into the PCI slot of our new Dell 1.7Ghz Pentium 4 machine with 512mb of ram.
Windows 2000 immediately recognized the board as an OHCI-compliant device... absolutely no hassles like the ones we've had trying to get DV Raptor's Canopus Smart Play plug-in to recognize the new 6.5 version of Ulead MediaStudio Pro.
The Microsoft DV driver loaded automatically.
I've never seen an easier installation.
We next did what we *never* could do with the Canopus DV Raptor... we opened MediaStudio Pro's *Video Capture* module and used it successfully instead of being forced to use Canopus Raptor Video software for capture purposes.
Capture and device control work flawlessly. It's so nice to be able to use MediaStudio's integrated capture module, which allows one to capture directly to the Video Editor Production Library for easier media management.
So far - I'm astonished by how easy and inexpensive this OHCI compliant board has been.
No wonder Avid has announced there will be no future support for Canopus DV Raptor. With Avid, Ulead, Adobe, Sonic Foundry, MGI all adopting OHCI as their core technology - the future is clear.
Here at my office, we're in the middle of transferring files from my old computer to the new computer.
But when that is finished, I'll be putting the MediaStudio Video Editor to work with DV Wonder-captured files and I'll report on how well timeline playback works.
I have mixed feelings about this experience. The old DV Raptor was a workhorse.
But if further testing proves the ATI board to be a winner, we'll be selling the Canopus board... while we still can.
At home, I'll also be testing the ATI DV wonder with my new motherboard, an Elite Group k7S5a (SiS 735 chipset) and an AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz, 266Mhz chip (Thunderbird core). I'll report on how well that works, too.
JJ
But we did just that this morning.
We inserted the ATI DV Wonder board into the PCI slot of our new Dell 1.7Ghz Pentium 4 machine with 512mb of ram.
Windows 2000 immediately recognized the board as an OHCI-compliant device... absolutely no hassles like the ones we've had trying to get DV Raptor's Canopus Smart Play plug-in to recognize the new 6.5 version of Ulead MediaStudio Pro.
The Microsoft DV driver loaded automatically.
I've never seen an easier installation.
We next did what we *never* could do with the Canopus DV Raptor... we opened MediaStudio Pro's *Video Capture* module and used it successfully instead of being forced to use Canopus Raptor Video software for capture purposes.
Capture and device control work flawlessly. It's so nice to be able to use MediaStudio's integrated capture module, which allows one to capture directly to the Video Editor Production Library for easier media management.
So far - I'm astonished by how easy and inexpensive this OHCI compliant board has been.
No wonder Avid has announced there will be no future support for Canopus DV Raptor. With Avid, Ulead, Adobe, Sonic Foundry, MGI all adopting OHCI as their core technology - the future is clear.
Here at my office, we're in the middle of transferring files from my old computer to the new computer.
But when that is finished, I'll be putting the MediaStudio Video Editor to work with DV Wonder-captured files and I'll report on how well timeline playback works.
I have mixed feelings about this experience. The old DV Raptor was a workhorse.
But if further testing proves the ATI board to be a winner, we'll be selling the Canopus board... while we still can.
At home, I'll also be testing the ATI DV wonder with my new motherboard, an Elite Group k7S5a (SiS 735 chipset) and an AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz, 266Mhz chip (Thunderbird core). I'll report on how well that works, too.
JJ
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