Will this set-up work?

[RubberDuck]

Ok guys listen to this...

I'm about to purchase an Adeptec firewire card to capture my video footage from my new Canon PC9E.

The machine I want to use for editing has a G400 Max in it.

Will this gfx card be suitable for editing home movies using say Adobe Premier 6 og MGA Videowave 4???

Cheers in advance

RD

PS, which is better, Premier 6 or Videowave 4 - cost is not an option!

[IM_Riktar]

The G400 Max doesn't have any editing features on it. However from a display quality standpoint I think you would hard pressed to find a "better" card to make life easy on your eyes for hour after bloodshot-eyes hour.

As to the software, I would highly recomend Ulead MSPro 6.5 from a standpoint of it's rich features.

[Dr Mordrid]

I'd doublecheck and make sure that Adaptec board is OHCI IEEE-1394 compliant. Previous Adaptec boards used DV type 2 and were propriatory.

A certain good choice is the ADS Pyro or the SIIG board. Both are dead-flat generic OHCI IEEE-1394 and work great.

The G400 dualhead cards are excellent for DV editing. Just start up the Display properties and then enter the Advanced/DualHead menu and turn on DVDMAX. Set it to scale to full screen & to use fields and you're all set.

Now it'll send anything DirectShow plays out to the video outputs including DV, MPEG-2 or about any other installed codec.

Terry

[RubberDuck]

Cheers guys...

But what is OHCI and how is it different to other firewire cards?

RD

[Dr Mordrid]

OHCI IEEE-1394 is a standardized (and therefore very inexpensive) DV card made to use drivers built into Windows 98SE, ME, 2K and XP.

Cards that are not OHCI compliant use propriatory drivers, which often limits their ability to be used from OHCI compliant editing or capture software without propriatory drivers or plugins.

Examples would be Pinnacles DV500 or FAST's DV Master.

The Matrox RT-2000/2500 are mixed devices having both the ability to be used as an OHCI device from any compliant software or with custom drivers (and a load of enhanced features) from Premiere.

Dr. Mordrid