Help!! Capture with Rainbow Runner

[Fat_Hippo]

Hi I have a Matrox G400 Dual head and a Rainbow Runner. I install all the driver that I found in adis site, and follow the instruction, I can capture video using PC-VCR, but I can't capture from other program like Ulead DVD Movie Factory 3, UleadVideo studio 8 or even Nero Vision, they all said cannot found capture device.
Do I miss something there, I remember I can do that before....
I am using Windows 2000 SP4.
Thanks in advance...

[Brian Ellis]

With all due respect, RR is an obsolete device not designed for W2k. It was great in its heyday but there are MUCH easier ways to capture analogue video today with less hassle, less critical computer configurations and better quality. You can, of course, keep the G400 card with some of them.

Don't you think you deserve an upgrade?

[Fat_Hippo]

Hi Brian Ellis,
Yes I know it is a little bit old but I think it is still good, I heard it give out good quality picture. I am looking for alternative capture ard too, but what I need is one that can do multi-format like Pal, NTSC, RR can do that.
I am thinking of buying the VideoMate TV Gold Plus from Comprousa, did you heard about this?? Any comment??
The reason I ask is I remember I can make it work under W2k with Ulead Video studio before , but I just reformat too many times that I forget what I need to do to make it work.
Thanks for the reply anyway.

[junkmalle]

I'm extrapolatiing from Ulead Media Studio Pro which has some of the same settings as Ulead Video Studio: See if there's a Switch Capture Plugin setting under the Setup menu. Pick the Ulead VFW driver. Then, back on the Setup menu, under VFW Capture Plugin make sure the Matrox VidCap driver is selected.

[Brian Ellis]

For me, the simplest way I found for my old analogue in and still with analogue out, allowing monitoring on a TV screen while editing, is the Canopus ADVC-100, which acts like a break-out box with an IEEE-1394 card in the computer. Quality excellent, in both directions, capture completely hassle-free and works with all O/Ss. As your input is really DV, the video "consumes" only 13 GB/h of hard disk. Highly recommended if you want the simple life, working with any software accepting DV.