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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:02:09 GMT, Susan <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:
>nospam@wtez.net (Don WA5NGP) wrote:
>
>>After reading the reviews on dvdrhelp.com I've concluded that the
>>extra bucks spent for Canopus are well worth it. The pci card version
>>acedvio seems to be pretty new? Any experience with it here? It
>>would appear that they put more money into hardware to help deal with
>>the shortcoming inherent in capturing old vhs source, perhaps as good
>>as the TBC tools. Comments?
>>
>>tks
>>Don
>
>Hi Don,
>
>The Canopus ACEDVio is an excellent card and seems to live up to
>Canopus' reputation for sturdy but not well-documented hardware. The
>little leaflet that comes with it is the standard Canopus joke! You
>can get the card by itself, with Canopus' Let's Edit, with Vegas and
>with the Adobe Premiere Pro, Encore, Audition package.
>
>If you want to capture old VHS, the outboard 300 capture box might be
>better. I have only used the ACEDVio card with S-VHS and Hi8 tapes
>played back through high quality decks with build in TBC and it works
>beautifully. I do not know how it would handle grubby VHS or 8mm!
>
>The card by itself or with the Vegas or Adobe packages are great
>values, but I cannot recommend the Let's Edit package.
>
>Let's Edit has a lot of problems and is not set-up very well at all
>for most users. The latest fix (version 1.06) resolves a couple of
>major problems with Let's Edit, but the basic bad user interface
>remains. Let's Edit has some good upper level features such as chroma
>key and a single overlay track, but it is sorely lacking in basic
>usability features such as a trim window, audio level meters, a means
>of using sub-bins, a convenient means of finding and applying
>transitions, a lousy titler, etc.
>
>The stupid program has ten title and audio tracks, but, as I said,
>only one overlay track! Basically, the program is just not well
>thought out. Ten title tracks! Once in your life you might want to
>use ten title tracks. And, ten audio tracks, but no way to manipulate
>them except by fiddling around with the rubber-bands.
>
>Let's Edit will import and edit only DV AVI files, and 32, 44 and 48
>KHz WAV audio. So, it isn't much value if you want to mix old analog
>files with DV and MPG, or if your sound effects and music collection
>is 22KHz mono... unless you want to resample all the files.
>
>So, stick with the card and Vegas or Adobe, or use it with some other
>editing package you like.
Exellent explaination. I got the Let's Edit RT+ bundle about 6 months
ago as a replacement for my DC-30+ (which refused to work on a 2.4GHz
PC).
First impression was great, seamless capture (analogue) with LE
software, however, I need more video tracks. LE is pretty basic stuff
for editing and it only captured Type 1 AVI (fixed now in 1.06)
meaning that video captured with LE will have to be rendered in PR. I
quickly switched to PR and never looked back... Capturing is done with
Scenalizer (it cuts analogue video into 'scenes').
Great card, great video quality from analogue source as well as
firewire DV. Let's Edit is not worth it's money though :-((