Non Profit With Old Pinnacle Card Needs to Make a Movie

[MiracleMovieMaker]

Hi,

We're a non-profit organization that is promoting peaceful and healing music and visuals with many hours of tapes but no way of editing them. We have a pretty old system, but we're always upgrading piece by piece as we can. Our video capture card is pretty old - it's a Pinnacle Studio DC10 - with the Version 1.05 Rev.B CD. We haven't been able to use it since upgrading from Win98SE to XP. How can we go about using the card in XP? We don't need anything fancy at all, just to have it work without glitches. We're running a fast machine with plenty of RAM and HD space.

Can you help us get this working? Bonus: if you can help - we will put your name in the credits of our Miracle Movie - the project we want to get edited.

Thanks and many blessings!

Joy Sherri
The Miracle Movie
adamatova@gmail.com

[Chris K]

When I Google for "DC10 driver for XP", I get a lot of hits with download links.
Don't know if the old "Pinnacle Studio" software works on XP however. Perhaps newer versions can still work with DC10 hardware.

Chris.

[edDV]

Unless you can find an old DC10/30 guru willing to work for free, you are better off buying a new card ($70 Hauppauge PVR-150 minimum) and just get to work. It will encode to MPeg2 directly and save you a lot of encoding work.

[rhegedus]

The DC range is not officially supported under XP but I got my DC30+ working after buying some drivers from:

http://www.mirosupport.de/

Just click on the video tab on the left of the screen.

I think the total cost was about £10 plus p&p.

[hudsonf]

I use this to capture from my camcorder to my computer and TMPGEnc DVD Author to author and burn. http://www.adstech.com/products/USBAV-709-EF/intro/USBAV-709_intro.asp?pid=USBAV-709-EF

[disturbed1]

The DC10 is supported in XP while only using an updated version of Pinnacle studio of at least 7.15.1. You can get the downloads/updates from pinnaclesys.com IF you already own Studio 7. Although, pinnacle recommends using Studio version 8 and or 9.
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/support/display.asp?ProductID=428&DocTypesID=14
If you do not already own Pinnacle Studio, it would be a much better idea to purchase another card, as the price would be the same.

The drivers from http://www.mirosupport.de/ are basically the newer DC10 wdm drivers for XP. They work ok, I guess, with a DC30. It makes the card act like a DC10 (640x480 max resolution), and doesn't use the audio inputs unless you can align the moon with the stars during Halebop's pass The DC30 is the DC10's big brother. I get much better results using a $15 BT878 generic card capturing to huffyuv or uncompressed yuy2. Really a shame, considering in Windows98/ME the DC30 is an awesome card with locked audio and 704x480 capture. In Linux it's capped to acting like a DC10. Defeats the original $300 price difference between the 2. Wait, this about your DC10

I would have to agree 100% with edDV, you best option would be to spring the $100 for one of the Hauppauge PVR cards.

If you list your input source(s) and desired target(s), a better solution might be recommended.

[rhegedus]

The drivers from http://www.mirosupport.de/ are basically the newer DC10 wdm drivers for XP. They work ok, I guess, with a DC30. It makes the card act like a DC10 (640x480 max resolution), and doesn't use the audio inputs unless you can align the moon with the stars during Halebop's pass

Nope - I got full DVD res and synced audio while capturing. First time.

[rhegedus]

@MiracleMovieMaker - what format are the tapes in?

[disturbed1]

The drivers from http://www.mirosupport.de/ are basically the newer DC10 wdm drivers for XP. They work ok, I guess, with a DC30. It makes the card act like a DC10 (640x480 max resolution), and doesn't use the audio inputs unless you can align the moon with the stars during Halebop's pass

Nope - I got full DVD res and synced audio while capturing. First time.

Are you using Premiere version 5 or 6? And are you in PAL land?

The WDM drivers have no audio support, and are limited to 640x480. (480 = NTSC, even the DC10 allows full DVD res PAL captures)

If the 1.5 drivers allow 704x480 capture with Premiere, I may just pull out my old CD and give it a go.

Can you post a screenshot of the Pinnalce/Mirro Video control that allows you to select 704x480 on a XP system?

[rhegedus]

I don't have the card in my system any more since I only used it for two captures of NTSC VHS tapes using PAL60. I'm pretty sure it was full DVD spec.

I remember using IuVCR for the capture.

I think you're right about the audio - I probably used some line-in cables and my soundblaster for that.

[disturbed1]

I was hoping I just had old drivers or a wrong setting or something/

Makes me want to break out the DC30 and fiddle around ---- maybe not

[kimco52]

I have an older computer that was running Win 98 and keep it around for those apps that must use Win 98. I kept my DC30+ card in it just for those times I need to play one of the clips I captured with it years ago. I occasionally need one of those clips and I just play it back on that computer from Premiere6 and dub into my XP system. It has the latest drivers that I could get at the time. The problem was that those clips were captured with the codecs used on that card so I am stuck with that. There were some other drivers and codecs that became available through some other source in Germany but I did not have much luck with them.

I had the DV500 in my XP system until about 4 months ago. I had not used it for over a year and now import through firewire so I took it out. Still have it, though.

[rhegedus]

I was hoping I just had old drivers or a wrong setting or something/

Makes me want to break out the DC30 and fiddle around ---- maybe not

The problem is that with newer motherboards having fewer PCI slots than a few years back (5 in my old system) I can't really justify puting it in my new sytem.

I need my USB and firewire more.