Pinnacle DV500 DVD MPEG2 encoder?

[shhas]

I have been reading about this product online and I am confused.
Is this a capture card that encodes to mpeg2 in realtime? or the realtime stuff only applies to transition editing and so forth?

[Deisel Weisel]

Quote from Computer Video Mag..

"Encoding is fast, but isn't real-time. Crunching a video for DVD with no effects or edits took just under twice the time it would take to play it. When video filters, titles and transitions were present, the process took about three times real-time."

They were very impressed with quality. It's sounds like it's well on par with TMPGEnc, CCE SP and ProCoder. Interestingly, encoding is restricted to one-pass VBR, but still manages excellent quality.

They also reviewed Canopus ProCoder, which also impressed them quality-wise. They mention the comparitive time taken by both DV500 DVD and ProCoder...

With ProCoder.. "A two pass VBR encode of a six minute video clip at 'Mastering Quality' took a staggering 12 hours to complete but, although results looked great, they were not significantly better than a speedy encode we had done in hardware with Pinnacle's DV500 DVD"