ati is releasing a new card, truly all in one

[Greg12]

ati will release a new capture/display card.

it will feature firewire/digital/ananlog inputs and digitial and annalog outputs.

has anyone else done this. firewire and analog.

it will also support componet video output, dolby digital decoding and other features.

this card is only avalible for agp bus, their is no pci version.

[FiEND]

it would be a cold day in hell before i buy anything from ATI again. sure the hardware sounds gravy but unless they fire all their software engineers and managers they can kiss my lilly ...

[daveross]

I have to agree with the last poster. With the extreme lack of driver updates from ATI, often times poor customer support, and lets not forget about the faulty macrovision activating on users HOMEMADE videos...no thanks...I won't make the same mistake twice. As far as I'm concerned ATI is running themselves straight into the ground as a company. They'd better hope their new Nintendo Gamecube deal does them good, because a lot of people share my view on them.

[ghengis2k1]

i agree.. there drivers do suck! i have the ati AIW radeon 32 dr. I gave up in trying to get this card to preform right. this card is going into my other computer "slower".

[spidey]

The Dazzle Hollywood Bridge and I believe the DVC 2 all have both analog and firewire inputs. I only have the DVC 1 USB which is only analog and SVideo. Check them out at dazzle.com

[akbar56]

Dont bag on ATI so much. Sure they used to suck MAJOR donkey. But they have gotten better.
check out http://www.rage3d.com
engineers release all kinds of beta drivers there all the time.
And their support department is good (as far as I have had) all questions got returned within 2-3 days and they even shipped me new hardware no questions asked.

[ICE Logix]

I have a Radeon 64DDR Vi/VO and it works like a champ.. never had a problem with it and i use the recommended drivers off http://www.ati.com and dont have any problems...

I had to install latest VIA 4-1 drivers then the video card drivers, but other then that. works fine...

(running Athlon with it...) also running card in 4x AGP...

I use to not like ATI, until the Radeon 64DDR card.. now ati is top of my video card list... even over nvidia...
(but thats just my preference, but the card runs everything i have thrown at it.. no problems...)

[camaroonie]

I've had nothing but trouble with ATI drivers. I took my AIW back and am sticking with my DVC II (even though their software sucks).

[Greg12]

name anouther analog and firewire capture card.

[VIDEOHOUND]

This was derived from the RagePro page mentioned in this string.

Much frustration can be avoided when capturing video by preparing/planning ahead for the massive data-stream involved.

1. Have A Dedicated Hard Drive
If you don't run a SCSI or IDE RAID to capture video to, you can still get reasonable results with a large (15-75gig) 7200rpm IDE Hard Drive. The target HDD should "Master" its own IDE channel,
(Don't stick it to slave on the same channel as your CDROM
and DMA must be enabled to maximize data throughput with a minimum of intervention from your CPU.
Think of the data-stream as a very fast conversation that can't be "interrupted" by other devices, or the result is dropped frames.
Attempting to capture to the HD/IDE Chan your OS is on is asking for grief.

2. DE-FRAG

Attempting to capture to a fragmented hard drive results in dropped frames.
Using a dedicated disk exclusively for video caps saves alot of time/headache; once you are finished with the source video clips simply/quickly reformat the drive and you're ready for the next project.

3. CLEAN BOOT
Interrupts from other apps running during capture will result in dropped frames. This can be avoided by disabling all system TSR's such as Virus-scan, Networking, Hardware Monitoring software etc. The vid-cap software should have 100% of system resources.

4. COMPRESS NOW, OR LATER
Raw AVI in full screen resolution will consume over 1gig of hard drive real estate A Minute. Most any P3/Athlon system is capable of directing the data-flow, but not every IDE hard drive <very few> can handle sustained data transfer over 24mps. On-the-fly AV compression is CPU intensive <the most demanding computer app there is>. If you are "CPU-Challenged", but have plenty/tons of disk space, you can get excellent results by using a software CODEC to compress your clips later <while you sleep>

If on the other hand, you blew your wad on CPU and forgot about the hard drive space you'd need, compress the ****e out of it on the fly and keep the CDRW's handy