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Canopus DV Raptor
I know that this edit system is around 15 years old, but does anyone still use DV Raptor? Just had a question about re-installing the application. I have original install disc (v1.1). Would I have to re-install Soft Explode effects and drivers also? NOTE: this is NOT my system.., it is for a friend of mine who refuses to upgrade his system IMHO. Thanks.
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Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while…
Most computer systems manufactured within the last 10 years will actually handle DV far faster in software than using a card…and the Raptor wasn’t even a powerful card in terms of 15 years ago…
Getting the modern version of Edius would allow use of any Canopus DV files that you have…or I suspect the software codec is still floating around the interweb someplace.
I find it highly unlikely that there are drivers that would install in any modern OS for that card…you’d probably need to install to a 32 bit XP machine at the latest.
(I got rid of my DV Rex a loooong time ago…and I have a Storm card somewhere in mothballs that I haven’t used in eons but I just can’t bring myself to toss that kind of stuff.)
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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We still get Canopus files every now and then, and the codec is still available, easily searched.
[Tim Kolb] “but I just can’t bring myself to toss that kind of stuff.”
You sound like my wife/boss. We have a huge pro BetaSP deck that she wouldn’t let me unload for years. Now it’s a boat anchor. The shipping would far exceed any $$$ I could make from it.
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I didn’t say I couldn’t bring myself to sell things…I’ve done that.
When the industry has moved on and the stuff isn’t even worth anything to sell, I have a hard time throwing it out.
Canopus DV cards (or any DV cards) have been redundant for a decade…so they really aren’t worth anything to anyone not running a 15 year old computer (and editing mediocre quality standard definition).
I suppose it’s nostalgia. In the back of my mind I keep thinking a museum curator will be calling me up one day, and they’ll ask me for some of my old stuff for a diorama with life-sized cavemen trying to green screen some 4:1:1 footage…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Video Producer at I-CAR -
Well, my “colleague” is reluctant to upgrade or learn newer technologies. The problem with XP and Raptor is the fact that when trying to output an MPEG-2 file, the PC locks up totally. Same happens with other video applications. Maybe he’s missing a certain CODEC, .inf file, or .dll file. – I dunno. he is not in the Internet so he cannot get fixes from way back when.
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How do I locate the installed video CODEC’s in WinXP?
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