Capture card w/ DV and analog

[Brian Deviteri]

Umm, you’re not going to find too many of them these days. Adobe has discontinued the practice of bundling their software with hardware basically due to people buying them, unbundling them, and selling each piece as seperate units.

ADS Tech used to sell a “PYRO AV Link Professional API-752” bundle (https://www.adstech.com/products/API-752/intro/api752intro.asp?pid=API-752) and a “PYRO AV Link Professional MPEG Edition API-755” bundle (https://www.adstech.com/products/API-755/intro/api-755_intro.asp?pid=API-755), but my understanding is that these products are no longer being produced.

I know you can go to CWOL.com and find the left-over units of the API-755 bundle, but they may be limited in stock (https://www.cwol.com/firewire/pyro-pro-mpeg-edition.htm). I know they have run out of the API-752’s and they will not be getting any more.

Some other ADS Tech resellers may have some left-over units.

[David J]

If you have a camera with DV in enabled, there is a good chance that you can use the camera as an analogue/DV converter to get analogue material into the computer via DV.

Sony call the facility ‘passthrough’. Other manufacturers may call it something different.

For analogue in, connect the analogue input to the camera, the DV from camera to computer, and set passthrough to enable the link. No tape required.

For analogue out, play into the DV-in camera as if you were recording to DV tape and connect analogue outputs to TV/VCR. Again, you probably won’t need a tape in the camera for this to work.

[Miguel Ortiz]

Thanks for the input. I will give this a try.
Miguel

[Paul Cameron]

Hi Miguel

Bluefish444 have released a new installer for the product range support SDI and Analog I/O
You also get RT effects playback from the timeline, The effects supported are the premiere Pro effects library, or what ever software effects you have loaded.
Playback imported file formats that can be imported by premiere pro such as TGA, MOV, AVID DV/HDV, TIFF, JPEG, Etc

We have also added SD analog or SD SDI capture to DV AVI file formats which is 1/10th to that of uncompressed 10 bit YUV, quality is exceptional.

the card you need is the SD|Envy and there is a free upgrade to the new SD|Greed card if you are interested.

https://www.bluefish444.com/

All the best

[Bob Cole]

[Miguel] “I am looking for a DV/analog capture card”

Interesting question. I already have PP, but have not used it because I am waiting for the right i/o/RT acceleration board. Matrox Axio is out of my reach as a turnkey (and I already have an HP xw8200).

What would you recommend for:

1. i/o: SD composite/S-video/component video, bal./unbal. audio, SMPTE timecode input/output and deck control.

2. some hardware acceleration so that I can at least do basic effects (dissolves, wipes) in real time.

3. some kind of upgrade path for SDI/HDV/HD i/o

This is probably where I realize that I’ve been spoiled with my Matrox DigiSuite system for discreet edit.

Am I looking at a combination of Blackmagic and something else?

— BC