Is Vegas Over?

[Bruce Brent]

John I’ve got you beat!

I’ve got a relic. A Canopus PCI card. The length is huge. It produced only SD resolution. Thea inputs and outputs were RCA. This device came with a “breakout box.” A nice looking (artifical wood grain) box with a cable to input in the back of the card. It had the same RCA’s (in and out) plus a Firewire input. Running on a Windows 98 back then.

The best part of all this was the software: a 3.5″ floppy disk. It had the needed drivers and the software that ran the product. Of course, it had the working timeline and the basics needed to create a video. Ready for this….this simple software had the ability to (using your mouse cursor) track a moving object (pixelate a face) by realtime movement of the video. All you had to do was set the pixelate to the size you wanted, click play, place your cursor over the moving face and this simple software would follow the face and place (internal keyframing) the pixelation where your mouse was.

I still have the entire system somewhere in my “house of antiques” room.

So, John, do I have you beat? LOL

An old-fart video editor (Bruce)

[Nigel O’neill]

[Bruce Brent] “A Canopus PCI card”

I remember that hardware and software package but it was too expensive for me at the time, so I settled on the original windows movie maker (WMM) before Pinnacle Studio 8 which could render to DVD as WMM could not. I did my first major project in pinnacle studio 8 but after 100 hours of editing, it would not render. I tried Premiere but it constantly crashed. I then learned Vegas 9 and re-did the entire edit and it has never failed me since

My system specs: Intel i7 7700k 4.20 GHz, GTX1060, 16GB RAM, Gigabye Z170 HD3, Vegas Pro 13 (x64), Windows 10 x64 Pro, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, VASST Infiniticam 1.7, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[John Rofrano]

[Bruce Brent] “So, John, do I have you beat? LOL”

Not sure without knowing the model number of the Canopus PCI card. The DC10 card was very old as well. It only captured to MJPEG (it was pre-digital video DV) and only had a resolution of 320 x 480! They actually double the horizontal pixels in the software to make it play back at 640×480 analog. They may be around the same time period but if the Canopus captured 720×480 DV it was probably newer than the DC10. The Pinnacle Studio DC10 software also ran on Microsoft Windows 95 so it may be older. But they are close. I’ll have to go into the basement and try and find the box (I know I still have it somewhere) and see if there is a date on it. Try and get the model number of the Canopus card and we can compare.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Bruce Brent]

Hi again John,

Hmmm, maybe you do have me beat.

Back then, I was contemplating a Pinnacle non linear editing system, but…even though the Canopus Rex M1 had more “whistles & bells” and a price tag to match (somewhere between $2,100 and $2,000) I bit the bullet and purchased the Canopus. I’m really glad I did. No crashes, it worked perfectly. A simple, straight forward UI as well.

Here’s a link to images of the Rex M1 …. https://www.google.com/search?q=canopus+dv+rex+m1&rlz=1C1CHMO_en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWy6zYnq3fAhVL6Z8KHUn_AosQ_AUIDygC&biw=1684&bih=887

I do have the box and all that came with it, but I got lazy and gave you the link instead.

Regards,

Bruce

[John Rofrano]

Bruce, I think you have me beat…

I looked in the box of my Studio DC10 Plus and the Users Manual is copyright 1998 (hard to imagine that was 20 years ago!) and supports Windows 95 and 98. I still have the receipt from outpost.com in the box dated January 14, 2001.

I found this article dated Sept 1998 about Canopus dropping the price of the DVrex to $2499 USD so it must be older.

https://www.videomaker.com/videonews/1998/09/canopus-drops-price-of-dvrex

Wow, that was a lot of money!

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com