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A Guide to various Video Editing
Cards
This page is about video
editing cards. Please bear with us. We are updating
it.
On this page:
The
three main manufacturers of amateur to semi-professional
video editing cards Which
is the best video editing card for you?
Other
useful equipment and software.
The
main contenders: The
three main manufacturers of video editing cards are
Pinnacle, Matrox and Canopus. From email
correspondence with Pinnacle we understand that Pinnacle
is now "focused" on software solutions. It is
our belief that their long term strategy may be to cease
production and development of video editing cards. It's
a shame as it will then be just a two horse race for
professional video editing cards. All
three of the above are reputed manufacturers and they've
been in the video editing business a long time. All of
them have products costing a few pounds going up to
several hundred pounds (or in Canopus' case several
thousand pounds). All of them have detailed comparisons
on their sites as to why their products are superior to
the other two competitors. But how do you choose which
manufacturer and which card is right for you? About
Canopus In
favour of Matrox (to be posted, please bear with us) In
favour of Pinnacle (to be posted, please bear with us) 
Which
should you choose? You
could take the easy route and call us for advice.
Explain to a sales advisor what you are looking to
achieve and they'll guide you on the choices. If
you wish to do your own research here are some useful
tips: 1.
Spend some time on each manufacturer's site. Go through
their range of products AND browse through their forums.
It's amazing how much you can learn about their approach
to customer services and what their existing customers
think of the products. If you've narrowed down the
choice of products to one or two of the manufacturer's
cards type those product names into the search feature
on their forums to see what problems (if any) other
customers are having with those products. 2.
Try typing the products names in a search engine like
Google. Try combinations of the product name with other
words, eg <DV500 + problem>, <Matrox + "Video Editing Card" + Advice>,
<DVStorm2 + compatibility>, <Video Editing
Cards + Reviews> etc. 3.
Consider the software you are looking to use and check
the software manufacturer's website. For example, if you
are looking to use Adobe Premiere as your video editing
software check Adobe's website support pages. They have
a long list of incompatibilities, and details of which
cards don't support which Premiere features etc. For
example, Adobe have several pages on known problems with the DV500 and Premiere.
Other
useful equipment and software Need
to have a device that automatically converts analogue
footage into digital footage? Need to create video from
stills? Need to distribute video over a LAN? Need to
convert video from one format to another? Need to author
your own DVDs? Import MPEG? Create streaming video/broadcast/multicast/cybercast
data for a
website? You
can do almost anything you want - provided you have the
budget, of course :-). Speak to an expert today. Call us
on 0870 22 00 444. Video
Editing PCs
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