Amybody using a Canopus NX card?

plasmavideo wrote on 8/3/2006, 7:36 AM

On the specs for the Canopus NX card it states:

"Bidirectional analog/DV conversion from any Windows NLE when used with IEEE 1394 OHCI."

I currently use a Canopus Storm card with their Edius software, and I also use Vegas equally as much. The problem is using 1394 out to my camera for monitoring, the camera does not add setup. It would be nice to have an analogue output with setup from the Vegas timeline.

Does NX merely become the OHCI port at this point, or would I get NTSC preview out of the NX card to an external monitor with Vegas or other 1394 based NLEs? And, does it convert analogue to DV on the fly - porting it to OHCI mode for capturing in Vegas?

Intriguing if it does indeed do that analogue conversion both ways for Vegas.

TIA

Tom

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DJPadre wrote on 8/3/2006, 7:58 AM

"Does NX merely become the OHCI port at this point,"
Pretty much yes, but another option u might want to consider is the ACEDVio, which is prety much a PCI card which does everything ur camera does...

or would I get NTSC preview out of the NX card to an external monitor with Vegas or other 1394 based NLEs?
((U WOULDNT get an analogue output from the card, as the output itself is routed through the NX. Ive got an SP here in the shop and weve tried... cant get analogue out from it when using vegas.. ))

And, does it convert analogue to DV on the fly - porting it to OHCI mode for capturing in Vegas?

((Well, your camera also does this...so any capture u do should also work in vegas. be aware that sometimes Vegas lags when u have canopus codec'd video files...
To be honest, if ur going for the NX, do it for RT HDV preview and output...i know it would be a bonus to be able to preview vegas with it too.. but ...
be aware that the RTx2 also does hdv, BUT it doesnt support 720p

If u want previews.. Vegas has many options...

plasmavideo wrote on 8/3/2006, 8:24 AM

Thanks for the replies. That's interesting.

"be aware that sometimes Vegas lags when u have canopus codec'd video files"

I typically capture with Storm, even DV, when I'm editing in Vegas - dunno why, just habit, I guess. Are you saying that the DV files captured with the Canopus CODEC will cause Vegas performance to suffer? I'm assuming that may be so, as Vegas must be transcoding to it's CODEC on the fly. How much of a performance hit do you see?

Does the ADVCvio card use the Canopus CODEC in Vegas, or is it transparent in allowing Vegas to use the Sony CODEC for both DV and analogue capture?

TIA.

Tom