Help Finding Legacy Capture App.

musicvid10 wrote on 4/14/2009, 5:04 PM

Way back in the Win95b days, there was a standalone capture app that worked with legacy analog capture cards, such as the DC10 / DC30.

It was mainly a security and time-lapse capture program that could record anything from 30fps all the way to 1 frame every two hours (that's right). It had a start / stop timer you could set in advance, and even a motion detector feature that would bring it out of standby and start the capture if a cat walked through the video frame.

I believe it was German, but not a Miro or Pinnacle product. Anyone remember it by name or still have a copy?

Any and all clues appreciated in advance.

Comments

Former user wrote on 4/14/2009, 5:49 PM

I thought that was Scenalyzer. It used to work with the DC10.

Dave T2

TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/14/2009, 6:37 PM

maybe http://www.iulabs.com/iuvcr/? I loved it for analog captures so much I bought it right away. :)

ushere wrote on 4/14/2009, 6:45 PM

i used scenalyzer right up till i moved to hd. i still have a copy on my pc for when i work with client tapes in sd.

brilliant and very affordable piece of software that would be an absolutely a killer app if it worked with hdv.

leslie

btw. it's html tape logging is a dream - the ability to catalogue, with pics, all your takes on a tape, then database it with other tapes....

musicvid10 wrote on 4/14/2009, 9:21 PM

I've had the registered version of Scenealyzer for several years. Although I've used it exclusively for DV, I've never tried it for analog captures.

My challenge: resurrecting an old, cannibalized Win98SE box with a DC10+ to use as a security device. I'll try installing Scenealyzer and see how it works. There are a couple of alternatives I found on download.com since my original post that look promising.

I haven't found the original app I used back in the day, but the webcam capture apps available now look promising if they will work with this old capture device and OS.

After too many attempted vehicle breakins on my alley parking pad, I think it is time to start taking some pictures.

AlanC wrote on 4/15/2009, 5:52 AM

I'm pretty sure that you could/can get an XP driver for the DC10 card.

Former user wrote on 4/15/2009, 5:59 AM

You can get the driver for the DC10 card. The problem is that Pinnacle made it hard to access the card. The only software that I know that does is either Pinnacle Studio, Virtualdub and I thought scenalyzer did at one time.

Dave T2

PeterWright wrote on 4/15/2009, 6:17 AM

The dc30 shipped with Adobe Premiere - I still have my old miro dc30+ board plus Break Out Box on a shelf somewhere.

I don't remember hearing about an external capture app - I always used Premiere.

(Historical note: Later, after firewire arrived, a dc30+ user name of John Cline alerted our forum to a software only NLE called Vegas (Version 3.0 at the time)

TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/15/2009, 7:09 AM

link I provided says it works with the DC10. If the card has a bt878 chip on it you could most likely use the tweaked drivers too.

musicvid10 wrote on 4/15/2009, 7:29 AM

There were some DC10 drivers released for XP, some unofficial, but I never got them to recognize the card. I ended up dual-booting for a while until I pretty much stopped using the card a few years back.

I'll try some of the suggestions offered, and see if I can get it set up for security video. Trying to do it on the cheap may be my biggest mistake. A USB webcam with software looks like it may be less hassle all the way around.

One external capture app I used a lot with the DC10 was called AVI-IO. I see it's still around. That's not the time-lapse capture I was thinking of however.

AlanC wrote on 4/15/2009, 10:29 AM

I occasionally use my DC10 card on my XP machine (capturing with Pinnacle) and with the XP driver it's more stable than it ever was under W95 or W98.

If you're that way inclined, there is a SDK available for analogue capture that you could probably modify to do time lapse capture.

musicvid10 wrote on 4/15/2009, 11:39 AM

allan,

Is the XP driver you have specific to a particular version of Studio?
Or is it available separately?

If I remember correctly, I had Studio 6.9 (?) installed, and Pinnacle sent me Studio 7 SE for $15, which was supposed to work, but I had no success.

If there is a standalone driver for DC10+ with XP could you point me to it, or send it to my username at ******** ?

Many thanks.

Former user wrote on 4/15/2009, 11:59 AM

You will find the driver will only work with Pinnacle Studio software. That was a big complaint back when Pinnacle started the DC10+. The hardware and software to use it was proprietary. I did get it to work with Virtualdub.

The drivers are at the Pinnacle Support, but you may have to be a registered user to download them.

Pinnacle was not going to make an XP driver but there were so many complaints they caved in.

Dave T2

AlanC wrote on 4/15/2009, 12:24 PM

You should be receiving my email anytime now.

musicvid10 wrote on 4/15/2009, 9:58 PM

Got it, thanks Allan.
Will let you know how it works out next week.