Pinnacle Systems Studio DVplus

Are you interested in home video editing on your PC? Own a digital video camcorder? Want to output your creations to VHS tapes so all the family can look and laugh? If you own a decent specification PC then this is an affordable PCI video editing card that will turn your video footage into good quality home movies. Pinnacle have been around for quite some time and they produce many high-end professional video editing cards, and over the last few years have also produced some top quality home solutions at very reasonable prices, and the DV Plus is the top of their home video range. Installation The card itself is a PCI card and slots easily into ...  Read the complete review

UPDATE: With windows XP there is a better editing package called windows moviemaker. This is as easy to use as DV. With windows movie maaker you can record your digital films as WMV files. So what, I hear you say. Well WMV files are smaller, hence easier to email, and better quality than MPEG files and media player opens them. I have uninstalled Studio DV from my system. For those of you who are ereluctant to upgrade to XP this opinion still applies. Studio DV+ is the third video editing software I have tried and the only one that I have succesfully mastered. It is for this reason that I can recommend it as the best system for the complete novice. ...  Read the complete review

This is all true, but SONY have seen to it that you cannot really link up their mmv digital format to Pinnacle, since they want us to follow the VAIO way of life. Version 8 of Studio DV+ does support the micromv format, but only for download and editing to pc, not back to the camcorder. Simply connect..HA! Sony's Movie Shaker was clunky and tedious in extremis on both a new NEC 1.7 Ghz Athlon laptop with Nvidia 32MB card and 512mb of RAM and a new Athlon 2.2 Ghz PC with 4600 Ti card and 512Mb of RAM. As a result of all this, my daughter's A level project was wrecked and she was stressed beyond belief. The firewire also isn't true ...  Read the complete review

Not a bad pci card with more features than its little brother the studio dv, if all you need is dv digital video from your camcorder to your pc the studio dv will be fine for the job but if u want more like video out (s-vhs) also it has comp out/stereo audio too and the software does the job very well and it also works fine with win me video studio and Premiere 6.0 but i did have to log onto their website to update my system as the video cam didnt communicate first time (sony DCR-TRV320E)but the patch done the job. the overall process was quite easy and as long as u have internet to obtain the update all will go fine ...  Read the complete review