Hello
I have be offered the chance to purchase a Canopus DV Raptor(not RT)including bay and Premiere 5&6 for £50. Does this sound like an ok price?
I am used to working work with ADS PYRO on MSP, Premiere and Avid Xpress DV.
Can anyone tell me if they have successfully used MSP or Avid with Raptor?
How does Raptor work exactly. I have heard that it preview back via your camera etc more info please.
I am wasting my time thinking that this is a suitable learning tool for people wanting to learn more about videoing editing. I hope to start teaching at a local FE college soon.
many thanks
tilski
Tilski
The Raptor is a great card - it will work with fairly basic hardware and with drivers up to 2.11 it used the DV in on your camera to convert DV to analogue and then sent it back to your PC to overlay - giving a great picture. Then came Premier 6.x and the 2.12 drivers - they gave realtime access to the premier audio mixer but lost the hardware overlay. If you get the card decide which features you want as once the 2.12 drivers are installed they are practically impossibe to get rid of without reformatting and a new operating sys install.
I'm not sure about the Raptor with MSP but there is something on the Canopus site so I think it is workable - it is however great with Premiere.
£50 for all you mention seems almost too good to be true - if it is all working and the Premiere disks are original dfinately go for it - it gets you on the Premiere upgrade path if nothing else
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Good Luck
Cliff
CMac Video Timless Videos for all Occasions in Northern Ireland.
£50 is indeed a very good price if you are getting a working Raptor, and a kosher versions of Premiere.
Blimey, Premiere is supposed to sell for over £400!
However, what I simply can't see is what possible benefit a Raptor would be to you.
The BIG thing about the card (apart from its rock-solid stability) was that it very cleverly used the DV-to-analogue capabilities of a camcorder to generate a very high quality preview on the PC (this is why the card has an analogue input.
There are no real-time capabilities provided by Raptor and the card is NOT OHCI standard.
At £50, it might be a great purchase for someone running 98SE or Win2K and who had no card and no editing software, but I simply can see why you'd want it or what benefit it would give.
I'd suggest sticking with the OHCI-standard Pyro, cos there's nothing that Raptor provides that you need, as far as I can see.
Oh, and MSP did work with Raptor (not sure which version, so check Canopus's site), but I'd be most surprised if any recent version of Avid did - even though the very first Xpress DV did run on a Raptor (cos Avid hadn't figured out at that time how to get the program working with OHCI cards).
Bob C
The codec is fantastic - thats a benifit in itself
Thank you all for your reply.
At £56 pounds it did sound great. The price shot up to £96 an hour before the close of the auction.
I'll be taking Bob's advice and sticking to ADS PYRO cards. So if anyone knows where I can source a working second hand Pyro ....let me know. I needs as many as I can get to start up a "Build your own system" adult education class.
All the best
Tilski