Joel:
>>I'd like to hear from you if you have had any experience with The Movie Line
from Fast Electronics. Does it capture and output Hi8/SVHS quality? What other
PC based editor are you using and what do you recommend.
The Movie Machine is composite in and composite out only. So Hi8/SVHS quality
is not possible. Why FAST didn't put "S-" jacks on Movie Machine? Maybe they
were trying to protect their higher end Video Machine (which may begin the
answer to your second question). But perhaps we should be clear what question
you are asking.
The Movie Machine is in a catagory of products that is under $1000, of which
there are many. These are what I would call "multimedia" quality cards.
(Check out New Media, Nov 94 for a run down of those products). To get to Y/C
quality, I think you'll need to move to another level. FAST's Video Machine
may work, Matrox has a number of fine products, TouchVision has D/Vision, and
there's EMC's PrimeTime and the new Night Suite (up in the $40,000 range). But
again, what is your need in terms of price/performance?
Jeff Sauer
Desktop Video Group