Why I buy this one ?
- External FireWire/1394 device
- Converts analog (RCA, S-VHS or Component Video) to DV video format
- Export DV Video to analog video tape recorders (RCA, S-VHS)
- Convert between devices (from DV to Analog or Analog to DV) without using a computer
- Capture from DV camcorder with full device control

What our customer's say!

" Real Bargain", This little unit works very well, captures from analog composite, SVHS and component. Transcodes DV to component as well, a nice feature if you have to master from DV to Betacam. The black level on footage captured through the analog inputs is excellent. Sometimes some DV devices have a problem with some loss of contrast in shadow areas which produces a flat looking image. It seems reliable so far, and is far less expensive than the Canopus product with similair features.

"A Real Nice Tool for AV work", This device has become hard to find, and that's a shame. It is one of the few devices that delivers real results without too much BS. While USB 2.0 is great for drives, scanners, printers, and such, it never has delivered the video performance that firewire does. I've used PCI and USB based tools for importing analog video, and the results are mixed and consistently worse than this firewire solution.

This device really is a hardware only solution, though Adobe Premier Elements 3.0 included as well. The hardware converts analog A/V to firewire or vice versa. If you already have a DV camera, you likely won't need this (though it still has many uses), but if you have analog sources, it's very handy to have. Any S-Video, composite, or even component source is converted to a firewire DV stream, which can then be captured using any DV aware software. The encoding takes place in the hardware and you simply need a PC capable of DV capture (decent hard drive, though even 99% of laptops can accommodate this these days). Note, this tool purely captures the DV stream and does not encode it into Divx, WMV, or any other highly compressed format, and as such the video files will be very big. This makes for easy editing, but you will need a fair amount of disc space.

Being a hardware only solution, you don't need to install any drivers or software, and it works with all of the major video editing tools (Mac or PC).