With regard to 'professional' capturing, your suggestion runs into some practical problems.
To take your last point first, it is not a 'controllable function' that is the point, it is being able to monitor the incoming signals for presence/absence, artifacts, etc. It seems likely that the Canopus designers live locked away in a tower and their bosses never allow them to look at other editing programs (hence the lack of picons) but surely they would know about Storm Video since it was a Canopus product? Or am I missing something? Are those three useful features actually there and just need to be activated in some way?Ĭome on, you Edius people - please reassure me that those Edius designers aren't totally blinkered in their design philosphy? The Edius capture system appears to have none of these three useful features. It had a preview screen for the pictures as they were captured, the abilty to send said preview to an external monitor, and a stereo bargraph for the audio. Storm Video did the capturing and very good it was too. Now, back in the days of yore, the wonderful DV Storm came with three excellent little applications, Storm Video, Storm Audio and Storm Edit. So, reluctantly, to Edius, where at least the scrubbing doesn't feel like pulling a spoon through treacle, which has a timeline timescale indicator as all good editing programs should, and which will capture a complete HDV tape as one file. However, although my first choice for HD (Vegas) has picons, it also has quite unnecessary quirks and drawbacks in its scrubbing and in other timeline features, together with a cock-eyed capture systen for HDV which won't allow one tape to be captured as one file. I say reluctantly because as many of you will know, I find editing without picture icons on the timeline like trying to drive a car with the main windscreen blacked out. Reluctantly, I have bought Edius 6 and an HD Spark.
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