On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:43:59 GMT, "Alexander Ibrahim" wrote:

>I know what the page says, but...
>
>I have seen the Raptor do a preview to a monitor/tv from the
>timeline in very good quality, I don't think it is exactly what
>most people expect. Analog video capture needs to be done through
>a single device to maintain timing.
>
>You have to do output from the timeline of an editor like
>premiere or Raptor edit. You have to run audio from your sound
>card (obviously the thing does not have audio i/o) It also can't
>output video in a/v mode.
>
>Rest assured though, if you capture via DV, you can play back
>analog video from the Raptor, and if you are using premiere for
>capture, you also get a wav file which premiere is polite enough
>to play back via your sound card.
>
>So basically it will do it. I don't know if you need extra
>drivers or a work around or something, but I saw it happen, at a
>Canopus booth at GV Expo. Call canopus and ask how they do it.
>
>I bet you get less than DV resolution on the output or something
>though, ask.

The Raptor card will output video using the "S" or RCA
output connectors (with sound output from the computer sound
card) for monitoring purposes (showing only rendered and
unchanged video), as you said - and while it is high enough
quality for monitor overlay and to look good on a TV, it does
not appear (as you guessed) to be as good as video sent by
FireWire to a converter or DV tape, and then output
analogue. BTW, the Raptor can do video-overlay/analogue-out
using software, or with hardware, using a converter box or
camcorder. The quality using hardware overlay and
pass-through (as seen on the computer monitor) is a notch
below what finally winds up on tape, with software overlay
yet another notch below in quality...