Hi--

>Thanks for your feedback. Can the TRV-9 act as an on-the-fly
>analog to DV transcoder? IOW, could I connect as follows:
>
>(VX-1000 S-Video out) > (Studio-1 proc amp) > (TRV-9 S-Video
>in. TRV-9 firewire out) > (DV only capture card firewire input)

This should work, though I have not tried it (I go to tape first,
then out by FireWire). The TRV-9 auto switches the "S" and the
three RCA's from out- to in-puts during recording - dunno if the
FireWire is also switched, or if it is always two-way. Recording to
tape gives you a corrected copy with higher capacity than the computer
(generally, unless you have 12+ gig drives, and the software to
continuously switch AVI file names as the 2-gig limit is reached
[Spark 2 may do that, but I have not tried that yet]). I'm
fairly sure this should work, since the (analogue) output of the
camera section can be sent directly to the computer through
the FireWire.

>How about the other way around? IOW, have the TRV-9 do
>on-the-fly transcoding from firewire in to analog out? This would
>be needed to record directly from the computer to a VHS
>customer copy. (or SVHS customer copy via S-Video)

This does work. I use the VX-1000 now to translate the digital
material for checking clips on the TV. Here, again, except for
previews, I prefer to make a DV master for making copies (there is
no loss doing this...). Spark 2 (if a single frame is added to the
beginning of each AVI file [the same frame as the last one on the
end of the previous AVI file], continuous playback of long videos
is practical. This stuff changes monthly...

>If so, this could allow buying a firewire only in/out NLE capture
>card and a TRV-9 for about the same price or less than a DVRex
>or DVMaster card.
Morris Osedo

Yes - I missed the ability to use my Hi-8 footage, and to
real-time-EQ marginal DV footage, until I got the TRV-9 (the Buz
almost served the purpose of providing a cheap-but-good analogue
input, but there was more quality loss than with the analogue
inputs of the TRV-9).