On Mon, 03 Sep 2001 20:09:50 GMT, "Harald Striepe" wrote:

>I have looked, but not found any comparisons between CODECS for DV.
>I have available Sony, MainConcepts, Microsoft and Pinnacle DV2 (Part of
>DV500). Are there any comparisons in perfromance (fidelity, speed etc.)?

Ah, then you have not looked very hard...;-)
There is another thread here on just this.

I have used only the Canopus codec and Adeptec (Spark/DPS/
probably-Pinnacle) - with 10-generations forced-rendering
checked at:
http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/original_vs_10th-gen.htm,
and with 5-generation tests at:
http://members.home.net/dgcom/MiniDV/DVcompressors.htm
(an eariler version indicated that QT4 was rather poor,
but the current results appear to substitute the much better
QT5 results in the QT4 positions in the charts on this web
page...). This site indicates that the MainConcept codec
would be a good choice, if possible to use it with your
card (it is about as fast and high-quality as the Canopus,
and about $50 to buy).