This is not a bad thing: why mess around with a proven design? In fact, if you check out Canopus’ upgrade options, you’ll discover that you only need to buy new software to covert your DVStormSE to a DVStorm2. The PC board is a newer revision, but the board’s layout and the actual chips on it are identical. The actual DVStorm2 card is not significantly different from the original DVStormSE. And if time is money in your production work, real-time DV editing will definitely pay for itself many times over. If you are ready to move from a basic video editor to a more professional editing environment like Adobe Premiere 6.5, the DVStorm2 Plus is a fine value. This review is really about two products: the DVStorm2 card and the RES-100 turnkey built around it by Canopus. Thanks to faster computers, there are now a few competitors for Canopus, and this has this forced Canopus to improve our favorite real-time DV card. And since Canopus had a lock on this market, real-time DV editing came at a not-unreasonable-but-relatively-expensive price. Now Xpress DV is available as a stand-alone package and runs on desktop workstations as well as notebooks.Until last year, there was only one way for Adobe Premiere DV editors to avoid rendering: get a Canopus card. The product was actually available last year, but only as a bundle with IBM's IntelliStation systems. With more and more users opting for flexible and integratable hardware and software solutions, Avid has come out with a professional software editing package that directly competes with Apple's Final Cut Pro and Adobe's Premiere - Avid Xpress DV 2.0. Avid addressed the Windows market with its Avid Xpress, but like their other products this was a complete video editing system. But they were late to get on the Windows bandwagon and a number of other companies such as Pinnacle Systems, Canopus and Discreet quickly saw an opportunity to move into that market space.
Avid had been the dominant player in video editing solutions for many years with high-end products like Media Composer and Symphony.
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