Pinnacle Studio DC10 Plus
Type: Analogue; Hardware: MJPEG.
Price: $552. Distributors:
Lako Vision.
Ph: 03 9852 7444; Fax: 03 9852 7400
www.lakovision.com.au
Multimedia Technology.
Ph: 03 9419 6600; Fax:03 9417 5799
www.mmt.com.au
The simplest way to describe the DC10 Plus is that it is a cut-down version of the DC30 Plus. As a result, the PCI card is smaller and includes fewer components and features. Significantly, the native audio facilities of the DC30 are not present, instead the card relies on the PC's sound card to capture and output audio. This simplifies connectivity, from the card's point of view anyway, with a pair of internal composite video connectors for input and output and external connectors run to input and output for both composite and S-video in the usual form factors.
Installation is about as painless as you can get under Windows. A large slab of the manual is taken up by the operation of the supplied video editing software called Studio. Software supplied with the card includes a couple of Pinnacle's capture and video test utilities and the previously mentioned editing software. For a description of the functionality of this easy to use package see the sidebar. The card's video quality was every bit as good as the DC30 with strong colours, good definition and if anything, slightly less in the way of MJPEG compression artefacts.
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