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Article: DV EDITING Under $1,000!(FireWire-capable video cards more affordable)
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- Camcorder & Computer Video
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- May 1, 1999
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Breakthroughs That Let You Work With Incredible Video Quality
We are five months into 1999 and one thing has become very clear to me: FireWire is overtaking the industry. Over half of the video capture cards I see are IEEE1394/ FireWire-capable. By year-end, I think this number will reach 75 percent.
The reason for this is the obvious incredible video quality, lossless nonlinear editing, inexpensive DV capture cards and most importantly, plummeting computer costs. For under $1,000 you can buy a DV capture card and enough NLE software to handle digital editing. (Add a DV cam, Pentium PII400 computer and enough storage for over an hour of video for around ...