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Adobe Digital Video Curriculum Guide Module 5 5-4

Adobe Digital Video

CURRICULUM GUIDE

Note: ASIO and VST

Adobe Premiere Pro uses another Steinberg technology: VST (Virtual Studio Technology). This nearly

ubiquitous software technology ensures that third-party created VST-compliant audio plug-ins work

smoothly in Adobe Premiere Pro. Plug-ins are mini programs that, in this case, augment Adobe Premiere

Pro’s audio effects suite. I cover the VST plug-ins in Module 15, “Sweetening Your Sound.”

• Video capture card. Full-featured video capture cards serve three primary functions: analog (as well as

DV) video capture, hardware-based MPEG encoding (converting video into the compressed MPEG

format used on DVDs and digital satellites) and real-time video effects and transitions. The three main

contenders on the PC side are Canopus, Matrox, and Pinnacle. I present an overview of those cards in

the next section, “Video Capture Cards—Adding Video Editing Magic.”

These components are not inexpensive. A fully tricked-out DV workstation will cost about $6,000. If your

students are PC hobbyists, they can take the build-it-yourself route, but the price difference between buying the

components separately or purchasing a turnkey system is much less than it was a couple years ago.

They can take a middle road. That is, upgrade their existing PCs. The biggest performance boosts will come from

additional RAM, RAID, and a hyperthreading CPU (Pentium 4 Xeons).

If you choose the turnkey approach, I recommend looking first at Alienware (http://www.alienware.com). There

aren’t many other PC makers that focus on this high-end market. Here are two companies with product lines that

approach the full-featured Alienware DV workstation: Dell’s Dimension XPS series (http://www.dell.com) and

Falcon Northwest’s Mach V high-end gaming PCs (http://www.voodoocomputers.com).

Video Capture Cards—Adding Video Editing Magic

Video cards are a specialized part of a DV workstation. You can spend several thousand dollars for a high-end,

broadcast-quality card. But the more likely scenario is to buy a mid-priced but still very powerful and feature-rich

card for $500 to $1,100. Keep in mind that most of these cards come bundled with full versions of Adobe

Premiere Pro, which has a retail price of $700 (the education discounted price is $249, or you can purchase it

along with the Video Collection 4-product bundle for $499).

There are only two principal competitors: Canopus (

http://www.canopus.us) and Matrox

(

http://www.matrox.com ) each offer two excellent cards (Pinnacle’s Pro-One card works with Adobe Premiere

6.5, but Pinnacle is not supporting Adobe Premiere Pro):

• Canopus DVRaptor RT2, $600 (list price)

• Canopus DVStorm2—$1,088 without Adobe Premiere, DVStorm2 Plus—$1,200 with Adobe Premiere

• Matrox RT.X10 Xtra, $500

• Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme, $1,100

I won't attempt to dissect all the strengths and weaknesses of these cards. They all offer amazing functionality

for the price.

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