I own several Canopus cards, including the DVStorm. A lot of people using Storm cards are turning to OHCI due to unstable DVStorm drivers.
I posted at the Canopus forum, regarding extensive tests that I completed between
- Premiere Pro 1.5 with DVStorm
- Premiere Pro 1.5 OHCI
- Vegas OHCI
I shot a bunch of scenes, digitized to my drive, color corrected, ran transitions -- then I output back to DVCAM tape and to DVD (from high bitrate MPEG 2 files) and carefully viewed the results on a broadcast Sony monitor and a high def Samsung TV set.
The conclusion of my tests -- I saw no noticeable difference between video produced with the Storm and that produced through regular OHCI via Vegas or Premiere Pro.
Now, someone on the Canopus forums says that the DVStorm due to upsampling or the way it handles color space outputs superior video to Vegas or Premiere OHCI without a Storm card.
Is this true?
First, I was under the impression that the only advantage of a Storm card (or Matrox) was the real time capability, I thought OHCI and Storm firewire were identical, except of course for potential differences in the NLE application used and the Canopus codec vs Sony or Mainconcepts.
Is there anone here who knows more about the tech specifications of the Storrm vs OHIC than myself, and can answer this quality debate issue??
Thanks in advance.
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