dc20 compatibility with dc30, dc30pro and dv500

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Loring
 posted 01-14-2000 12:58 PM              
Hi, my film dept. at school want to know if we captured a video project to our pinnacle systems dc20, would we be able to edit and watch the footage on a different pc with a dc30, dc30 pro, and/or dv500? Thanks a lot everyone.

charos
 posted 01-14-2000 01:37 PM              
Hi! I am a member of a digital video email list (www.dvcentral.org) and I have posted your question there. I will put the reponse here when I get it.

- Bill Carpenter
Athena Productions

charos
 posted 01-14-2000 04:05 PM              
Here is your answer:

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Yes you will. The DC series always backwards compatible.

I have a Dc10, Dc20, Dc30, Dc30plus, and a Dv100. And the Dc30 plus plays
back all of the video from the prior cards. The Dv100 is only able to make
movies for the Dc30 and Dc30 plus however. Of course, using premiere the
Dv100 footage can be encoded with any of the codecs for Dc series. As long
as the card is in the system.

The key is in Backward compatible.......

This has been my experience....
>>


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- Bill Carpenter
Athena Productions

Loring
 posted 01-15-2000 01:08 PM              
Thanks guys! Also one more thing. We were wondering (to save money) if we could just have maybe one or 2 of those cards on a couple pcs, and use another 2 pcs strictly for editing with no capturing capability. I have my doubts that we'd be able to play the footage back even if we did install the codecs on them, because the video is mostly hardware compressed by the capture card. Therefore you need a card to play it. Anyone have an idea?

If that's the case about backwards compatibility, would the installation disks and drivers work just fine from let's say dc30 for the dc20?

Thanks guys.

NJRFilms
 posted 01-15-2000 05:43 PM              
I think it would work. capture video, save it as .avi and you should be able to edit it

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