ACEDVio | Grass Valley

ACEDVio

Analog-To-DV Converter Card

The Grass Valley™ ACEDVio card is the only OHCI analog and DV editing card completely compatible with hundreds of video editing applications and all widely used video equipment. Whether it's a Windows or Macintosh operating system-based computer, VHS or DV camera, EDIUS®, Final Cut Pro, Avid Xpress, Adobe Premiere Pro or Sony Vegas nonlinear editing software, our ACEDVio is the one card for all editing environments, providing the broadest compatibility, longest product life, and highest return on investment.  At the heart of the ACEDVio card is the innovative Canopus DV codec chip, which provides the industry's best picture-quality preservation and locked audio support during analog-to-DV conversion and capture. This locked audio ensures perfect audio and video synchronization at all times.

Key Features

Industry"s highest-quality, bi-directional analog/DV conversion with locked-audio support
Video output to a monitor or television while editing
Adjustable brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, and sharpness controls on an analog video input*

* Included software for Windows OS only

Specifications

Digital Video I/O

4-pin FireWire connector

IEEE 1394 I/O

6-pin FireWire connector

Analog Video I/O

S-Video and composite combined (7-pin miniDIN) input
S-Video and composite combined (7-pin miniDIN) output

Analog Audio I/O

Stereo RCA input
Stereo RCA output

OHCI specification

Link layer complies with IEEE 1394 Open Host Controller Interface specification release 1.1
Physical layer complies with IEEE 1394a-2000 (Data rate: 100/200/400 Mb/s)
Modular 32-bit host interface complies with PCI specification release 2.2
WDM driver compliancy and support

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows
- Intel Pentium III 800 MHz or AMD Athlon 800 MHz CPU or faster
- 256 MB RAM; CD-ROM drive
- Windows 2000 (requires Service Pack 3 or higher), Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional (requires Service Pack 1 or higher)
- Graphics card capable of supporting hardware-based DirectDraw overlay and 24-bit color display at a 1024 x 768 resolution
- AV-rated hard disk drive (10 MB/sec minimum sustained transfer)
- One free bus-mastering PCI slot (v2.1 or later)
Mac
- MacOS 9 or later
- 1 free bus-mastering PCI slot (v2.1 or later)
- Software application supporting OHCI capture (i.e., iMovie, Final Cut Pro)