I have a composite video "pass-through" facility on my DV camcorder (Sony
TRV30E) whereby a composite video input signal is converted to DV out.

This means that I can use my camcorder as an external converter and capture
composite video to a firewire input on my p.c.

Is there any advantage of using RT.X100 composite video capture over using
the analogue "pass-through" facility on my camcorder (Sony TRV30E) whereby a
composite video input signal is converted to DV out? Which would give the
best quality - has anyone experimented?

(Note: I already own a Matrox RT.X100 and use it for DV capture

"Pandora" <no--spam (AT) pandora (DOT) be> wrote


I'll try and answer my own question and see if anyone chips in.

It seems to me that the camcorder method won't suffer from the audio/video
synchronisation problems that the RT.X100 has. (See "Audio Capture Drift
Detection" in X tools).

Unlike the Canopus DVSTorm2 which captures both video AND audio, the Matrox
card relies on the sound card to capture audio. I noticed that there was a
synchronisation problem on a composite video capture I did with the RT.X100