Pinnacle DC10 Plus Capture Card

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Pinnacle DC10 Plus Analog VideoIn
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PCI $50 6.8/10
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Bought this as a package with Pinnacle Studio 8, and was able to start converting my VHS home movies to DVD. Later, I upgraded to Studio 9 Plus, which worked great until an update to DirectX broke it!

I just upgraded to Studio 14 Ultimate and also discovered that when Studio 14 installed, it did not uninstall Studio 9, and fixed the DirectX problem for that package!



Comments posted by CBrianA from United States, February 06, 2010:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





This unit gives good picture quality for a capture card. However, if it hits a blank space or gap in the tape, it may lose the audio, or it may become out of sync. It's incredibly frustrating. My tapes are a life's worth of TV recordings, and they have tonnes of gaps- ad breaks, sections taped over sections...for me, gap issues with a card is a major issue. You may beg to differ.

The settings it gives you aren't great either. It's option for VHS are for a half vertical size capture. If one is attempting to convert a source, reducing the area from which data can be captured doesn't help. That should be done at output stage.

If you just want to capture VHS and refuse to shell out for better equipment (ie a DV input capture) then this will do a decent job.



Comments posted by kbbbb from Australia, December 02, 2009:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10.





Where can i get the drivers from had my HDD go down and need to replace the drivers any ideas please... gremlin@orcon.net.nz



Comments posted by gremlin6996 from New Zealand, August 18, 2009:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.





I just want to try DC10+. Unfortunately it has a stong and permanent striped background noise. Is there any known or repairable hw problem with this card? (power/capacitors etc.)



Comments posted by Zoltan from Hungary, January 02, 2007:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.





All I can say is absolutely brilliant in capturing movies from FOXTEL. (Pay tv) I record the old movies to AVI using iuVCR ( uncompressed) and then use pinnacle studio 9.4 to make it into a DVD. Quality after some fine tuning is like beter than I have seen on anything else. some people cant tell if it is a purchased DVD. Simply AWSOME.



Comments posted by Mark Jones from Australia, November 11, 2006:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





I had many problems at the beggining. But after reading the FAQS's and many trials, I finally could make the captures and make my VCDs. It was OK when playing on the computer´s monitor. The problem is that the final colours shown in the TV screen are washed out. As somebody else said, the picture looks like a movie shot in the 60's. As a result, it was impossible up to know to get the same quality of the VHS original tape. I am not satisfied. But I do not loose my hopes yet.



Comments posted by Mali from Argentina, October 21, 2006:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 6 of 10.





I used this card since the beginning of my video-trials.
The only thing you have to do is to install the hardware patch from pinnacle and SP2 from Windows XP Pro.
After that the card funtions perfect!!!.

keep on trying.



Comments posted by janneman from Netherlands, May 16, 2006:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





Has never failed me. Using Studio version 8 and Pinnacle DC10 Plus. I decided to up grade to Pinnacle Studio 9 with Studio DV/AV pci board. It never got off the ground. Went back to Studio 8 and Pinnacle DC10 Plus.....



Comments posted by Ghostman357 from United States, December 21, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





Began using this card with WIN98 then transferred to XP Pro on a PC with twin PIII's each running at 998Mhz.
Everything was fine until I 'upgraded' to Pinnacle version 8 (why is the upgrade a lower number than the earlier version?! I should have realised there was something dodgy about the whole concept.) then my problems began. I have hardly managed to burn anything since and even then by accident. Repeatedly crashing the program as it begins to render. And why are the buttons so fiendishly hidden and non user friendly.
Some of the results I have manged to obtain when I re-did earlier successful videos are appalling with distorted colours and loss of clarity, like looking through a window with rain streaming down it whilst the originals prior to version 8 were excellent.
remailing Pinnacle was a waste of time.
I won't be touching v.9 or anything Pinnacle again.



Comments posted by K Tanner from United Kingdom, May 23, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 3 of 10.





I have been using a DC10 on an older system for a couple years now.

Athlon Thunderbird 900mhz
512mb RAM
2 hard drives, one dedicated to video capture
running Win98se

Anyway, when I first installed the DC10plus, it came with a very early version of Studio. It did work, though it was a little buggy.

Then I upgraded to Studio 8, and have kept current on installing the updates from Pinnacle. I also, for some reason, can't remember, put WinME on the machine as well.

Other than not being able to capture at full 640x480 (the best it captures at is like 608 x 436), I've had no problems with either Studio 8 or the DC10plus.

It never crashes...never freezes up. It seems very reliable and reasonably stable for capturing video and accomplishing some simple editing.

No complaints.



Comments posted by kstar from United States, February 10, 2005:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





I like this card.
Been using it for about three years. Initially it was for simple low-res web video clips and VCD's on my win 98 400mhz cpu 64mb ram setup. No problems, just the occasional crash with Pinnacle Studio 7.
Upgraded to XP and 2600+ cpu with studio 9 and started DVD creation. Great captures from old video tapes (only 60-100 drops on a full VHS sourced movie taped years ago) 0 frame drops from digital capture ie: Sky connection or from DVD player.
I only have two negatives. The studio software is a bit buggy and the captured files are only recognised by pinnacle software. Adobe can't find my card or files and Tmpeg can't either... they need to be converted to AVI
first...which leads me to my other negative:
I have to render the files overnight to MPEG2 format..takes in the region of 6-8 hours for a 90min. movie including the burn.

No problems with the studio burning software and with the thought of buying a hardware MPEG2 encoding card to upgrade...I decided that the DC10 is still the best thing for me.
All the budget MPEG2 encoders seem to have so many problems with conversion and software.
For steady reliable captures I still recommend the DC10.



Comments posted by M Shepley from United Kingdom, July 03, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





I have been using the Pnnacle DC10 Plus capture card since August 2001 starting with Pinnacle Studio ver. 7 then upgrade to ver. 8 and now ver. 9 and I found no major problem with it. The only problem that I encountered was when I used a motherboard with an SIS chipset which I discovered later thru the webforum its incompatibility. I later decided to upgade to the ASUS motherboard on P4 processor which is much faster during rendering.

My advise to DC10 plus users: render with DV Encoder for avi file and then use TMPGenc for encoding to mpeg for a smoother movie prior to VCD or SVCD burning. It is so far the best. Also read the webforums as it is very helpful.



Comments posted by edong from United States, May 19, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





I'm rather surprised at the "no Linux" mention, I used this card with the Zoran driver for more than a year, and transferred all my 150+ legacy VHS to DVD's. Can't really compare it with another, since I only tried briefly an Hauppage TV Go before, than got this Pinnacle at a clearance sale... At 25 Euros, truly my best buy ever !



Comments posted by Jyhelle from France, April 08, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 10 of 10.





Using DC10+ for a year I had no problems at all (installation and usage).
I guess the reviewers had either used old software, pc hardware or old version of the card.
The rating I gave it(7), reffers to the card itself (driver). It gives a good quality FOR ITS PRICE, but not too satisfying.
PS 8 I would rate 3, since it is very easy to use (comparing to Premier), but therefor its limitations...
Getting the latest update from Pinnacle site reduces its bugginess, but still rendering stops from time to time after 4 hours :(
There is nothing more frustrating than a buggy software!



Comments posted by kfir from Israel, March 29, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10.





It is fortunate that I did not have access to the internet and read the comments in these columns. Otherwise, I might never have bought my Pinnacle DC10 card!

Having used analogue camcorders for many years, I was looking to transfer my footage to digital format for the quality and editing facilities potentially available. I read a specialist magazine and was horrified to find it recommended capture hardware and software costing some £1500+. Anything cheaper was dismissed as next to useless. I came accross the Pinnacle Studio DC10 Plus package in PC Worsld for £69.99 and decided to give it a try.

The next step was ro put rogether a suitable PC. After taking account of necerssary data rates and storage capacity, I set up the following system:-

Asrock K7S8X motherboard with SIS 746FX chipset
AMD Athlon 2400XP processor
NVIDIA GeForce MX440 AGP 8X 64MB Graphics card
256MB DDR266 RAM
40 GB ATA100 Hard Drive primary IDE Master for programs and
general use
NEC 1300A DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW drive primary IDE slave
120 CB ATA133 Hard Drive secondary IDE master for video
capture/editing.

Imitially, my original Windows 98 would not load on the hardware properly and upgrade to 98SE was little better. Windows XP loaded and runs ok, so far! Installation of Pinnacle hardware and software went without a hitch and the results are excellent. I had some problems at first with analogue capture and output to S-VHS tape quality. These were traced to open circuit earth wires in my power extension cables. Despite a warmimg from the software that system speed may be too slow, I even get analogue captures direct to MPEG2 with no dropped frames. VCD, SVCD, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs play flawlessly on my DVD player with quality indistinguishable from the original. There aree sometimes intermittent/out of synch problems when viewing MPEG video with Studio's internal MPEG player, but the same files are flawless when played outside Studio.

Perhaps I have been lucky in my selection of hardware and my Pinnacle purchase being a DC10plus bundled with Srudio Version 8.10.06. Apart from the deliberate collusion between Microsft and the hardware system suppliers to ensure no backwards compatibility of new versions (the
sooner this momopoly is broken, the better for all of us), my study of the other writers' comments on this card/software would indicate that their problems have been related to system performance. Particularly since many
installations appear to work well initially, and degrade after a few minutes use. My XP2400 processor is running at 100% usage during rendering, 100% disc activity during disk compilation and 100% memory activity during disk burning. Efficient processor heat tranfer is therefore essential. Heatsink compound between processor chip and heatsink
should be applied, particularly with older/slower machines where the surfaces may have become tarnished. My system takes 2.5-3 times the final video running time to create edited output. It will take very significant increases in processor speed and disk access time to improve more than
marginally on this.

I have only two negative comments on this Pinnacle system;-
Firstly, since this is presumeably intended as an "amateur" entry system, I am disappointed that there is no subjective explanation of the effects on video quality of the various file/compression formats besides file size.
Secondly, I am used to having the ability to incorporate at least rudimentary picture-in-picture effects with my analogue editing system. Disappointingly this seems to be totally absent in Studio 8.

Apart from the two above comments, I can thoroughly recommend the Studio 8/DC10 combination. I cannot comment om Pinnacle's support service, not having needed it!! I hope my expeeiences will encourage others to take the plunge, and the earlier expletively disgruntled users to try again.



Comments posted by Derek Smith from United States, February 27, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





very nice i had studio 7 and now I upgrade to 8 and everything is going well i have made more than 50 svcd and dvd photo slide shows as well movies from old vhs tapes and
picture are quite good i use nero6 to burn to cd or dvd i cant understand why people claim so much WHY?
Am I so intelligent?
God is Brazilian



Comments posted by freiner from Brazil, February 07, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10.





The Pinnacle splash screen show a smiley woman holding a disk. I've seen her face so many times I'd like to knock her teeth out. It's not the card that's the problem it's the Studio 8 software. Crash, crash, crash, crash, crash. And at each re-load, there she is again, making you feel so happy you bought a Pinnacle product.

I can capture ok so long as I accept a few dropped frames and I don't capture for more than 25 minutes ( sound sync problems ) If I don't do anything clever like titles, menus or burn a DVD I can get away with a couple of hours of trouble free editing. Did I say clever, I mean useful.

I'm currently trying to burn a DVD with a menu. I expect to click the make disk button and get a disk that works. (Other Pinnacle users will now be falling about laughing).

When the card and the software work they are good. The problem is the other 364 days of the year. You've read the the reviews, visited the Pinnacle support (?) page, seen the grief, and have now been warned. DO NOT BUY.



Comments posted by Chris Moore from United Kingdom, January 25, 2004:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating.





The card is ok but the "pineapple" software sux bad if you're into capturing something beyond the VCD format. Always ended up with a captured file where the audio was out of synch and the video jerky towards the end.

Like many others, I own a vast many VHS tapes that I'd like to transfer to DVD. To make it short, I spent days and nights with all versions and upgrades and patches for both PCTV Pro and DC10+. The problem lies with the software and the quality of the codecs Pinnacle is using.

I finally saw the light when capturing from within Ulead DVD MovieFactory, using only PCTV as a capture device. Perfect full length movies, no audio synch problems or jerky playback. Just select MPEG output format and set up the parameters according to DVD specs. Reduce the quality setting from 15 to 10, no visible degradation but it reduces file size.

My setup: Fresh Win XP on a Pentium III 1 Ghz, 384 Mb RAM, 40 Gb disk. Less than ordinary PC specs these days. Captured to a separate partition, newly formatted, no fragmentation.

My 86 min movie became a 3,3 Gb MPEG2 file. Ready to go to DVD. Voila. Try it. Was it good for you too??



Comments posted by Finn Amundsen from Other, December 28, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4 MAC? Linux? - Rated: 1 of 10.





If this card is still available retail, dont buy it.
If its being given away free at McDonalds with a Happy meal, ask for a cash alternative.
I know a coupla people using this card, theirs work fine (or so they say!) mines crap.
Mind you being a newbie to analogue editing it could be me!(hey, i've only had the card 3 years an I could not get it functioning correctly-ie a decent AVI file- until I used XP with studio 7.15 in mid 2003!!! an even now its still problematic)
Tried it in countless systems (from PIII 800, PIII 1000,
AMD 1600 an 1800 an 2400 and finally a P4 2.4).
Using an assortment of graphics cards, HDs etc.
Video in (phono) connector needs jiggling for good connection (an its not the lead), then sometimes lotsa dropped frames, sometimes only a few.
OK now to cut AVIs and MPEG 2, but not consistently satisfactory quality.
I paid £140 nearly 3 years ago, now I wouldnt pay €50 for it.
Support/ customer service was none existent- I gave up trying.
Since buying this card new I must have wasted hours trying to get an acceptable result,I should just chuck the F******* thing away, but its one of lifes challenges!!!!!



Comments posted by mike deighton from Other, December 27, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 2 of 10.





I read about the problems that some people have with AMD - i however have no problems with that.

Specs:
ECS L7VTA / XP2600+/ 2 * 512 Dane Elec pc 2700/ 2 * 120gb Maxtor 8mb cache/ Nec 1100A/ Pioneer A-06/
Leadtek Ti4800SE.

I use the following programs:
* WindowsXP;
* Studio 8;
* DVD Lab;
* Nero.

Capturing is done from a analog camcorder
(JVC GR-FX12E) or my vcr (Panasonic NV-FJ620) of which i use the tuner if i wan't to capture "live" content.

I capture at max. settings which takes much space:
Custom settings/ Full Horizontal resolution/
NO CROPPING/ Both Vertical fields/ data rate 6000Kb/
Audio at 16 bit Stereo/ 48 Khz.
My 120gb capture-HD can grad some 6 hours of dv-quality which i then edit and convert to MPEG:
again Custom Presets: Include video/ 720 * 576/ MPEG2/
Data rate 5000kb/ audio 48Khz, 224 kbits/sec.
When i want to put a dvd out of around 4 hours i turn down the settings to 480 * 576 and the data rate to 2500kb - this gives better quality than 720 * 576 and a less "blurry" picture.

After this i import it in DVD Lab from Mediachance:
yes, i know you can do it with Studio 8, but DVD Lab let's you "put anything in" except for DivX.

I don't think the card is crappy, it just takes some more hd-space to get good quality - i was thinking about the Hauppauge PVR-250 just because it takes les hd-space, but i'm not completely convinced about the
quality of the captures - the DC10 does that perfect.

When i see that the card is only 50 or what dollars i wouldn't think twice about buying it - over here in Europe it is still 225 euro's(including Studio 8), which is around 264 dollar!!
With the ammount of money you can buy a 120/ 180gb Maxtor for the capturing and still have money left!!

Just a couple of links that are usefull:

Bitrate calculator: http://www.dvdrhelp.com/BitrateCalc.zip

DVD Lab: http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/index.html

Pinnacle Studio 8: http://www.pinnaclesys.com/ProductPage_n.asp?Product_ID=577&Langue_ID=7

Burnen: www.nero.com



Comments posted by Edwin from Other, November 13, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10.





Got my share of good and bad things about this card. It works fairly well with most capture software under Win98 SE and ME. Under Win2K and Xp, it works only with Pinnacle Studio 7 (and 8).
Another point (from me) is this card has problems running under AMD CPU's (don't know why). It runs fine with P-III and P4 but with AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz it crashes often. It looks like the card was designed around Intel CPU's.



Comments posted by MC from Other, November 01, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 6 of 10.





I encountered a series of proplems with my dc10plus using studio 8.5.
What I pain stakingly did to resolve them was the following -

Most importantly -
1. installed the most up to date driver available for the dc10plus card to run on winme.
2. installed directx 9b
3. installed the most up to date video card and sound card drivers
4. Installed the studio 8 update.
5. removed/uninstalled other capture hardware/software (except windows capture software).

Then just to make me feel better I installed...
1. media player 9
2. winme installer 2
3. Turned off antivirus software when installing and using.

Last resorts which I didn't take but was if needed-
1. update motherboard bios
2. install relevant O.S service pack

Absolute last resort-
1. Format Hard drive, re-install o.s, add most recent service pack, update all hardware drivers, install studio 10plus and editing software and nothing else, test for a few days without installing any other software.(Painful? I know pain).

Hope this helps some of you.

cheers



Comments posted by swampdemon from Other, October 20, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 7 of 10.





I use Studio 8.8 in combo with the card. I run a lower end system (1G Athlon, 512 SDRAM, LG 2x DVD burner, XP Home). I've captured over four hours of video from Video8 (in two 2 hour stints) with NO A/V sync issues and almost no dropped frames. Output to DVD-R is great, no coasters. It does take 10 hours to render 1 hour of DVD (I don't mind; I let it run over night; those who need to do work the same day, make sure you have a 2.5G or higher machine).

But even though it takes that long, I have great output. No issues like those in other postings.

One issue: TitleDeko will bomb during render if you have a scrolling message that is too long. Just make two (or more) messages out of one long one to bypass issue. (I didn't find anything on the Pinnacle support site about this)

The software does feel a little shaky sometimes, but my experience is good. I find it odd those with much more powerful systems in the other postings have so many problems. If you know what you are doing and follow best practices, and are not using generic components, the Studio AV combo should work just fine for you.



Comments posted by Bob from Other, September 18, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10.





When the card works, it works well. But getting there can be hard. The supporting software that I was using, Studio 7, has all kinds of stability problems. You can do the exact same thing several times in a row and get different results ranging from a crash to a succesful capture. I've moved to WinXP now and at least the whole PC doesn't go down now compared to Win98.

The card itself is poorly designed with insufficient power bypassing. This will result in diagonal grey lines across a capture in some PCs. Good engineering work by some DC-10 users was able to find a fix for the problem. Capacitors had to be added to the board directly on the chip used for the analog to digital conversion. See the message thread on the Pinnacle website at: http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/read_messages.asp ... &lng=1

It seems hard to believe that Pinnacle doesn't know about the problem

I'm not sure what Pinnacle's business model is but as another poster speculated, it may be to crank out a lot of marginal junk that will work on 95% of the PCs. It's great if you're in that 95%. But if you are in that other 5%, Pinnacle gives you little support and will not refund your money.



Comments posted by kwarner from Other, September 14, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 4 of 10.





I bought this card as part of the Pinnacle Studio 8 AV package, which includes the Studio 8 software and the DC10plus capture card. Although I make my living with computers, I a complete newbie to video caputure. I bought this package for approximately $100 (US) from Circuit City in hopes of converting my 8mm analog tapes to SVCD or DVD. I had done some major research on the newsgroups and this website, and the thing I was most afraid of was dropped frames and audio/video sync problems with my PIII 850Mhz/384MB RAM/onboard sound. You do have to use your sound card to capture audio with this card, but I bought the connector at Radio Shak for $3.

The software and card installed with no major problems. I really liked the simplicity and functionality of the Studio 8 software. As it turned out, I had no problems with dropped frames or audio/video sync, although I never attempted to capture more than 8 minutes of video. The problem was video quality...it was terrible! After burning an SVCD and playing it back in my DVD player, I realized it looked like something filmed in the 1970's, instead of just a few months ago. The colors were washed out (yes, I tried tweaking this in the software) and the video was blocky and slightly jerky.

I thought the problem might be the SVCD format, so in lieu of a DVD burner I started rendering DVD's to the hard drive and playing them back with BlazeDVD...the quality was still the same no matter what settings I tweaked.

I spoke with a colleague who has the same package and he was getting the same results. After several days of tweaking and upgrading, I finally decided to take it back and save up for a digital camcorder with analog pass-thru capability. I give Circuit City a major "thumbs up" for their return policy. As long as you return computer stuff within 14 days there are no questions and no restocking fee....but beware of this card!



Comments posted by keys from Other, August 23, 2003:
Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 3 of 10.




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