In most cases, this should not present any problem, especially if the installer in question is familiar enough with hardware to identify and remove a jumper without damaging the board.
One note about installation of the DV300: Mac users are required to remove a jumper from the board before installation. It is also interesting to note that Pinnacle warns against using the DV300 with AMD K6 233MHz and Cyrix 200 chips, video cards that use the Permedia OpenGL chipset and the IBM Aptiva and Compaq Presario lines of computers.
#Mac using firewire for movie capture drivers
Purchasers of the DV300 should check to see what version of the drivers they have, and then be prepared to upgrade to the latest drivers if necessary. To remedy the situation, we just downloaded the latest version of the drivers (version 1.6 at the time of this review) from the Pinnacle Web site ( and then installed the board without a hitch. Our first attempt, however, was unsuccessful installation of the drivers that came with the board failed to produce a working product. Our installation of the DV300 for the review was fairly simple. Since the board is aimed at the advanced hobbyist and low-level professional video market, we performed our tests with the goals and aspirations of both kinds of video producers in mind. It offers FireWire inputs for easy transfer of footage from a digital camcorder or VCR, as well as an UltraWide SCSI adapter on the same board, presumably to accommodate an UltraWide SCSI A/V hard drive.įor our test, we installed the DV300 into our Benchmarks test computer* (350MHz Intel Pentium II, 192MB RAM, 9GB IBM UltraStar SCSI drive, Matrox 6200 video card) and put the board through its paces using the Sony CCD-TRV900 as a DV source and Adobe Premiere 5.1 as our editing software.
In the race to provide digital video professionals and hobbyists with IEEE 1394 FireWire solutions, Pinnacle Systems’ miroVIDEO DV300, aimed at the advanced hobbyist and prosumer alike, is in the middle of the pack between inexpensive FireWire cards like the DPS Spark and full-blown video production powerhouses like the FAST DV Master Pro.
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