Title: Very troublesome
Product review: The DV500 is a very picky piece of hardware. I have yet to get it working as advertised in my system, a system I hand built around Pinnacle's specifications. The configuration guide sent to my by Pinnacle explains that the DV500 will only work in one specific PCI slot, and then only if it is forced to a certain set of IRQs, (it uses 3 IRQs). It also requires an older, outdated set system drivers, drivers that are not directly related to the DV500. Even with a system build and configured precisely to Pinnacle standards, the DV500 will not output the realtime effects, and will not output video via the FireWire. I'm not new to video editing, and have never needed tech help for anything, until I bought the DV500. A better bet: by a $50 firewire card, and a good video editing program.
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