Canopus Bulletins
Friday, May 23, 2003
DVStorm2 Premiere plug-in updated to fix an
error when using the Trim function
Canopus has released a version 1.00a update to the
Premiere plug-in for the DVStorm2. The update fixes an error that
occurs when using the Trim function in Premiere. The patch can be
downloaded for free from the Canopus
web site .
Monday, May 19, 2003
DVStorm2 software updated to resolve errors
in audio playback
Canopus has released a version 2.01 patch to their
DVStorm2 software that resolves an audio playback error in StormAudio
and a separate issue in StormEdit. The patch can be downloaded for
free from the Canopus
web site.
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Canopus updates DVStorm2 3DRT software
Canopus has released a version 2.00b patch for the
3DRT software included with the DVStorm2. The patch fixes some
problems experienced in Premiere and StormEdit with 3DRT and 3D Picture
in Picture. The patch can be downloaded for free from the Canopus
web site.
Monday, October 21, 2002
DVStorm2 software update now available
Canopus has released a version 2.00a patch for their
DVStorm2. The patch consists of two executable files, with readme
files, zipped together in one file for easy downloading. The
DVStorm2 2.00 drivers and applications must be installed before you
install the patch. Among the files that are updated are StormEdit,
StormVideo, StormEncoder and 3D Picture in Picture. The 2.00a
patch can be downloaded for free from the Canopus
web site.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002
DVStorm driver version 1.04 available
The new V1.04 Storm driver
incorporates the fixes of 1.03a and 1.03b into one driver. It also fixes
Macrovision detection problems that were present in the previous driver
release. Changes incorporated into V1.03 include: support for
QuickTime 5, realtime speed control in Adobe Premiere from -10,000% to
10,000%, improved encoding speed of software DV CODEC by supporting SSE2,
and fixes for batch capture errors, tape out errors, analog capture
errors, and analog output errors in certain configurations. This
driver can be downloaded from the Canopus
web site
.
Thursday, September 20, 2001
DVStorm software update now available
Canopus
has posted version 1.03 of the DVStorm software on the Canopus
web site.
This new version has many performance enhancements including real-time
speed control in Premiere and improved encoding speed that uses the SSE2
instructions. It also fixes some batch capture errors with some
systems and analog capture errors with some camcorders.
Friday, August 10, 2001
DVStorm software update for PAL users
capturing analog video
Canopus has released a free update to their DVStorm
software that is fixes problems when capturing PAL analog video.
If the user is experiencing pink video frames or errors in video frames
this patch to the DVStorm software should fix it. The patch can be
downloaded for free from the Canopus
web site
and requires that DVStorm version 1.02 software already be installed on
the system.
Wednesday, August 8, 2001
Canopus SoftMPEG upgrade available to fix
PAL export issues
Canopus has released version 1.06 of their SoftMPEG
software encoder that is included with many of their video editing cards
such as the DVStorm. This software has several improvements
including fixes for PAL users having crashes when running Windows 9x or
Me. This 1.06 upgrade is available as a free download from the Canopus
web site
and requires that SoftMPEG already be installed on the system.
Thursday, June 21, 2001
Newest Canopus products won't capture
unstable analog video
Canopus has designed their latest boards, namely the
DVStorm and the DVRex RT Professional, so that they will not capture an
unstable analog video signal. On capture, the user will see the
video on the computer screen, and may see video for a short period of time
on the video output, but the video output will turn gray and the
captured clip will appear the same on playback. Customers may want
to send their analog video through a TBC before feeding it into the
capture card if they experience this problem. Commercial videotapes
with copy protection in the video signal will also show the symptoms
described above.
Sunday, June 3, 2001
Canopus releases Premiere 6.0 compatible
software for DVRex RT
Users of the DVRex RT can now take advantage of new
features found in Adobe Premiere 6.0 if they download the 2.93a drivers
from the Canopus
web site.
Key features when used with Premiere 6.0 include: supports
real time audio mixer, supports shuttle mode, supports AVI2 CDVC/DVSD file
read out (this function does not work under Windows NT 4.0), fixed PinP
preference handling.
Friday, May 18, 2001
Canopus releases updated software for
DVRaptor and DVStorm
Canopus has posted on their web site new versions of
the DVRaptor and DVStorm software. The DVRaptor software is now at
version 2.11 and is now certified by Adobe for use with Premiere
6.0. It does not yet support the Audio Mixer and Stop Motion Capture
features in Premiere. The DVStorm software is now at version 1.02
and fixes several issues including an error when editing in 16:9 mode, it
supports the real time audio mixer and supports shuttle mode. The
new software can be downloaded for free from the Canopus
web site.
Friday, March 9, 2001
Canopus releases updated DVStorm software
Canopus has released version 1.01
software for their DVStorm that has been certified by Adobe for use with
Premiere 6.0. It also includes plug-ins for Premiere 6.0 that let it
work better with the DVStorm. To install the software you will need
to make sure that you already have Windows Media files and QuickTime 4
installed on your system. You will also need to remove any previous
installations of the DVStorm software from your computer. The 1.01
software can be downloaded from the Canopus
ftp site.
Monday,
February 5, 2001
Capturing analog video in Premiere with DVRex 2.91 software doesn't
work
There is a known issue in the 2.91 version of the
DVRex software that will not allow the user to capture analog video from
within Premiere. This will be fixed in the next DVRex software
release which is due out by the end of this month, but until then people
will have to capture analog video in the Canopus software and then import
it into Premiere.
Tuesday, January
30, 2001
Installing Canopus Xplode under Windows 2000
When installing the Canopus Xplode graphics card with
version 2.1 of the installation CD-ROM under
Windows 2000, you want to make sure and use the Windows NT 4.0 drivers
that can be found on the Xplode installation CD-ROM. Windows 2000
will default to use the generic NVIDIA TNT 2 drivers (since this is what
chipset the card uses) but these drivers will not let you use the Xplode
transitions.
Tuesday,
January 23, 2001
Reading AVI files on machines that don't have the card used to capture
the video
Something that may be confusing is that if you capture
video using one capture card, and then transfer the file to another
machine (or replace the capture card with a different one), you normally
will not be able to use the file that you originally captured. This
is because the card you used (i.e. DC30pro or something similar) is what
compresses the video on capture and decompresses it on playback.
Without that card being present the computer does not know how to
interpret the video. There are some exceptions to this rule.
Canopus has released a software codec that allows the video from their
cards (i.e. DVRaptor, DVRex-M1, EZDV) to be read (not changed) on
basically any Windows machine. Matrox has released similar software
for their RT2000. These packages can be downloaded from the Canopus
web site
and the Matrox
web site
respectively. If you do not have one of these cards, and want to
play the video on a different machine than what was used to capture the
video, then you will have to render the video using a software codec
This will allow the video to be read on any machine but you may have
limited resolution or frame rate. More information on the various
codecs and their uses can be found on the Terran
Interactive web site,
which is now part of Media 100.
Friday, August 25, 2000
DVRaptor 2.0 software released
Canopus has released version 2.0 software for the
DVRaptor. The two main new features it offers are Windows 2000
support and software preview that doesn't require connection of a digital
video camcorder. The file can be found on the Canopus
web site.
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