IntroDV

by MEDIA 100

Product Features

• Media Cleaner 4 EZ
• Digital Origin PhotoDV Software
• Mouse And Keyboard Control Of Your Camcorder
• Drag-and-drop Video And Audio Clips Into The Story Window

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00002S5GN
• Item model number: 752
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,660 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

IntroDV by Digital Origin gives you an easy way to make great-looking movies on your PC. With excellent quality at a breakthrough price, this package includes everything you need to capture and edit movies. Just install the PCI FireWire card provided, connect your DV camcorder or tape deck to the card with the FireWire cable (also provided) and start up the software. Capture clips and scenes from the camera or deck, arrange them on the story line, and add transitions, effects, and music. You can shorten clips, move them around, or insert still images. A single button will save your finished project back to tape--ready for viewing. Or, use the power of QuickTime to create Web movies and video e-mail.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What a great product, December 15, 2000

By 

John E. Keim (Allentown, PA USA) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: IntroDV (CD-ROM)

I read many reviews for this type of product. MOst of them were horror stories but decided to go ahead and purchase it anyways.

I followed the documentation, step by step, for the installation (Win98). The installation document reflected what I saw. I rebooted my PC, connected the cable , cranked up the app, and voila! I creatde my first movie with 20 minutes. It was pretty intuitive. What wasn't intuitive I found through the help files.

While the first movie wasn't great, I learned how to tweak various settings to get an acceptable jitter-free playback.

Does it have all the bells and whistles of other products? Probably not but for my purposes it satisfies my needs. I showed my 10 year old how to use it and to him it was intuitively obvious how to use it.

There's even a tutorial included that I may get around to looking at some day.

I can't wait to shoot some movies over Christmas. I'll CDs with movies and give them to my parents to replay later.

The only reason why it didn't get five stars is that the system requirements were stated three different ways; once on Amazon, once on the outside of the box, and once on the instructions. Also there were addendums to the instructions that if I hadn't looked at them would have really screwed me up.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Product, Lousy Install in Win 2000, December 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: IntroDV (CD-ROM)

I purchased IntroDV in October 2000 because at the time it was the only consumer grade digital video solution that worked under Windows 2000. Amazon does not indicated that, but Digital Origin's web site does. After much pain and suffering it is actually working on Windows 2000 and I'm quite happy with it. The installation was unreasonably difficult.

The first problem was that Amazon sent me a 1.0 CD whereas only version 1.1, released in May 2000, works with Win2k. Selling an old version months after the new one is released is not very nice. Digital Origin's web site contains an updater from 1.0 to 1.1, so I figured that updating would not be a problem. Wrong. It seems that the updater only works after you have installed 1.0 and 1.0 will not even install under Win2k.

I emailed Digital Origin and they sent me a 1.1 CD at no charge. I was then able to install IntroDV, but it didn't work. I emailed Digital Origin again and received no response so I called them. The support person said that he would email me a 40 step procedure that would solve the problem. I followed this procedure several times very carefully and still no luck. The problem was a missing entry point in a dll. I emailed Digital Origin again and they sent back a replacement dll. I deleted the original, which was installed by the IntroDV 1.1 installer, and dropped the new dll in place. That got it working. And about time.

I've only made a few movies so far. Mostly I've been experimenting with the different export formats, learning what the tradeoffs are in terms of file size and image quality. I can't comment on the editing features except to say that I've been able to figure out how to do everything I want to do without too much trouble.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars In a word: Disappointing., April 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: IntroDV (CD-ROM)

After using my friend's iMac to edit Mini DV video, I finally decided to buy an editor for my PC. Using my Canon ZR10 camera, I have acquired a lot of footage and had no editor.

After the package arrived today, I went through the easy installation and booted up the program. I captured some video from the camera, and immediately was disappointed. Don't be fooled by the "DV" in IntroDV. A more fitting title would be "IntroMOV," because rather than capturing in DV format, the program takes your videos and puts them in more generic .mov format.

I also noticed a change of the color of the video, which never happened with Apple's iMovie. I spent several hours fooling around with it, then decided I am going to stop screwing around and buy a TRULY functional DV editor: an iMac. If you're serious enough, don't waste the "$..." on this product--save yourself the disappointment.