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The ultimate DV capture and editing solution. A complete, fully integrated hardware/software solution, Pyro A/V Link Professional provides the best value and the best components for capturing, editing, and exporting both analog and digital video in real time. Pyro AV Link with Premiere Elements includes Pyro AV Link, an external box that connects to your computer via FireWire. With Composite, S-video, and component-video connectors, you can capture video from any source.
. For video editing, it includes Adobe Premiere Elements software offers the perfect combination of creative control and reliability for home video editing. It automates tedious tasks so you're free to create cool effects and transitions and easily burn DVDs (Adobe Premiere Elements works only with Windows XP).
What's in the Box
Pyro A/V Link device, Adobe Premiere Elements, a 6-foot composite-video/stereo audio cable (red, yellow, white RCA jacks), a 6-foot S-video cable (4-pin Din), a 6-foot 6-pin-to-6-pin IEEE 1394 cable, a 6-foot 4-pin-to-4-pin 1394 cable, an AC power adapter, a user's manual, and warranty information.
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3.1 out of 5 stars (19 customer reviews)
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Disregard the 1-star review, July 17 2005
By mondodoug "mondodoug" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: ADS Pyro AV Link (Personal Computers)
This device will indeed capture from component video. I've submitted a picture showing a snapshot of something captured from a HD channel. To do this, I had to set the output of the HD receiver to 4:3 ratio, tell it to output HD/Widescreen in Letterbox, and change the type to 480i. You'll wind up with the black bars above and below your widescreen video. The simplest software that I know of to remove the bars is Dr. DivX. You may be able to do it with the included Adobe Premiere Elements. I haven't fully learned the software yet. So basically, through component you won't be capturing video in true HD resolution but it will be roughly DVD quality.Personally, I'm pleased with my purchase. It would have been nice to get true HD captures, but I think that may be a digital signal and this box captures analog only. It says so clearly in the specs.
Can't wait for football season!
Also wanted to say that Amazon shrunk the picture. It was 720 pixels wide when submitted (same as video).
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
It works GREAT on Mac with iMovie!, Sep 3 2005
By Jim - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: ADS Pyro AV Link (Personal Computers)
VERY EASY to use! GREAT results!I bought it to transfer analog video from an old Sony Hi8 camera to my Mac for burning onto DVD. Hooks up in less than 5 minutes with all cables included to connect your camera to the computer. (S video, RCA Video and stereo audio RCA's, 4-Pin DV, Component Video).
The only thing to remember to do (clearly marked in instructions) is to select "Analog" with the push button "mode switch" when capturing from analog sources, or you may end up with very jumpy captures. 1 simple click of the button, and it works perfectly!! Also read in some other reviews that disconnecting an iSight camera from a mac will help the computer to recognize the transfer box. But didn't to on my system.
I'm running a 2.7GHZ Power Mac G5 with OSX - Tiger. iMovie recognizes the Pyro A/V Link as if it were a digital video camera. Captures effortlessly and the quality looks as good as the source to my non-pro eye.
Definitely ignore that 1-star rating (at least for the RCA camera connections that I've used). This is a truly great product!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bare bones, but works as advertised!, July 19 2006
By Bob Shuster - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: ADS Pyro AV Link (Personal Computers)
I bought this unit to transfer family movies from an analog Sony Handicam and from old VHS tapes. I also needed it to work with both Mac OS and Windows computers. I have only tried it with the Mac OS and iMovie so far and it works great when transferring from the Handicam or directly from a cable TV feed. I've not yet tried using it with Windows or VHS tape, but I suspect my results will be similar.My only complaints and the reason for the 4-star review: Of the cables included, I've only used the RCA cable and the firewire cable, and the RCA cable was of low quality. I replaced it with a thicker cable with gold connectors to improve transfer quality. Also, and this is nitpicky for sure, the lights (leds) on the front of the unit are way too bright, so bright in fact that when they are lit I can't read the labels (Power/Analog/Digital) silk-screened above and below them on the face of the unit.
As for the included software, I can't address that as I didn't open it or need it - I plugged it into my Mac and it simply worked.
I'd recommend this product for what I'm using it for - especially for the price.
