One Card for All Video Editors
ACEDVio is the world’s only analog and DV editing card that is completely compatible with hundreds of video editing applications and all widely used video equipment. Whether it’s a Windows® or Mac OS® computer, VHS or DV camera, Final Cut Pro®, Avid Xpress®, Adobe® Premiere® Pro, Vegas® or Grass Valley EDIUS Pro NLE software, ACEDVio is the one card for all editing environments, providing the broadest compatibility, longest product life and highest return on investment.

One Card for All DV and Analog Video Editing
Grass Valley ACEDVio features analog and DV input/output with native, open-standard OHCI support for all popular video cameras and decks, including VHS, S-VHS, Hi8, Digital8, DV and DVCAM (supporting NTSC and PAL video standards).

One Card for Any Computer
Grass Valley ACEDVio is designed to work with both Windows and Mac OS computers. Easy one-card installation requires no additional software drivers.

One Card for Any Editing Application
Grass Valley ACEDVio is ready to edit on any computer with any OHCI compatible editing application. Such applications include Final Cut Pro, Avid Xpress, Adobe Premiere Pro, Vegas, Avid Liquid™, Ulead® MediaStudio Pro and Windows® Movie Maker.

One card with the world’s best analog and DV technology
At the heart of ACEDVio is the innovative Canopus DV codec chip providing the industry's best picture quality preservation and locked audio support during analog-to-DV conversion and capture. Locked audio ensures perfect audio and video synchronization at all times.

One Card with the Broadest Compatibility, Longest Product Life and Highest Return on Investment
When it comes to analog and DV editing, only Grass Valley ACEDVio provides multi-platform compatibility with an open standard OHCI FireWire interface. OHCI provides the broadest editing software support, ensuring a long product life and high return on investment.

ACEDVio: Key Features

• Provides analog and DV input/output compatibility for leading editing and DVD authoring applications
• Connects to all widely used analog and DV cameras and decks
• Compatible with Windows and Mac OS computers
• Provides the industry’s highest quality bidirectional analog/DV conversion with locked audio support
• Provides video output to a monitor or television while editing
• Features adjustable brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and sharpness controls on analog video input*
• Ensures a longer product life and a high return on investment with the broadest editing software support and video equipment compatibility

ACEDVio: Specifications

• ACEDVio PCI bus card
• 1 x FireWire cable (4-pin - 4-pin)
• 1 x S-Video to composite conversion cable
• User manual
• ACEDVio controller software CD-ROM (Windows support only)

• 4-pin FireWire connector

• 6-pin FireWire connector

• S-video and composite combined (7-pin miniDIN) input
• S-video and composite combined (7-pin miniDIN) output

• Stereo RCA input
• Stereo RCA output

• Link layer complies with IEEE 1394 Open Host Controller Interface specification release 1.1
• Physical layer complies with IEEE 1394a-2000 (Data rate: 100/200/400Mbps)
• Modular 32-bit host interface complies with PCI specification release 2.2
• WDM driver compliancy and support

• Intel® Pentium® III 800MHz or AMD Athlon™ 800MHz CPU or faster
• 256MB RAM; CD-ROM drive
• Windows® 2000 (requires Service Pack 3 or higher), Windows® XP Home or Windows® XP Professional (requires Service Pack 1 or higher)
• Graphics card capable of supporting hardware-based DirectDraw overlay and 24-bit color display at a 1024x768 resolution
• AV-rated hard disk drive (10MB/sec minimum sustained transfer)
• One free bus-mastering PCI slot (v2.1 or later)

• MacOS 9 or later
• 1 free bus-mastering PCI slot (v2.1 or later)
• Software application supporting OHCI capture (eg. iMovie, Final Cut Pro)

• Limited warranty
• Access to the Product-related Downloads section for ACEDVio, when you register your product in an active Canopus User Account

• How to Buy

• User Manual

• EDIUS NLE software