Osprey Ease combines the Osprey-300 video capture card and Adobe® Premiere® Elements into a powerful video capture, editing, streaming, and DVD authoring tool all at an attractive price.

Ease offers business video producers a complete editing and authoring package for implementing an end-to-end video production tools. Multimedia producers will enjoy the simplicity of Ease because it combines the necessary video production elements into one easy-to-use tool!

Professional video production without investing a lot of money.

With a commercial DV camera, Osprey Ease, a desktop PC, and a DVD burner, Osprey Ease is an excellent package for capturing, editing and delivering training, distance learning, corporate communications and other business video content via DVD disks and video over IP networks.

Ease provides simultaneous capture and real-time video streaming through the analog port and direct capture from DV devices into Premiere Elements! And with the OHCI capability of the Osprey-300, you have complete control over your DV devices – stop, rewind, record from your desktop.

Osprey Ease includes:

Osprey-300 A video capture card with analog streaming capability when utilized with Windows Media Encoder and/or Real Producer. Also includes an OHCI compliant DV (FireWire) port providing DV control and capture using standard editing software.
Adobe® Premiere® Elements A user-friendly video editing and DVD burning application. Give your business videos the professional touch!
RealProducer Basic Create and stream video in RealAudio and RealVideo formats over IP networks.
Windows Media Encoder Deliver audio and video quality at any bit rate, with features designed to provide superior quality at dial-up rates, and home-theater-like experiences over broadband connections or for download and play.

FEATURES

• Deck Control via DV port
• Video capture from analog devices into Windows Media, RealVideo & AVI formats
• Real-time video streaming from analog video devices into Windows Media & RealVideo formats
• Capture from DV devices directly into Premiere Elements
• Automatically transfer all footage from DV devices
• Output edited video to tape or stream in Windows Media and Real Video
• WHQL-Certified, WDM/AVStream driver
• Cascadable architecture allows for multiple Osprey-Ease's per chassis
• Advanced DMA for ultra-high performance (full 30 fps)
• Hardware audio gain control for analog audio inputs
• Closed Caption extraction
• Hardware Cropping and Bitmap Overlay
• AVI or extended AVI capture for use with the most popular third-party editing and streaming software applications (e.g., Adobe Premiere Pro, Flash®, RealProducer® 10, Windows Media 9)
• PCI-X compatible
• Breakout cable included for video and audio inputs
• Adobe® Premiere® Elements included
• Options: Breakout box or Rackmount panel
• Osprey SimulStream Ready (analog only)
  

Edit and author with a professional touch!

• Automatic timeline adjustment when editing video
• Smart "How-To" guides
• Edit in real time
• Add special effects; slow motion, warping, and picture-in-picture capability
• Create titles and credits
• Put text and graphics in motion
• Add scene transitions
• Overlay text with effects; shadows, glows, and other effects to text
• Burn custom DVD's
• Create professional-looking DVD menu
• Create scene indexes automatically
• Standard (4:3) or widescreen (16:9) support
  

FireWire and Streaming Capture Card Included!

Osprey Ease features ViewCast's Osprey-300 video capture card. The Osprey-300 is an analog video capture and streaming card that includes an OHCI compliant DV (FireWire) port. Using Adobe Premiere Elements editing software and a DV device (e.g., DV camera or DV deck), you can capture, control, edit, and stream professional quality videos. And use the FireWire port to take your videos back out to tape.

The Osprey-300 also features PCI-X bus compatibility providing high-performance/high-bandwidth data transfer – a MUST for capturing full-resolution DVD-quality video. The Osprey-300 hardware is backward-compatible with the standard PCI bus interface as well so it will work in your current PC today and be future-ready for your next system upgrade tomorrow!

Specifications

• Video Input: Composite (BNC), S-Video
• 1394 I/O: IEEE 1394a, 1394b
• Audio Input: Balanced stereo (2 x XLR), Unbalanced stereo (2 x RCA)
• Audio Output: Unbalanced stereo line level (3.5 mm) (Loop out)
• 64-bit/66-MHz PCI Interface
• 32-bit/33-MHz PCI Compatible
• 3.3-V PCI 2.3 compliant
• Windows® 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP
• Form factor: STandard PCI short Card (6.6" x 4.2")