Like MPEG Wizard and Python, Dazzle can stream video to your monitor during capture, allowing you to preview the compressed video quality on the fly. The compact Dazzle unit has a power light but lacks an activity indicator. MetaCreations Kai's Power Goo, Gryphon Morph, Adobe PhotoDeluxe, Astound Studio M, VDO VDOPhone. This first version of FutureTel's Sphinx Pro comes with a complete set of tools for organizing, trimming and editing clips and still-image captures. Sphinx Pro is the only product we tested that includes audio-capture hardware.
Numerical displays provide frame position, duration and file size.
Then click over to the ClipGlue editing utility, which features a storyboard interface for compiling video sequences. ClipGlue also allows you to combine a single audio clip with a series of video clips and stills to create a quick presentation. Sphinx Pro ties with Python for the highest image quality among the digital video encoders reviewed. Overall, Sphinx out-performs the others, but it's not perfect. An apparent bug in the still-image capture mode shifts the two fields of a frame, making the picture unusable until one of the fields is removed.