I dont use a capture card / box so cant comment but the canopus box is widely used and favoured.

As for editing, i use vegas and find it easy to use and powerfull, but I havent really tried all the others for very long. I dont think vegas is inderpowered in the video department as it has lots of keyframeable effects.

Sometimes it is criticised by pros as it uses an 8 bit colour space not 10 bit like some other progs that the pros favour, but I dont think that is a probelm for most of us, to be honest I aqm not really sure how that effects a user.

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