John,
They don't provide editing software with their cards, but as far as capture software they deal primarily with WinTV. I am using version 7 right now. I know that Mpeg capture has tranmission issues with it and audio and video often come across with dropped frames and sync errors. Thus the whole demux process and repairing the individual streams. ProjectX does an excellent job with that. Previously though, when I ran Premiere 3.0.2 it seemed to handle the demux/repair issue itself when it imported the files. That was in XP on a 32 bit system when it worked great. However, in Vista-64 bit version 3.0.2 lags horribly and freezes, which is expected since 3.0 was launched before Vista really came into play (the 3.0.2 patch was supposed to add Vista support but not 64-bit). I suspected and found that the newer versions are fully compatible with Vista/7 and was pleased to see the new 64-bit capability in version 10. Unfortunately, if it doesn't handle TV tuner files very well... quite unfortunate. Maybe I'm wrong, but I would imagine most home video editors would fit into one of a couple categories. Either they are editing home movies from their video cams as Steve mentioned, or I would imagine there is also a large segment of people like me who also want to edit/compress their HDTV captures so we dont have to deal with commercials and to save hard drive space. Of course thats for folks like me who dont have a HD-DVR on a sat/cable plan. LOL, maybe we are more rare than I thought.
