I haven't tried scenalyzer but I'm open to anything. I know that WinDV has been pretty bulletproof, as it's a no-frills package. I've found firewire drives to be more reliable than IDE drives when capturing. I've had dropped frames on my IDE drive, which have resulted in me trashing a capture and starting all over again.

I do wish the Canopus allowed for captures other than DV. I can't capture an uncompressed signal with it. I was unaware of that when I purchased it, else I'd just have invested in a straight video card. Still, it's been decent. The only truly crummy looking capture I've done so far is The Delicate Sound of Thunder. With all its slo-mo and smoke, the end result really didn't look good, even at 8000 kbits/sec. But with full PCM audio, I had to tell myself, which is more important, to hear the show or to watch the show?