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Our workstations will have it as an option early next year, and our software should support it soon.
But there is an easy way to capture it right now if your existing PC has a DV input.
All Windows systems come with the free Microsoft Movie Maker.
Use Movie Maker to do your capturing and then the files will import into Bogart.

You can even get analog video in using this method, but you need an analog to DV converter.
We sell the top of the line Grass Valley ADVC-110 with power supply for $295.
Most of your DV cameras can be used for this purpose too.
Plug in your analog video audio cables into to your camcorder, play the tape,
and set the camera to output DV into Movie Maker.

Good tip Gary. I use a rather complicated editing software and simply convert my timeline to the codec used in Bogart. I then can quickly edit in BOGART.

Also, if your PC doesn't have a DV input, the HW is relatively simple and inexpensive to add to a PC.
For a desktop the board is installed internally, for a laptop externally.
Here is an informative video I saw on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BthebohwsDk

We will be releasing our own desktops and laptops with the DV option soon.
However, if you are adventurous and need it now, please let us know what works and doesn't work for you.

I just started using the trial for BFW, understanding that version 7 is coming, but wanted to test out anyway. I have a Sony Vaio laptop with i5 processor, Windows 7, 6 g ram. I was surprised at how slow importing of a video takes. Granted it is 17g of an mts file, but 3 hours later it is less than halfway through. Using Powerdirector 13, it takes seconds to load into the program. Is this normal?
JP

I have a Sony Vaio 1-7 etc. imports just as fast as my KARAT.

Hi JP,
You had a format mismatch. With Bogart Windows v7 it will tell you of the mismatch so you can change it. But on B6, just cancel anything that is going slow. Find out what format it was shot in, and set the Bogart 6 Project format the same. Otherwise, it imports and transcodes at the same time sloooowly.