http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Forums Tag: capturing en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:30:32 +0000 http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-capture#post-41325 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:33:20 +0000 RockstarRider 41325@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>yup ive noticed that...miniDV is the path into professional editing.....very good...yeah i will certainly get a miniDV camcorder for christmas...and some tapes and UV filter and maybe extra battery...oh yeah and firewire cable..i almost forgot..ha...</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-capture#post-41323 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:29:57 +0000 robgrauert 41323@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <blockquote><p>"i would never ever recommend miniDVD camcorder for people that want to get into serious editing..a bunch of problems come up"</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p> </blockquote> MiniDV is actually quite reliable. Ever since I got into video I've been using miniDV and I still use it to this day, and many others do too. It's cost effective and is capable of recording a decent image. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-capture#post-41321 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:26:00 +0000 RockstarRider 41321@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>yeah!...thats good...i would never ever recommend miniDVD camcorder for people that want to get into serious editing..a bunch of problems come up...i should of researched more about them..hopefull i will have better editing experiences with miniDV...sometime when i COULD import the DVD it didnt take long like maybe 5 min for 20 min of footage..i will have to get used to like waiting the entire minidv to get capture..but like i could go do something else while its is capturing...go to the bathroom or something..ha..minidv is good...</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-capture#post-41316 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:18:43 +0000 robgrauert 41316@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Yes, your computer can definitely handle DV editing. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-capture#post-41314 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:16:56 +0000 RockstarRider 41314@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Well i have a hp computer and has an 80GB hard drive but i bought a 640GB external drive  so imma capture the video to it..also it has a 2.7GHZ Intel Celeron Processor  with 1GB of RAM...and i have a firewire port..is this good enough..??</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-capture#post-41312 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:13:11 +0000 robgrauert 41312@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Capture to an external hard drive or a second internal hard drive. Never capture to your primary hard drive. Also, I've been told the hard drive speed should be no slower than 7200rpm.</p> <p> One hour of video is 12-13GB, although, I've also been told you don't want to fill your hard drive more than half way because then it's only working half as good. So for example, I wouldn't fill a 500GB hard drive more than 250GB.</p> <p> I believe dropped frames has to do with the speed of your drive. If you're talking about drop out, which is when some pixels are like, not there and look like the color of rainbows kinda, then that has to do with having dirty heads in your camcorder or deck.</p> <p> You need firewire as well.  </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-capture#post-41310 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:08:23 +0000 RockstarRider 41310@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>if i get a miniDV camcorder and capture the video in vegas pro 8, What are the requirements for my PC to capture the entire 1-hour video smoothly without dropping lots of frames...and be able to preview it..</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/weird-capturing-problem#post-35522 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:40:34 +0000 Johnboy 35522@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>hmmm... you are correct to want to capture dv-avi and not mpeg.  Take a look at a program called scenalyzer, I know there is a freeware version on their website as well as a new version, don't know what that costs.  Use that to capture and report back results.  I don't think the drive is causing the issue...</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/weird-capturing-problem#post-35519 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:45:08 +0000 Jazzy88 35519@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>That is a good thought but I am actually capturing to an external Seagate FreeAgent drive with 400 GB of free space. Could it be the fact that it's external be causing a problem?</p> <p>Another thing is I don't understand why when the software is configured to capture in MPEG format both the preview and capture of the video are fine. It's only when I change the format to DV_AVI that is gets all choppy and messed up. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/weird-capturing-problem#post-35511 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:46:28 +0000 Johnboy 35511@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>there are many factors that can cause this issue, but at first glance I would suspect that you are trying to capture the files to your system drive making your computer work overtime.   You need to capture your files to a "physical" drive that is separate from your system drive.  Make sure that the drive is formatted properly (if your drive is formatted as FAT32, you will get files in chunks of maximum 4 gig, If the drive is NTFS, and it should be, then you will get full files, i.e. 1 hour of video is approximatly 13 gigs of microsoft avi file type)</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/weird-capturing-problem#post-35495 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:51:16 +0000 Jazzy88 35495@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm attempting to convert some VHS tapes to DVD and I'm having a problem that has me stumped. The VCR I am using to play the taps is a RCA VR706HF - it's a 4 head HiFi VCR. My first attempt was to the VCR to my Datavideo DAC-100 video converter which was then connected to my computer thru a firewire card, and I was using <a href="http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Ulead_Videostudio">Ulead Video Studio</a> 11 to do the capturing in AVI format. The video and audio were coming through perfectly in the capture preview window prior to hitting the "begin capture" button. As soon I pressed this button the video became horribly choppy - almost like stop motion. The video would freeze for a couple of seconds then move a couple frames, freeze some more, etc. And the audio was doing the same. I was hoping it was just the preview and not the actual recording - but it wasn't.</p> <p>If I changed the format to MPEG everything came out fine. If I was just burning these right to DVD I wouldn't have a problem but I would like to do some editing (especially to the long wedding videos) so I would prefer everything in AVI if possible. Thinking it was a software problem I tried using <a href="http://www.videohelp.com/tools/NeroVision_Express">Nero Vision</a>, <a href="http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Windows_Movie_Maker">Windows Moviemaker</a>, and <a href="http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Virtualdub">VirtualDub</a> to capture but they all came through with the same results. So I looked towards the hardware and changed the setup. This time I tried using a Digital Camcorder as a pass through instead of the video converter. Same results with all the different software packages.</p> <p>The only thing I haven't changed is the VCR but since it plays fine while not capturing I didn't think that's where the problem is. I've done alot of research on this but haven't come up with any solutions.</p> <p>Any thoughts, suggestions, or ideas? If there's any further details I could provide to help with the solution please let me know.</p>