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Some notes on capturing.
I have been attempting to build a editing shop for over a year with the below hardware and software and others but am still unsatisfied. A few observations. XP was totally unsatisfactory due to lockups and program aborts. Moving between hardware boxes didn't make much difference (I have a dozen or so available.) Changing to Win2000 fixed a lot of that stuff, but not all. Linux is much more stable but so far there is very little quality video editing available - certainly nothing polished like Studio 8 - so I am sticking with Windows till and if that situation changes. Yes, I know that all the pro rendering shops use Linux, but the software is homegrown by teams of programmers and I have no access to it. The AIW 9000 captures much better than the AIW 7500, a couple of Avery cards I have tried and a USB capture box that I can't remember the name of. I have a new Adaptec USB Videoh USB2 which seems to work very well but I have not used it enough yet to say. The major problem with the AIW series is the built in Macrovision detection which is a MAJOR headache. The reason for it is obviously to try to prevent the capture from DVDs and pre-recorded tapes (it doesn't) but it will also detect any less-than-perfect VHS data streams, decide that you are a pirate, and trash the input. I had to use a SIMA sync inserter to fix that problem. The Adaptec apparently doesn't have that problem - I hope. Studio 8 is the best software that I have found from a usage standpoint. Has a great and easy to use interface, but will unexplainably drop the sound at random intervals - maybe once per movie, maybe 5 times. It will also more than occasionally render an MPG that in which the sound will gradually fall behind the video. And occasionally, at the interface of an edit, insert a VERY loud metallic screech which will make you jump when it hits. Again, I have multiple hardware to try it on and it does the same thing on all of them. The Sonic MyDVD fixes most of the problems with Studio 8 but is nowhere as easy to use and Ulead is a disaster. MyDVD also will build a DVD/VCD with the sound out of sync quite often. So far I have had little luck unless I capture at the exact bit rate, resolution, etc that I want to render at and almost none at producing media of consistant quality. So far, the best results have been to save the captured and and rendered data as a MPG data file and just play it back through the TV card. Anybody having any luck with the above? Bill |
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