Yes I did do the "capture native mpeg" thing for a while, but found it to work sometimes and not other times. Why do you think it won't allow capture direct to VS?
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Dvico (Fusion) TV card
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I really can't answer that one I'm sorry. VS has never recognized my card properly in any version, and since I use the Dvico solely for capturing HDTV (which works extremely well using the method I described), I've never really played around with it. Both VS and the Fusion software would be fairly resource hungry though, so for the Fusion software to process the signal and then for VS to capture it may be asking too much of your system. This is pure speculation though, like I said I've never really played around with it.
VideoReDo has a trial version I'm pretty sure, if you google it it'll turn up quick enough. Download that and give it a try with a .ts file captured with the Fusion software. If you've been using the fusion converter you'll be amazed at the speed. I always set the output to 'MPEG Program Stream', then in the options set to 'Aspect ratio: No Change, Bit Rate: 8Mbps, Max GOP Length: 15' (or if you're in NTSC land set the GOP to eighteen). I've never had a problem with these files in 10+ and only minor teething problems with VS8 (see below)
If you stick with 8, do apply the patches, in particular the burning patch which from memory is on a different page to the rest of the VS8 ones. VS8 had some chronic audio sync issues which the patches may or may not fix. The burning patch solved these problems for me, but many others still have trouble with that particular version.
Once I got it working, VS8 performed pretty well, but VS10+ has so much more added functionality (multiple overlays, Dolby Digital 5.1, better menu creation etc). If you are considering an upgrade, I'd definitely say download the trial of that and give it a go too, although the trial version won't have Dolby support for licensing reasons.
peace.
VideoReDo has a trial version I'm pretty sure, if you google it it'll turn up quick enough. Download that and give it a try with a .ts file captured with the Fusion software. If you've been using the fusion converter you'll be amazed at the speed. I always set the output to 'MPEG Program Stream', then in the options set to 'Aspect ratio: No Change, Bit Rate: 8Mbps, Max GOP Length: 15' (or if you're in NTSC land set the GOP to eighteen). I've never had a problem with these files in 10+ and only minor teething problems with VS8 (see below)
If you stick with 8, do apply the patches, in particular the burning patch which from memory is on a different page to the rest of the VS8 ones. VS8 had some chronic audio sync issues which the patches may or may not fix. The burning patch solved these problems for me, but many others still have trouble with that particular version.
Once I got it working, VS8 performed pretty well, but VS10+ has so much more added functionality (multiple overlays, Dolby Digital 5.1, better menu creation etc). If you are considering an upgrade, I'd definitely say download the trial of that and give it a go too, although the trial version won't have Dolby support for licensing reasons.
peace.
As I posted before, to edit video captured with a Dvico HDTV the file has to be converted before any of Ulead products can use the file.
You can use the following to convert the files to a useable format.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~balazer/HDTVtoMPEG2/
http://www.womble.com/
There is a conversion program that comes with the Dvico card, however it is very slow compared to the programs listed above.
HDTVtoMPEG2 is very fast and can auto cut commercials and is free.
You can use the following to convert the files to a useable format.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~balazer/HDTVtoMPEG2/
http://www.womble.com/
There is a conversion program that comes with the Dvico card, however it is very slow compared to the programs listed above.
HDTVtoMPEG2 is very fast and can auto cut commercials and is free.