MSP8 Capture and MPEG4 plug-in question

[kamnet]

I've been using MSP8 for awhile, but I just started using Capture to pull video from my MiniDV and D8 cameras. If I purchased the MPEG4 plug-in, would I have it available as a format to use for encoding in Capture?

[heinz-oz]

Can't answer your question because I have never done it myself or even tried. I wouldn't even try to capture to mpeg2 with your machine because it is a bit weak in the processor and RAM departments. With a hardware encoder capture card, yes, no problem. There are however, as far as I know, no hardware coder capture cards for mpeg4 yet.

Mpeg4 is such a high compression ratio that editing it becomes extremely difficult. You are better off to capture to DV-AVI, do all your editing and then render to mpeg4 output.

[cgould]

As far as I can tell , at least from the available templates/settings, the MPG4 plugin is only for iPod etc- small screen/low res. Not sure you'd want to waste your DV captures to that? Or are you intending to save to small screens?

As Heinz says, MPG4 encoding is *very* compute-intensive (and decoding to match, eg during editing/playback), so just capture in DV-AVI, edit, then render the final edited timeline video to whatever format you want.

[texbosoxfan]

you've probably received this question a thousand times, so my apologies....I just purchased the video Ipod and want to export some of my Video Studio 9 videos to it, but Iapparently I need the mp4 plug-in first......and I can't locate the plug in on the Ulead site....do I need to purchase it, or is it a free download? and where can I gind it?

thanks

[Devil]

Wrong board: this is for MSP, not VS