I am trying to capture video via a USB 2.0 adapter and VS8 was bundled with it.
The main problem is simply when I click in the capture function my pc crashes and only a reboot will free it up.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app but its still the same.
When I preview whats coming from my usb adapter within VS8 it like its in slow motion with no sound.
I am running XP home SP2 ,P4 2Ghz, 1/2 gig of ram, 64MB agp video card and have at least 100 gigs free on my HDD...is this up to the job?
I have tried pal/ntsc, s-video,composite, avi,mpeg etc...etc all the same
apologies if I have left out anything
thanks
Unable to capure using VS 8
Moderator: Ken Berry
Did it come with any other bundled software? Usually, this kind of device works best with it's own capture software. Video Studio or Movie Factory are often thrown into the bundle so that you can edit and make DVDs.
But that's not always the case, sometimes the Ulead software is meant to be used for capture, and in some cases it may even be tweaked to work with the particular device. (Video Studio can capture from almost any MiniDV camera... these seem to be standardized.)
If it doesn't work with the supplied software, I'd return it!
Analog capture is one of the trickiest parts of this whole tricky digital video business... Cheap capture devices make me nervous..
The ATI All-In-Wonder cards are very popular.
I have a Hauppauge card. It works great with the Hauppauge capture software, but it's MPEG only. (See comment about compressed files below.)
Pinnacle also makes some popular capture cards & devices.
If you have a desktop computer, most of the PCI capture cards include a TV tuner so you can use your compyter as "TiVo".
If you have a digital camcorder with analog inputs, you can use it as a capture device. MiniDV cameras often have a "pass-through" feature that allows you to use it as an analog-to-digital converter. Or, you can record to the camera, and then make the digital transfer as a 2nd step.
The bad news is that compressed files can be a pain to work with.* The more compressed the format, the more likely you are to have problems with it. (I had to buy a special-purpose MPEG editor, because some of my MPEG files would cause Video Studio to crash, or would make DVDs with "lip-sync" problems.)
In general, it's best to do all of your editing in AVI/DV (13GB per hour) and then compress to the final format as the last step.
* Almost all video formats use some compression. AVI/DV (from a MiniDV camera) is compressed, but it is less-compressed than MPEG and it rarely causes any trouble.
But that's not always the case, sometimes the Ulead software is meant to be used for capture, and in some cases it may even be tweaked to work with the particular device. (Video Studio can capture from almost any MiniDV camera... these seem to be standardized.)
If it doesn't work with the supplied software, I'd return it!
Analog capture is one of the trickiest parts of this whole tricky digital video business... Cheap capture devices make me nervous..
The ATI All-In-Wonder cards are very popular.
I have a Hauppauge card. It works great with the Hauppauge capture software, but it's MPEG only. (See comment about compressed files below.)
Pinnacle also makes some popular capture cards & devices.
If you have a desktop computer, most of the PCI capture cards include a TV tuner so you can use your compyter as "TiVo".
If you have a digital camcorder with analog inputs, you can use it as a capture device. MiniDV cameras often have a "pass-through" feature that allows you to use it as an analog-to-digital converter. Or, you can record to the camera, and then make the digital transfer as a 2nd step.
I believe so. The capture device documentation should list the System Requirements. A USB capture device will have a hardware MPEG encoder built-in. This lightens the load on the computer since you are sending already-compressed video. The CPU doesn't have to do any "work", and there is less data to deal with... That's the good news...I am running XP home SP2 ,P4 2Ghz, 1/2 gig of ram, 64MB agp video card and have at least 100 gigs free on my HDD...is this up to the job?
The bad news is that compressed files can be a pain to work with.* The more compressed the format, the more likely you are to have problems with it. (I had to buy a special-purpose MPEG editor, because some of my MPEG files would cause Video Studio to crash, or would make DVDs with "lip-sync" problems.)
In general, it's best to do all of your editing in AVI/DV (13GB per hour) and then compress to the final format as the last step.
* Almost all video formats use some compression. AVI/DV (from a MiniDV camera) is compressed, but it is less-compressed than MPEG and it rarely causes any trouble.
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I am afraid I have to differ slightly from my friend DVDDoug, when he said
However, that device also illustrates Doug's other point, with which I completely agree. ADSTech is notorious for protecting the proprietary nature of their hardware chip by either tweaking other software or else restricting capture to their own software. In ADSTech's case, that software is called CapWiz.
So if by chance your device is an ADSTech one, you should use CapWiz to capture and then insert the captured video into VS8 for editing.
As Doug said, though, the device probably only allows you to capture mpeg-2 or other formats which all cause some difficulties when editing. So if you are planning extensive editing, don't be surprised if problems arise sooner or later. VS8 was notorious for out of sync audio and video when editing mpeg-2, for instance, and the usual way of getting around it is to turn off SmartRender when producing a final version of your project.
In fact, not all USB capture devices have the built-in hardware encoder. Probably only a minority do, and they tend to be at the more expensive end of the that class of capture devices. A particularly good one in this regard is the ADSTech DX2 device.A USB capture device will have a hardware MPEG encoder built-in.
However, that device also illustrates Doug's other point, with which I completely agree. ADSTech is notorious for protecting the proprietary nature of their hardware chip by either tweaking other software or else restricting capture to their own software. In ADSTech's case, that software is called CapWiz.
So if by chance your device is an ADSTech one, you should use CapWiz to capture and then insert the captured video into VS8 for editing.
As Doug said, though, the device probably only allows you to capture mpeg-2 or other formats which all cause some difficulties when editing. So if you are planning extensive editing, don't be surprised if problems arise sooner or later. VS8 was notorious for out of sync audio and video when editing mpeg-2, for instance, and the usual way of getting around it is to turn off SmartRender when producing a final version of your project.
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