Video Studio 9 SE capture issue

eclipse · Post by **eclipse** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:47 pm

I have Video Studio 9 SE, which was bundled with an ADS DVD Xpress DX2 that I purchased last year. Because the ADS unit deinterlaces in hardware, resulting in a loss of smoothness of motion, I am now trying to capture video using a Canopus ADVC 110. However, Video Studio does not show DV as an available format when the Canopus is connected. It shows AVI, but when I select AVI it reverts to MPEG. It also shows the source as "unknown." Any ideas as to why this occurs? And even though it appears to revert to MPEG, it apparently is capturing in DV/AVI, as the file sizes of the captured material consume approimately 1 GB for every 5 minutes of video. Also, an unrelated question -- for simple capturing of home movies from Hi-8 that are intended ultimately to be compressed into MPEG-2 for burning onto a DVD, should I select DV-1 or DV-2? Thanks.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:07 pm

Do either of these devices come with their own capture software? If so, I would capture with that, then simply import the clips into VS for editing.

And you say it appears the clips are being captured as DV-AVI. Right click on a clip, that will tell you the properties.

And, I would capture Type 1.

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:32 pm

The canopus unit should be connected to the pc via firewire and then any video app should be able to capture with it.
Movie maker, already installed will, but you need to select dv.avi as your capture format.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorial ... DV-AVI.htm
Windv is an excellent capture app
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/WebPages ... rammes.htm

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:11 pm

Hi

DV-Avi is about 13 Gb per hour

Uncompressed Avi is about 65 Gb per hour

I suspect you are capturing uncompressed Avi.

eclipse · Post by **eclipse** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:13 pm

The Canopus did not come with any capture software (nor does it need drivers). It is an analog to digital external capture device that outputs DV through firewire. Whether the ADS unit has capture software isn't really an issue because I do not plan to use it. I just mentioned it because the VS 9 SE software that I do have was bundled with the ADS unit. Based on the comments, I suppose I could use WinDV (or even MS Moviemaker) as the capture software, but wanted to try using VideoStudio. As noted earlier, I am trying to determine why VS doesn't show DV as an available format option, and the AVI option (which is available) reverts to MPEG a couple of seconds after selecting it, even though when I capture after this happens the resulting files are aroung 13 GB per hour of video (and thus, with reference to the last comment, apparently not uncompressed AVI).

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:26 am

When an SE version is bundled with hardware it is usually "tweaked" in some way to work with that hardware. Maybe that tweaking is what is causing the problem with the Canopus. If the resulting captured file is indeed DV-AVI then I wouldn't worry about it.

Again, right clicking on a clip will give you the properties.

eclipse · Post by **eclipse** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:33 pm

thanks. Only issue is that I don't know if it is capturing in DV-1 or DV-2. Also, does Video Studio 9 SE use the Main Concept encoder? If not, what does it use?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:15 pm

VideoStudio 9 uses the Ulead MPEG.Now encoder which I believe is a derivative of the Main Concept encoder.