Capturing from a sony

mtchp · Post by **mtchp** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:31 am

I am trying to capture from a sony camcorder HDD via a USB port. The VS will not recognise the camera in order to capture from the camera. We will be using the camera to film our football games directly into the laptop in the pressbox. We need the marks to stack the video for game review. Any help out there?

Post by **Ron P.** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:47 am

Instead of capturing, just copy/paste from your camcorder onto a hard drive in your PC ? USB is not good at all for capturing. This is no different than using an external hard drive to back up your files. You simply move them there. Much faster than real time capturing too..

Once you have the video clips on the PC, fire-up VS, insert them and edit away..

Never tried recording directly to a PC using USB, just not a good enough pipe into the PC. I have done it using firewire. I'm not saying it can't be done, it can. However some setups are more elaborate than a consumer program like VS, and also the hardware is probably in the PRO's range.

One problem with video capture using USB is that there are other devices that use USB, mouse, some keyboards. These have to share that buss, and it can at any time decide that your camcorder does not need it, or as much. It will give the resource to another device, and then, there goes your video capture. VS will stop capturing, and you need to restart it. It could be that just something else, some other app on your laptop springs to life, and steals some resources, again the video buss will loose.

I would not count on capturing to the laptop, especially with what you're wanting to capture.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:04 am

The only useful thing about connecting a camcorder to a computer with a USB cable is to use the camcorder as a web cam.
Quality will be poor.

hronstve · Post by **hronstve** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:36 am

Hi,

I would like to ask if there will be any differences on the quality if we would like to use USB for capturing?Is there any device that can capture videos better than this?I was about to use this, but I have doubts if the results will turn out that good.

Thanks!

hron

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:39 am

Its a question of speed. USB is slow so it would be like driving a Ferrari down a narrow back street in a town.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:03 am

Hi

It depends on whether you mean capture.
Capture is really a process of re-coding the data during transfer to the pc. This is usually done in real time as the video has to play to capture/re-code. (VHS for instance) usually connected via a capture device.

If you have a Hard Drive or DVD type camera then you are simply copying/downloading/transferring the data to the pc. There is no recoding.
What you have is what you get, it may take some time to download but the files will be identical.