Help Please - Video Capture from Home Videos.

[RobertNash]

Hi,

I made some home videos of my childrens birthdays and now want to burn them to DVD.

The videos were capture in analogue on a Samsumng VP-W70U 8mm Pal Camcorder.

My systems consists of a video capture card MSI FX5700 ultra VIVO and VS9.

Unfortunately VS9 / the FX5700 thinks intermintanly that the home video is copyright protected (which it isn't). Thus my captured videos have white rectangles in the middle of most of the important footage.

The video camera is connected to the video card by composite.

Does anyone know how to get around this issue?
Is their another video capture card that I can disable the macrovision feature for video capture?

Is the a composite video filter that will correct the issue?

Thanks in advance,

Robert

[ruggy1]

How on earth can you get Macrovision on a home movie!!

Macrovision on a VHS tape is hard to remove unless you have a very old VCR or use a Canopus ADVC-100 or equivalent. Good luck!

[RobertNash]

It isn't on the home movie. The damn video card thinks the sync signal has macrovision for some reason.

I can record it on to VHS fine it just when I connect the camcorder to the capture card things go a bit screwy.

Thanks,

Rob

[GeorgeW]

do you have the proper format selected based on your source video? In other words, if your source video is NTSC, then make sure you are capturing NTSC (and not PAL). Likewise the other way around...

[RobertNash]

Well, I'm a bit confused. I had the capture mode set to default DVD, but the video is on 8mm PAL.

So I am unsure what to have has capture resolution set to. I though the DVD mode was for the final source but maybe not.

I resolve the issue with Macrovision by downgrading the WDM driver to 1.081. It seems the later drivers have less tolerance on sync signals.

The other issue I have now is that I get a few garbled lines on the bottom of the captured video. Which I think is down to the capture settings not matching the analogue input.

Thanks,

Robert

[tonyl33]

If you can record them in VHS why bother with the camcorder - use a VHS video recorder to connect to the capture card using composite.

[RobertNash]

Sorry I what I meant to say was I can record them fine on my vhs video recorder through the RCA inputs. I do not have a VHS camcorder.

Anyone recommend value for money 8mm Camcorder with Firewire (DV)?

Thanks,

Robert Nash

[DALE S]

QUITE BY ACCIDENT I RAN ACROSS A STAND ALONE DVD BURNER THAT LETS ME HOOK MY ANALOG CAMCORDER(OR VHS PLAYER) DIRECTLY TO THE BURNER AND CONVERT THE ANALOG TO DVD (IT MAKE THEM .VOB FILES ) I CAN PUT THIS DVD INTO MY COMPUTER AND IMPORT IT IN TO VIDEOSTUDIO 9 AND DO THE EDITING . THE QUALLITY IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE CAPTURE CARD THAT I DON'T USE THE CARD ANYMORE . MY KIDS GOT THIS UNIT , CYBERHOME DVD RECORDER , OFF THE SHOPPING NETWORK FOR MY BIRTHDAY . SONY MAKES ONE AS DO SEVERAL OTHER COMPANYS . I HAVE ONLY BEEN AT THIS A COUPLE OF WEEKS BUT HAVE COMPLETED SEVERAL HOURS OF EDITED VIDEO . HOPE THIS HELPS .
'DALE SANDBERG

[erock1]

QUITE BY ACCIDENT I RAN ACROSS A STAND ALONE DVD BURNER THAT LETS ME HOOK MY ANALOG CAMCORDER(OR VHS PLAYER) DIRECTLY TO THE BURNER AND CONVERT THE ANALOG TO DVD (IT MAKE THEM .VOB FILES ) I CAN PUT THIS DVD INTO MY COMPUTER AND IMPORT IT IN TO VIDEOSTUDIO 9 AND DO THE EDITING . THE QUALLITY IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE CAPTURE CARD THAT I DON'T USE THE CARD ANYMORE . MY KIDS GOT THIS UNIT , CYBERHOME DVD RECORDER , OFF THE SHOPPING NETWORK FOR MY BIRTHDAY . SONY MAKES ONE AS DO SEVERAL OTHER COMPANYS . I HAVE ONLY BEEN AT THIS A COUPLE OF WEEKS BUT HAVE COMPLETED SEVERAL HOURS OF EDITED VIDEO . HOPE THIS HELPS .
'DALE SANDBERG

Dale, take off your Caps Lock so you'll stop shouting