Hi, I'm new to this forum!
I've been working with VideoStudio 7 SE Basic for well over a week now, and some things keep bugging me, most of all because I can't find the answers in any of the tutorials / manuals / FAQ's / forums I've been looking at...
1) Having played with multiple video types (mostly MPG / AVI) to get a grasp of video, I've decided to stick with AVI in DV quality. But when I select this (while capturing from A/V) it gobbles my harddrive at more then 60 GB/h! I'm looking at a 5 second clip that is 95 MB in size... I've fiddled with compression on the output side - but then all files end up taking _exactly_ 10.241 kB regardless of their length... weird!
- How can I get the DV AVI speed down to the usual 13 GB/h?
2) I've got the "VideoStudio 7 SE Basic" with my new system - but I can't find out what is "basic" about this edition, nor what the SE stands for. So I've got no idea if the stuff that I can't get to work is simply a matter of tuning and/or codecs or that it might just not be supported, so here we go:
- Burning to DVD: Under "Share" the "Create Disc" is always greayed out, no matter what I'm working on. Any idea?
- When I select a video codec in the capture menu, the compression codecs loses the settings I've made before. It always defaults to 50% quality, does it even support these codecs?
- Should I upgrade to another version of VideoStudio for capturing (analog) video and burning it to DVD? Or should I look for different software all together?
Cheers, and many thanks for sticking in there all through here,
Vis
60 GB/h AVI file?
Moderator: Ken Berry
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THoff
Uncompressed AVI is ~60GB/hour, while DV AVI is ~13GB/hour. I usually work with DV AVI because that's what my video capture device outputs, but when capturing from a video card with VIVO, I use the lossless Huffyuv codec.
There are multiple SE versions of Ulead products, each has a reduced feature set -- they are intended for OEM sales to be bundled with hardware. If the Create Disk option is greyed, then the manufacturer of the hardware device kept costs down by not licensing that feature. Ulead will allow you to upgrade to the full version of UVS8 at a reduced cost.
The compression setting will only stick for codecs that support adjustable compression settings. The Huffyuv codec mentioned earlier for instance ignores this setting.
There are multiple SE versions of Ulead products, each has a reduced feature set -- they are intended for OEM sales to be bundled with hardware. If the Create Disk option is greyed, then the manufacturer of the hardware device kept costs down by not licensing that feature. Ulead will allow you to upgrade to the full version of UVS8 at a reduced cost.
The compression setting will only stick for codecs that support adjustable compression settings. The Huffyuv codec mentioned earlier for instance ignores this setting.