Easy steps to capture from my video camera.

solarman · Post by **solarman** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:16 pm

I'm new to Video Studio 9.0 and love the way it works but I'm having a heck of a problem using the capture mode. At present I'm using Roxio to capture my video via the DV port to Mpeg format, then editing it in VS 9.0.

When I try the capture I have used the DVD, DV and MPEG format and everyone gives me trouble with a constant empting of the buffer and it takes forever.

If I use Roxio it takes the exact time of the video and it saves it right to Mpeg without a waste of time.

Can anyone help me with an easy step-by-step simple solution?

Thanks,

Johnny Solar

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:44 pm

If you want to capture directly to MPEG2 format, then your only choice is to use the MPEG capture plugin. For the sake of quality, I would recommend capturing to DV AVI format first, and then transcoding separately afterwards -- transcoding on the fly is very CPU-intensive, and you will get better results if you do it as a separate step. You also cannot use 2-pass encoding if you are doing it during the capture.

Whether or not your system will be able to transcode in realtime depends largely on your processor speed and the amount of RAM that is available. If you don't have at least a 3GHz or equivalent processor, you will probably wind up with instances where the transcoding buffer fills up, causing the camera to stop until the buffer has been emptied.

solarman · Post by **solarman** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:27 am

This what I was thinking, capture in AVI and then convert to Mpeg. Now my question is how do I do this with VS 9 or do I need another program for the conversion?

Thanks again for your help.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:06 am

When you say capture in AVI, I would automatically assume you mean DV/AVI -- which is the version of AVI developed by Microsoft to emulate the quality of the digital video in your camera. Capturing it is just like transferring a file and it should place no stress on the computer. In particular, there is no transcode buffering involved. So I am a little confused when you say you tried DV as well as DVD and MPEG-2 with no success.

Normally, with Video Studio, if you choose 'AVI' as the capture format, it automatically sets itself at DV. When you capture and do your edits in the DVD format, and everything is as you like it, then you simply click on Share > Create Video File > DVD, and the program will convert it to DVD-compatible mpeg-2. You can then burn that file to disc using Share > Create Disc. Make sure, though, that you click on 'Do not convert compliant mpeg files' in the little cogwheel icon in the bottom left of the burn screen.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:35 am

Hi
From the capture page, select DV from the Format box.
Does DV remain as an option or does it revert to AVI

If you are capturing to DV-AVI, (as mentioned by Ken is like transferring a file)
The format option should be DV.
Connected to your pc via Firewire (i-link)
Capture will be about 13 Gb per hour, you should not see the transcode buffer.

Trevor

solarman · Post by **solarman** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:58 pm

Thank you Ken and Trevor you have answered my questions

I was wondering how I'd convert from AVI to Mpeg and now understand that it's after I edit it and Create Video is where it converts.

Sometimes my mind goes blank but I now see the light