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slayer · Post by **slayer** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:42 pm

Ok read sticky, user manual and visited every site that even mentions video studio and am still in the dark!

Am in PAL land trying to get an analog camera (canon uc-v1000) to display video with no luck. The best i can get is occassional still frames of the video which is very distorted. Sound no problem. Have tried every possible video configuration again with no change to problem.

I am using a Belkin Hi-speed USB 2.0 dvd creator which bundled video studio 6. Computer specs are Intel 4 2.8ghz 120 gb hdd (20gb dedicated multimedia partition free for video) 512 mg ram OS is XP. Computer has 3 x USB 2 ports. Visited Belkin site and downloaded patch for XP did squat, checked for possible codecs that may help - nada. Now am sending a plea out to the ether - what do i do now?

Appreciate any assistance or advice i can get

GuyL · Post by **GuyL** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:48 pm

I may not be much help because I dont' use USB to capture video. My understanding is that capturing video via USB is not the preferred method. Please someone correct that statment if it is wrong. It may have been a USB 1.0 problem??? My understanding was the USB bus gets overloaded in a hurry which results in what you describe.

Anyway, for analog video I would recommend a capture card. I use an ATI All-in-Wonder and I can produce quality video (well the highest quality analog provides).

slayer · Post by **slayer** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:55 pm

Hey thanks for the super speedy reply

was thinking of getting rid of the USB altogether and now am definitely going to - i need an end to the nightmare!

Are there any specs for the capture card?

Cheers

Lukeyson · Post by **Lukeyson** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:29 pm

sounds like USB 1.0 problem to me, you only get about 700kb/s trans rate, when you need around 3.3mb/s for avi capturing

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:09 pm

slayer wrote:Am in PAL land trying to get an analog camera (canon uc-v1000) to display video with no luck.

I'm not sure what you are trying to do -- are you trying to capture analog video to your computer, or send a video from your computer out to your camcorder

GuyL · Post by **GuyL** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:57 pm

slayer wrote:Hey thanks for the super speedy reply

Are there any specs for the capture card?

Cheers

If you are planning on buying a separate capture card from your main video card, I would post asking those that do this what they use and how well it works for them. I say that, because I've never done it that way.

I use the All-In-Wonder card and have for a number of years. I have had 3 versions of the cards and I have not had any problems with any. It can capture in many different configurations but I mainly use MPEG 2 when capturing video not needing any editing and AVI (huffyuv codec) for video that does. I can capture as much video as my 250 GB drive can store without a problem. I am running an AMD Athlong 64 3000+ with 1 GB of RAM. My AIW is a 9800 Pro with 128 MB of RAM.

slayer · Post by **slayer** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:51 am

cheers to all for your advice.

I am trying to capture video from an analog camera to my pc so i can edit and burn to dvd. I have 3xUSB 2 ports which is the spec needed for the hardware (belkin hi-speed usb 2.0 dvd creator) but i am not getting the video past still frame every now and then.

My question now is if i use a capture card instead which one is the best to purchase if i want to capture video from analog cameras and VHS tapes - or do i have to purchase 2 separate ones? I am operating with 512 mg ram but am assuming it cant hurt to upgrade to 1gig?

Many thanks for the help

GuyL · Post by **GuyL** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:09 pm

ATI All-In-Wonder cards will do the trick but you would replace your current video card. If you are transferring commerical VHS tapes, keep in mind the ATI cards will recognize the Macrovision and will not let you do it. You will just see a still screnn....hey, is that the cause of your problems currently, maybe?

slayer · Post by **slayer** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:42 pm

you lost me with the macrovision though i'm assuming that's applicable to commercial vhs tapes only. I don't really get a still screen it's as though the image is transferring so slowly that will only display a new still shot of the video every 5 mins.

Will go to my local pc guru and get some more advice. Many, many thanks for all your help

Cheers

GuyL · Post by **GuyL** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:35 pm

Macrovision is a form of analog copy protection.

Good luck!

smsycpa · Post by **smsycpa** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:43 pm

USB capture is fine. My camera is hooked via AverMedia usb box and used s-video & the 2 sound cables, which then connects to usb & sound card. Your problem is software specific. I say that because my mf2 which is Ulead product, will detect, display & capture the video & sound. So far I could not do that with uvs9.

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:10 pm

Slayer,
Your Belkin Hi-speed USB 2.0 dvd creator (see http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductP ... _Id=144533 ) is not up to the job af capturing DVD quality video. It "Supports 30 frames per second at resolutions of 352x288 and 640x480," which is simply not adequate.

The problem is not in its interface (USB2), which has plenty of bandwidth, but in its internal implementation. It just is not made to capture DVD quality video.

I used ADS Instant DVD2 for capturing my analog video directly to Mpeg2. It works fine. There are many others.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:13 am

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I was using an ATI All In wonder 9600 Pro as the video card and analog capturing like above.
Recently switched to an NVidia 6600GT card for video (no capturing features) and purchased a "ATI Wonder Pro" pci version for capturing analog and TV input.
Performs very well.
The card lists for $79.00 and you can probably get it for $49.00.
There are various versions of the card so make sure if you go that way you get the Pro because it has the additional s-video & composite video inputs. This way you won't have to change your video card.
Can capture and watch TV with the ATI software, Ulead, Nero and many others.

Referencing your existing setup if you have anything else plugged into the usb ports (you said 3). The other devices may be affecting the performance and dragging the port(s) down to usb 1.0 speed. Or, if your using a usb hub that doesn't switch.

Hope this helps,

MD

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