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Wolfen
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Minnesota
Insane since: Jan 2001

IP logged posted posted 01-03-2002 18:32 Edit Quote

I am looking to record some video, converting it from analog to DVD format. I have used Dazzle with only the s-video cable and audio inputs... the Dazzle Device does not have 1394 Firewire... and I am having glitches in the video and audio galore. is there any other way i can go about converting the video from analog to a decent DVD fromat? This is going from a 3-5 yr old camcorder, again no ilink or firewire on the cam. I was thinking of using pinnacle DV200 with adobe premire 6.0. is this a good way to go, or do you guys have anyother suggestions?

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GRUMBLE
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Omicron Persei 8
Insane since: Oct 2000

IP logged posted posted 01-03-2002 18:54 Edit Quote

what kind of DVD format are you talking about?
DVD is MPEG2 codec and Dolby Sound.

did you already get the video on your computer? (with the dazzle?)

Wolfen
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Minnesota
Insane since: Jan 2001

IP logged posted posted 01-04-2002 00:17 Edit Quote

MPEG2 format. I did have the video on my computer when I took it off the camcoreder thru dazzle, but there was a lot of skips and pops in the video, glitches in the format.

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Slime
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Massachusetts, USA
Insane since: Mar 2000

IP logged posted posted 01-04-2002 03:55 Edit Quote

My school uses Dazzle, it's completely horrible. Never had a single good capture with it. If my final project this semester had relied on good audio, I would have failed. Return it if you can get your money back, and buy a firewire card or something.

Unless, of course, you know more about this than I do (which is very probable), and think it's not Dazzle itself that's the problem.

JKMabry
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: out of a sleepy funk
Insane since: Aug 2000

IP logged posted posted 01-04-2002 04:07 Edit Quote

you may have system speed problems, sounds like you're dropping frames. Like Slime said there... I've never heard a good thing about Dazzle, and only recently heard of it, all bad.

If you can use the Pinnacle card you'll do better I bet and it's drivers and additional software may have the codecs you're after as well as the DVD authorware. You do realize that the *quality* will be no better than what your original tape is don't you? No magic to compressing it to MPEG2.

This is assuming that your system is fast enough and capable of sustaining 3-6MB per second transfer from card to hardrive. Minimum hardrive speed of 7200RPM...

Jason

rhun
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Insane since: Nov 2001

IP logged posted posted 01-04-2002 04:39 Edit Quote

To praise the Pinnacle: I have the DV200 and a Sony Digital Handycam. Excellent quality video! Yeah, look at your RAM and processor speed, and make sure you resolve any hardware conflicts you may have, just in case. Make sure you got nothing else running when you're doing video capture and your vido card may make a big difference. I have the Radeon 64MB DDR card and it captures excellent live footage by itself, with just the s-video connection. You may be capturing just fine, but perhaps your video card/computer can't handle the playback.

"The key to discovery lies not in mathematics, but in imagination."



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