Analog capture & scenes with Osprey

Spirit wrote on 6/22/2002, 8:06 AM
I have an Osprey 210 analog capture card. Until now I have been capturing video on one machine as an AVI and then editing it on a second PC with VV3.

But the capture software for the Osprey is very limited. For example, I can't grab a scene, then pause, then grab another scene etc without manually renaming the capture file so it doesn't overwrite the first take !

So I'm going to transfer the Osprey 210 to my main PC with VV3. but before I start unscrewing and fiddling (urgh I hate moving cards around...) does any know whether VV3 is definitely compatible ? The SoFo list says the Osprey 100 and 500 are OK, so I'm hoping for the best . . . .

Also - and this is a bit basic I suppose - do the VV3 capture controls allow mixed capture. By that I mean can I capture a scene, pause, capture another scene, capture a frame as a still, capture another scene etc

thanks for reading through this ramble !

Comments

Sr_C wrote on 6/22/2002, 10:23 AM
From what I have expierenced every start and stop on analog capture creates a new file. I am new to the game and would also like to know if there is some way to capture multiple scenes on one file. Almost like a capture pause. But like I said from what I have seen, you cannot. But maybe someone will be able to shed light.
SonyDennis wrote on 6/22/2002, 6:22 PM
Sr_C:

You can turn off DV scene detection if you want to capture multiple scenes to a single file. You can capture a whole tape to a single file this way.

If you timecode is continuous on the tape (you either striped the tape or were careful to overlap the scenes while shooting), you can edit the video to just the parts you want, "Save As" with media consolidation, delete the media, and recapture just the bits you used later.

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