A few threads back I posted a question about shooting church conferences/services and was trying to decide if I should buy a digital VTR, or go direct into Vegas, or use DV Rack, or look into capture devices like the NNovia QuickCapture A2D.
The digital VTR solution wasn't cheap, and I would still have to then capture the tape. I tried the DV Rack demo, but it couldn't record more than 1 hour without crashing, and even though they have a patch for it now, I don't think I can trust it just yet. Capturing direct into Vegas worked great but that means I need to have my laptop there.
I saw Spot's article on the QuickCapture A2D device and it looks perfect for what we want to do. We want something fairly simple where we can hook it to the (analog) output of our live switcher and capture 1-2 hours at a time. Then we can take it home, hook it up to the computer, do minimal editing and make a DVD.
Spot, I was wondering if you (or anyone else) has had any further experience with the device? The only negative I found while googling was that it breaks the recording into 2 GB chunks because it uses the FAT32 file system internally. But that should be a minimal hassle, right? I just drag the 7 or so chunks that make up an hour to the timeline back-to-back, render to MPEG2 on another drive, and it should work without problems, right?
We will be using it with both a Vegas system and FCP on a Mac. From what I read it should work fine with either... right?
The digital VTR solution wasn't cheap, and I would still have to then capture the tape. I tried the DV Rack demo, but it couldn't record more than 1 hour without crashing, and even though they have a patch for it now, I don't think I can trust it just yet. Capturing direct into Vegas worked great but that means I need to have my laptop there.
I saw Spot's article on the QuickCapture A2D device and it looks perfect for what we want to do. We want something fairly simple where we can hook it to the (analog) output of our live switcher and capture 1-2 hours at a time. Then we can take it home, hook it up to the computer, do minimal editing and make a DVD.
Spot, I was wondering if you (or anyone else) has had any further experience with the device? The only negative I found while googling was that it breaks the recording into 2 GB chunks because it uses the FAT32 file system internally. But that should be a minimal hassle, right? I just drag the 7 or so chunks that make up an hour to the timeline back-to-back, render to MPEG2 on another drive, and it should work without problems, right?
We will be using it with both a Vegas system and FCP on a Mac. From what I read it should work fine with either... right?