Capture on quad, P4 or TV recorder ?

alltheseworlds wrote on 11/7/2008, 11:29 PM
I've got a job coming up where I'm going to be given about 12 hours of miniDV tapes to turn into a series of training videos.

Instead of using my main quadcore with Vegas8 capturing for two days, is there any reason not use my older P4 ? Should I even consider capturing straight into my TV recorder , burn a few DVDs and rip the VOB ? Or would I start getting massive image quality loss that way ?

I've never had to churn through so much capturing in one hit before so am just trying to avoid it turning into a three day hair-pulling epic.

Comments

Grazie wrote on 11/7/2008, 11:49 PM
eh . . .. As your output IS a DVD how about .. ?

1] http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=224007&source=1VHS to DVD Convertor[/link]

2] Take the miniDV output and interrupt/supplant the VHS part with this miniDV source?

My Dad has one of these and he could make simple DVD Menus with it too!

Grazie



alltheseworlds wrote on 11/8/2008, 12:37 AM
Unfortunately I have to do some heavy editing - culling 12 hours of sludge into 2 hours of training....
Grazie wrote on 11/8/2008, 12:41 AM
Ah! Righto . . . . .

Grazie
Robert W wrote on 11/8/2008, 3:53 AM
I can see no problem with using the P4. I would not use the ripping the DVD route as you will lose a lot of quality in the reductions.
Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 11/9/2008, 9:00 AM
I have managed to capture 2 video streams on my Q4, that saved a bit of time. ( you will need two FW inputs)
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/9/2008, 1:25 PM
go through the tapes & only capture what you want. Will save LOTS of HD space & time.
johnmeyer wrote on 11/9/2008, 2:12 PM
1. Capture DV AVI, not VOB. VOB will lose quality and is far tougher to edit.

2. Capture using ANY computer. I capture DV AVI on an old 450 MHz. Pentium P3, running Windows 98. You don't need any processor speed to capture DV AVI, as long as your hard drives are configured correctly (DMA).

3. Use Scenalyzer to capture. Far fewer problems and glitches.

4. If you have only need a very small percentage of the footage on each tape, you can speed the process by a HUGE amount if you use the Scenalyzer "Capture Index" feature. This feature lets you first capture each tape in FF mode. This takes about five minutes (or less). You then mark the scenes you actually want to capture in full-res mode. You don't need to mark these exactly, since you will be doing final cuts later on. Be as sloppy as you like. You then push a button and Scenalyzer goes back and captures, at normal, full-res quality, all the scenes you have marked. If you only need 5-10 minutes from a 60 minute tape, it takes five minutes to make the index, five minutes to do the marking and then 5-10 minutes to do the capture, thus saving 20-30 minutes per tape.