Capturing Analog Video as MPEG instead of AVI

arthur-perkins wrote on 8/27/2003, 2:07 PM
Hi,

Does anyone know how to set up Vegas 4.0 to capture incoming analog video/audio as mpeg2 instead of avi? The manual is confusing in this respect because it doesn't give a step by step process and the information is scattered throughout the manual.

If this is possible, please let me know how to do it as I hate having to capture to avi, save it, then render it as mpeg2.

I am using the Canopus ADVC-1394 pci card and it's companion front bay on a Pentium 3 600mhz pc with 768 megs of ram.

thanks,

Arthur

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 8/27/2003, 2:51 PM
This can't be done in VidCap. Sorry.

Even if VidCap offered the option, you'd probably need a much faster computer, probably along the lines of a 2.4GHz P4 or better, in order to get real-time MPEG conversion.
beerandchips wrote on 8/28/2003, 8:23 AM
Get a realtime mpeg capture card. they come in all price ranges. Canopus has one.
RBartlett wrote on 8/28/2003, 11:03 AM
The US$60 LeadTek WinTV2000XP (there is a newer model, but the drivers may not be so pukka) can capture MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 (using its own capture interface, which I guess in Vegas you could try pointing to in the capture-program-choice dialogue box in preferences).
I don't bother myself as PICvideo MJPEG from SVIDEO at 4:2:2 is my preference or I'd go DV-in if I can suffer the lower quality.

720x480 NTSC and 720x576 PAL are possible. MPEG-2 upto 15Mbps (as I recall, it might have been 9Mbps). It uses the Ligos realtime MPEG-2 encoder which is passable and would separately cost a little more than the LeadTek hardware suite!

Editing IBP MPEG-2 is bad news. Only do it when you have to, IMHO (like HDV or DVB-feeds).

MedioStream neoDVDplus also captures MPEG-2 video into VOB files quite cheaply. You'd still need a DV or WDM-analogue capture card.

Hardware encoders cost a lot more but unless you pay over $1000, you don't get much more than the software coders. A PIII 600 is probably minimum spec with a PIV 1.6 and fast/dual-channel memory for really nailing up a true representation of the higher bitrates.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 8/28/2003, 11:08 AM
The ATI All In Wonder cards do mpeg-1/2 encoding. They have pre-set's for VCD, SVCD, DVD, and a while bunch of others. I used an Optibase Half-D1 encoder at work, but we got rid of it because we use software render from Premiere for most all mpeg conversions. With the Optibase Half-D1 encoder you an use a computer as slow as a Pentium 200 MMX (the one we used at work). The ATI's will probley need a p3-667 or above. Anything with a 133+ bus speed will be best.

The ATI AIW 7500 is only about $60-90 bucks. not bad for that!