Capturing DVB-S

Afghan wrote on 3/30/2004, 5:18 AM
Hi, I use Vegas Capture instead of Ulead video studio but i tried the latter and i found it better than Vegas Video Capture. I tried using 720X dimension but vegas doesnt pick it up, instead Ulead does. I do not want to change Vegas as it is a handy tool, but Ulead carries more choice and video plugins. Can someone tell me why I cannot use 720 or even 500x dimension in vegas capture???????? also i try to make changes in vegas capture and i have to make changes everytime as it doesnt setup after i save it. Please help me out

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jetdv wrote on 3/30/2004, 5:54 AM
If you capture via firewire, you will get the full 720x480 (NTSC). Instead, it sounds like you are capturing analog. Try this: Run your analog source to a convertor such as the Canopus ADVC-100, a deck, or a DV Camera. Connect that device to the computer via firewire. Now capture the native DV stream.
RBartlett wrote on 3/30/2004, 8:46 AM
If Ulead VS captures from your DVB-S card, and the files are good when you import them into Vegas. Stick with it or do as jetdv recommends.

Irrespective of whether you have an "analogue TV card" to a DVB satellite receiver, or if your DVB-S is onboard a PC card. Expecting Vegas capture to deal with the vagaries of non-semi-pro equipment is a bit much, IMHO. (and pro+misc equipment when Vegas5 comes along to support various SDI-D1/HDCAM/HDV/DVDR sources)

Microsoft have a good video subsystem with VfW and WDM capture drivers. However DV and SDI are two of the few interfaces which, at full resolution, provide Vegas4 with a means to capture your video.

Chances are you'd like to capture in the native MPEG format and where untouched, not be forced to recompress it. Whilst DVD-Architect might play ball if you only meddle with the MPEG sector overheads, Vegas will uncompress this footage.

If you are whipping out the adverts, perhaps this is worthwhile. However you may wish to use VirtualDub for suchlike. Or the $120 WombleVCR.

I like ShowShifter, but haven't used it for DVB-S or DVB-t.

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