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Chienworks wrote on 11/24/2006, 5:25 AM
I suspect you probably can't accomplish this with SONY's VidCap as it seems to handle all firewire interfaces in parallel as one single port. Perhaps though if you used VidCap to capture one stream and something like Scenalyzer to capture the other, that might work.

As far as "try and see", you probably could have done this in the time it took to post your question. You can always "try and see" as an experiment before the event. In fact, you really should try out anything you think you might want to use long before the event so that you can be prepared with that if it works, or come up with contingency plans if it doesn't.
wolfbass wrote on 11/24/2006, 3:57 PM
Chienworks.

Thanks for your reply.

In the time it took me to set up the two cameras, connect the 2nd firewire lead, load the two tapes, and test it, then pack up everything ready for the shoot, no, it wouldn't have been quicker to test and to ask.

Surely that's what this forum is for? To ask people who have tried it, whether it's possible or not?

Looks like 21 hours of capture time.

Cheers,

Andy
rmack350 wrote on 11/24/2006, 11:16 PM
I'm pretty sure you'll need multiple computers for multiple captures but it might be possible to do it on a machine with two firewire cards.

You would be a fool to make plans that will affect your budget without actually trying things out yourself (or laying the responsibility on someone you hired and can hold to the fire).

Anyway, here's the limited amount of testing I could do in 10 minutes:

Q: Can you start two instances of Vidcap?
A: No (30 seconds)

Q: Can you open up two capture programs and capture two streams of DV25?
A: Doesn't look like it. I opened Vidcap and Windows Media Encoder and then tried to capture from the camera using WME. Total failure until I closed Vidcap. (9 min, 30 secs)

Of course this second was on a system using one firewire card and one camera as source. And WME isn't what you'd use to capture, but it can access and control a dv25 camera over firewire so it's probably a fair test.

My freelance rate is $45.00/hour with a minimum of ten hours per day. If you send me the billing info I'll get an invoice right out to you ;-)

Better yet, consider it free. I don't want my feet held to the fire on this.

Cheers!

Rob Mack
jrazz wrote on 11/24/2006, 11:27 PM
Read the last two posts

j razz
MarkWWW wrote on 11/25/2006, 4:51 AM
I don't believe you can do this with Vidcap in Vegas. But several people have reported that you can do it with Scenalyzer.

Mark
wolfbass wrote on 11/26/2006, 1:16 PM
Mark,

Thanks for the reply.

Exactly what I was looking for. A 'Yes, there has been some success with this, worth trying on YOUR machine' or a 'No, this Definately won't work'.

Rob: Do you often get your feet held to the fire? :)

Cheers All.

Andy