VEGAS 4.0 CAPTURE QUESTION

addu786 wrote on 10/19/2003, 12:32 AM

Hi,

It may sound silly but I cannot figure out how to capture a video in DVD or other formats instead of DV using Vegas. I mostly capture home videos to burn DVDs and do not need to store 1 hr of video using 12GB on my PC. Is it at all possible? Where do I specify these settings in the capture utility of vegas 4.0 (or vegas itself)? anybody?

thanx in advance,

addu786
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Comments

TorS wrote on 10/19/2003, 6:16 AM

Once you have captured, you cn use Vegas to render your material to a lot of different formats. Then you can delete the originals if you like.
Otherwise you will need a special graphics card that can compress your captures on the fly. But you can probably buy several large harddisks for that money.
Tor

farss wrote on 10/19/2003, 6:28 AM

Vegas is a DV editor thus you need to capture in DV, this does involve a lot of HD space although these are pretty cheap these days.

Yes there are other ways, you could use a real time mpeg2 capture card but for the price of a decent one you'd buy a lot of HDs. Also VV doesn't excel at editing mpeg2. It does it quite well but the video has to be decompressed and recompressed which is quite slow and probably results in more of a quality loss than working in DV.

Yes there are systems that edit mpeg2 natively, again for the price you could buy a lot of HDs. If all that you want to do is transfer video without editing to DVD there are other, faster ways. I've tried them and always find there's something that needs fixing before it goes to DVD so in the end there's a downside going straight from video to DVD.

DGrob wrote on 10/19/2003, 6:39 AM

Capture DV, make and burn your movie/DVD, archive your DV back out to DV tape with Capture/Print to Tape, and delete the files on your HD. Every 20 years or so you might want to refresh the stored tapes, but by then, who knows where the tech will be? DGrob