Video Capture? NEED ANSWER QUICK!

the_learninator wrote on 2/1/2004, 2:54 PM
how do we adjust the capture bandwidth and pixel size? I got 3 hours of video to capture and about 38 gigs of free space (collectively) from my 3 internal HD's but it would be so much easier just to lower the quality so it wouldn't take up so much space?


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Anyone have any tips & tricks on video capturing.

Comments

Erk wrote on 2/1/2004, 3:06 PM
What kind of capure card do you have? If you have a firewire card, I don't think there's any way to change the quality of the DV stream (technically, its not really capturing; firewire is just a straight file transfer).

I think you would need look into other kinds of capture cards, like an ATI or something that can capture at different resolutions or something.

But I would really recommend just getting an additional or bigger hard drive, since they are pretty cheap these days. And, you dont' want lessen the quality of the video you've shot.

Greg
Fleshpainter wrote on 2/1/2004, 3:15 PM
Hack & butcher method: capture 15 minutes, render as something smaller, burn on CD, delete file off HD, repeat until finished. Then load the CD's back in. Totally slash-n-burn but if you need it tonight...
PeterWright wrote on 2/1/2004, 4:03 PM
38 Gigs is almost enough for 3 hours, so if there are a few passages of video you definitely won't be using, leave them out of the capture.
the_learninator wrote on 2/1/2004, 4:21 PM
Yea all three of your ideas are great. I have an ATI firewire card. The video is the clearest I have ever seen so I probably don't want to lower it. That would suck when it comes to burn it to a dvd.

The smartest plan would be for me to just buy a big 120GB HD and be done with it but I don't have any money and am trying to get this project done ASAP. I did your plan Pater. I didn't use the crap I didn't want I was being picky and managed to get the 1st tape down to 8.35GB now on to tape 2.

I have another interesting topic that I am going to post.
Fleshpainter wrote on 2/1/2004, 4:25 PM
That would be "pre-editing."
filmy wrote on 2/1/2004, 4:33 PM
It would be "logging" and "printing circled takes".
:)