Video/Project Templates

Mike M. wrote on 4/10/2002, 6:18 PM

I'm an audio guy and I get all flustered with this video stuff------

I want to capture some video (composite) from a camcorder, edit it add some music and then output it back to video tape to play on my TV. My ATI analogue card gives me many capture options like:

Color Space/Compression: UYVY or YUY2
320x480 (default) plus a ton more ranging from 80x60 to 720x480

Question 1: Which should I use for capturing? What Vegas project template and rendering should I use for the best quality?

(I have a decent computer: Pentium 4 wt 512 ram)

Question 2: Considering the above, can I use the same thing to make a VCD? or MOV?
or will aspect ratios be goofed up?

Thanks

Comments

swarrine wrote on 4/10/2002, 11:13 PM

Hi-

As far as I know you can not capture composite video. There are 2 methods generally used to get around this. 1: Use a digital video camera to convert from composite to DV. (RCA or S-video in to firewire out) 2: Use the Canopus ADVC-100 to do the same conversion. (If you don't have a DV cam or your DV cam is unable)

HeeHee wrote on 4/11/2002, 1:36 AM

This is incorrect. You can indeed capture composite video from an analog source using the ATI capture card. I do it all the time. However, for "Best" quality, you need to capture at full res AVI uncompressed. This takes up considerable disk space (A little over 1 gig per minute). I use Vegas to compress it down with DV AVI (About 5:1 ratio). Then I delete the original.

I do not have much experience with VidCap in Vegas, but I have used it with great results. In fact it fixes an audio noise problem in XP.

The 720 x 480 (NTSC) has stumped me as far as being proper dimensions. ATI displays in 640x480 and it seams right, but the DVD standard is 720 x 480 (NTSC). I can capture video at 640x480, but I can't render it out that way with the DV AVI codec.

Maybe some else can shed some light on this area.