VV and video card

bigcreek wrote on 3/7/2003, 4:20 PM

I have been playing with the VV demo and am excited. (Previous Premiere user). I have a question about the capture process, though. (Capturing from analog). I understand that a 1394 card will work fine, but I am wondering about some of the high-end video cards (Radeon AIW 8500, 9700, etc.) Can I capture video (home movies) from this card directly into VV? If not, I assume I should use the 1394 card, but would like to know if the AIW card will then cause problems? I would like to be able to view TV on this machine as well. Thanks!

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Johnny7777 wrote on 3/7/2003, 4:31 PM

I have the ALL IN WONDER RADEON, I haven't been able to capture anything as yet from my vcr within VV4....yet. I have some techical problems to fix. But this is what you can do and that is capture the video (analog) with the ATI software that comes with the card (thre are numerous formats you can use) I use MPEG2. Then you can import the video file without a problem into VV4 and go from there. I don't have firewire as yet still debating since most of the stuff I can capture with my ATI and import anyway. Mind you the DV setting is going to be of better quality than MPEG2 compression but mind you the data rate for DV is almost double of MPEG2. So if you have a long video let's say around 2 hours better stick with mpeg2. But to get awesome quality and effects then DV is the way to go. As I said I haven't been able to capture directly into VV4 as yet because of a strange error message I'm getting vidcap40.exe error message. Just started happening I will send details to SOFO and they will told me they would look into it.

Johnny7777 wrote on 3/7/2003, 5:42 PM

Okay just fixed my problem if you get the ATI card and install the software you have to change a file name to get it to work. Look at my post on vidcap40.exe. But in a nutshell you need to change the file name in your computer from AVBI.ax to AVBI.bak. Mind you you're going to lose the close captioning but its worth it.