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The Difficulty in Capturing Woes

  • 31-03-2004 5:32pm
    #1
    daire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭


    I have a Pinnacle capture card PCI AV/DV. When I capture DV through Premeire it works perfectly, perfect sound and video. When I try and capture Analogue through the supplied Pinnacle Studio 9 (Premiere gives me no analogue capture option) it won't capture it at DV quality without constantly dropping thousands of frames. It will capture it at a lower quality but not with audio.

    I've worked through the troubleshoot but no joy. With a gig of RAM, 1.92GHz cpu and 7200rpm HDs surely this shouldn't be the case?

    Can I use a different capturing software with this card? What's the best? I'm sure the pinnacle software isn't up to scratch. I simply want to copy my old Sony Hi-8 footage and put it onto DVD. Every capture result so far looks worse than the original. Frustration of the highest order, please help...


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  • #2
    Tenshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭Tenshot


    What operating system are you using? Have you checked for updated drivers on the Pinnacle website?

    If you can find someone with a Digital-8 Sony, I think it will let you play back an Analogue Hi-8 tape and convert it to Firewire on the fly, for direct input into Premiere (or Pinnacle 9 for that matter; I've never had any problems capturing DV video directly into it).

    Another option is to get a good quality Mini-DV camera with analogue video-in capability, and feed your Hi-8 camera into that.

    If you have a lot of stuff to convert, you might find it worth investing in a Canopus ADVC100 - standalone analogue video to DV conversion box with lots of nice features (about EU300 though).


  • #3
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    u could try using virtual dub, ive found this to give the best results, also if ur getting alot of dropped froms u should defrag ur hdd


  • #4
    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    Originally posted by Tenshot
    If you can find someone with a Digital-8 Sony, I think it will let you play back an Analogue Hi-8 tape and convert it to Firewire on the fly
    I've got a Digital-8 Sony cam and it can't read Hi-8's, which is a pitty because I've got some great stuff of New York on there :(
    Interesting though, I didn't know there was any compatability there... must ask my bro if his cam can output them.


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