Comment posted What Is The Best Software For Recording Video Through A Capture Card? by Etron.
Actually, if you have a DV8 or Mini DV camcorder, most will allow you to set it up to PASS THROUGH the video signal, without recording it to tape. You want to use the Analog- usually the RCA cable [...]
Comment posted What Is The Best Software For Recording Video Through A Capture Card? by Etron.
Actually, if you have a DV8 or Mini DV camcorder, most will allow you to set it up to PASS THROUGH the video signal, without recording it to tape. You want to use the Analog- usually the RCA cable with Yellow, White and Red connectors and sometimes SVHS, to the camera, and Digital- firewire from the camera. This is referred to as A/D Conversion (A to D for analog to digital). Check your menus on the camcorder. Sony says A/V -> DV Out. This has to be set to ON. This will be in the VCR Menus, NOT the Camera Menus. Do not confuse this with TV settings or Display settings on some camcorders. This is useful if you have a VCR and you want to record directly to your hard drive. (VCR -> to Camcorder -> Computer). You can capture with Windows Movie maker (Free on WindowsXP after SP2) or use AMCap, a freeware program. You will need at least 1G of Ram to view as you are capturing in order to get better than draft quality results.
BUT, BUT, BUT- My Question was- STOP! Here’s why: you want to use FIREWIRE, not USB.
Firewire 400, the most popular version, although rated as slower than USB, is actually able to sustain a higher throughput rate. In other words, it can keep a higher continuous stream of data flowing with less errors, or frames dropped. USB’s speed is based on PEAK or BURST performance- not a CONTINUOUS data transfer rate. If you can spend a few dollars for a good capture/edit/authoring package under $130, try Sony Vegas Studio Platinum Pro. It supports two screen display- one for your computer monitor for the software, and one for a second monitor to watch the program content being captured, edited or played back, if your computer has two outputs. And when you are ready, it will help you move into HD, 5.1 surround sound, compose music, edit audio, author DVD’s, as well as make red book CDs! Many tutorials for Vegas Platinum Pro can easily be found on YouTube as well. For more sophisticated editing, move on up to the full version of Vegas, Adobe Premiere, or Canopus EDIUS.
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Actually, if you have a DV8 or Mini DV camcorder, most will allow you to set it up to PASS THROUGH the video signal, without recording it to tape. You want to use the Analog- usually the RCA cable with Yellow, White and Red connectors and sometimes SVHS, to the camera, and Digital- firewire from the camera. This is referred to as A/D Conversion (A to D for analog to digital). Check your menus on the camcorder. Sony says A/V -> DV Out. This has to be set to ON. This will be in the VCR Menus, NOT the Camera Menus. Do not confuse this with TV settings or Display settings on some camcorders. This is useful if you have a VCR and you want to record directly to your hard drive. (VCR -> to Camcorder -> Computer). You can capture with Windows Movie maker (Free on WindowsXP after SP2) or use AMCap, a freeware program. You will need at least 1G of Ram to view as you are capturing in order to get better than draft quality results.
BUT, BUT, BUT- My Question was- STOP! Here’s why: you want to use FIREWIRE, not USB.
Firewire 400, the most popular version, although rated as slower than USB, is actually able to sustain a higher throughput rate. In other words, it can keep a higher continuous stream of data flowing with less errors, or frames dropped. USB’s speed is based on PEAK or BURST performance- not a CONTINUOUS data transfer rate. If you can spend a few dollars for a good capture/edit/authoring package under $130, try Sony Vegas Studio Platinum Pro. It supports two screen display- one for your computer monitor for the software, and one for a second monitor to watch the program content being captured, edited or played back, if your computer has two outputs. And when you are ready, it will help you move into HD, 5.1 surround sound, compose music, edit audio, author DVD’s, as well as make red book CDs! Many tutorials for Vegas Platinum Pro can easily be found on YouTube as well. For more sophisticated editing, move on up to the full version of Vegas, Adobe Premiere, or Canopus EDIUS.
For capturing video you want Firewire as USB is too slow.
Good software would be Adobe premier pro $$$ or the cheaper one is Adobe Premier Elements.
They take a bit too learn but are both very good
I use iMovie on Mac