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| Thread ID: 51097 | 2004-11-11 09:04:00 | Video Capture Cards_Opinions please | Stumped Badly (348) | Press F1 |
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| 290665 | 2004-11-12 19:58:00 | > chill, > > Then why the big push for so long on graphics > manipulation stations having more ram than cpu? > > As in the G5? > > If its all cpu, multi cpu blade units would logically > be the way, or clusters? > > D. Some where in a linux journal, i have (and i canno find now) an add for the toys used by Pixar, or some place like that that does serious graphic manipulations. It's of no surprise that to get the CPU power needed, a few rows of rack mounted servers were used. I'd like to think that Pixar DID actually need that kind of processing power! :-) However, it would appear obvious to me that if all one wishes to do is record things in real time, without hitches, then a reasonable amount of processing power will be needed, and it's not till one wishes to SERIOUSLY fluff about with what one has captured that truckloads of RAM and processing power will be needed? I suppose it all depends on what you wish to do. If "video editing" means adding a bit of red to the sunset, not much grunt will be needed, but if one wishes to place several portions of several video clips together...... |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 290666 | 2004-11-12 22:29:00 | > Well thats wrong too BOTH are stereo, if u plug > speakers in to the audio out of the computer itself. Oh yeah you will get sound output through the left and right channels in TV mode but if you observe the waveforms - they are the same and you can definately hear the difference - especially with music videos. Go into the TV mode and try changing the audio mode on your deluxe using the MTS button on the remote... it should be stuck on Mono :D |
HadO (796) | ||
| 290667 | 2004-11-12 23:20:00 | I once did video capture, editing, and encoding on a mighty 350MHz CPU with a whopping 96MB of RAM and a manly 6GB 5400rpm hard drive. What am I getting at? That if you don't need spectacular results, you don't mind it taking a bloody long time, and you're satisfied with an output resolution that looks bad on a PC but looks damn fine on a TV - hardware isn't an issue. |
agent (30) | ||
| 290668 | 2004-11-12 23:28:00 | 320x240 is fine in TV IMO! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 290669 | 2004-11-12 23:30:00 | Ever tried playing PS2 through a capture device - looks like sh*t - it's a real eye opener to the wonders of PC Power! Even when lowering the desktop res to 640x480... no good. |
HadO (796) | ||
| 290670 | 2004-11-13 00:01:00 | > More RAM - Yes.... Faster RAM - No.... > > See, the reason you'd want more RAM is to hold it all > open for "faster-than-hdd-access". Realistically as > an end-user you will notice precious little (If any) > different between RAM speeds. What you will notice is > that its faster than your HDD. Chill, So in this/these manipulation/s ram speed is relevent to architecture, ram volume is related to how much can be held open. So, A twin cpu pIII 800 133fsb with 1 g what ever acts/performs as a 1.6 in this manipulation but as a .8 when conducting normal operation. The diferent ram speeds will only be relevent when calculated over a very long time period. quality 80 wire cabels are then a must if the board supports the transfer speed attainable. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 290671 | 2004-11-13 00:07:00 | Man, this is turning into a real head.... looking at these ones now this one (www.dvt.co.nz) this one (www.dvt.co.nz) and this one (www.dvt.co.nz) There are just so many available I'm totally lost! |
Stumped Badly (348) | ||
| 290672 | 2004-11-13 00:17:00 | go back to leadtec winfast tv2000xp as a bench mark both $ wise, and quality. work through all the blurb on the others and check ease of use, and doze intergration witch is/if important for you. I had issues with mine, but it was an early one, and some of the issues were combination related, the current versions are much better and quite easy to use, and intergrate well. Good intergration is important, as well as Knoweledge in the information place, for the commoner bench mark models. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 290673 | 2004-11-13 00:34:00 | I'm leaning toward Canopus gear even though it's a lot dearer, as it locks audio & video together when capturing I've read some of the other cards have problems with synchronising the video & audio Hell, I dunno Might just give up (Can't stand the thought of shelling out hundreds of $$ for something I'd be p****d off with if it didn't produce the results I want) |
Stumped Badly (348) | ||
| 290674 | 2004-11-13 07:44:00 | Hey Stumped Badly To add to your confusion :) here's some more info: I bought a Canopus Procoder 100 recently . Highly reccommended with regard to speed and excellent quality . I imported it directly from: http://www . bhphotovideo . com/ in New York . You'll need a credit card and they are super-strict on verifying that you, and your card, are genuine . Doing this saved me several $100 over the NZ price from Imaging Technology, whose prices are generally way over-inflated . To use an outboard box like the Procoder 100, you'll need a cheap Firewire card for your PC . Then you can Firewire it straight into your video editor, or onto your hard drive, and from there to CD or DVD . I bought this to convert my 1st generation VHS and SVHS tape collection to DVD . My advice FWIW: pay a little extra and get something good to begin with . You don't want to go to all that trouble and end up with crap . HTH :) |
braindead (1685) | ||
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