Re: [OT]? - Hi8 Video Capture from CamCorder.

[Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hiya Ian,
Mmm don't have a Sony to re-record through at the mo, nice idea though.

I have been looking at the the pinnacle hardware you get with the Studio
Pro suit (pci card and external connections box for the video etc.). It
appears to be bungled with the Studio software. Question being - is it
any good?

Looking at the demo's, seems a little 'Tomy's My First Video Software'
to be honest, but I guess that's just a bad 'live demo' they have on the
web.

I've seen Adobe Première (1.5 I think) which seems to have more bells,
whistles and buttons you could think of but I guess that's the pro end
of the market? Pinnacle also do the 'Liquid' software which seems to
have a few more features.

How does it work for you?

Cheers
Wayne.


ian.bird@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi
>
> I use a Sony DV camcorder and its AV in ability. Essentially I play my
Hi8
> Canon which outputs a TV signal and capture this onto the Sony. This
is now
> digitized. I then play the Sony into the PC via the normal Firewire
link
> and Pinnacle Studio 10.5 ready for editing. From there output to
whatever
> you like e.g. DVD etc.
>
> I have also moved some of my videos to DVD the same way. If longer
than an
> hour it takes a little editing in Pinnacle to stitch it back together.
>
> I have also got one of the external devices to directly encode to DVD
> format but I found this slow to set up and very hardware intensive
(Disk
> mainly). Very frustrating when it crashes too. Once it was on the PC
it was
> then sometimes too big for a single layer DVD so it was off to DVD
shrink
> etc. The quality from both methods was similar.
>
> Ian
>
>
>
>



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