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Marc, Anyway, I assume now your problem went away. Not much you can do to do that capturing better using miro board. One way to do that full screen capturing with best quality using 386/486 machine is to capture the video frame by frame into an image sequence from frame…
AVI output to Videotape
Message #2147
Marc, Anyway, I assume now your problem went away. Not much you can do to do that capturing better using miro board. One way to do that full screen capturing with best quality using 386/486 machine is to capture the video frame by frame into an image sequence from frame…
I think you should check out these two cards: Fast Movie Machine Pro and miro DC1 TV. Both can capture in 30fps 320×240 (NTSC) and output to tape directly from its output port. miro's board is ideal for video to tape job because it includes S-Video in/out part and with…
AVI output to Videotape
Message #2118
Marc, Glad that you like MediaStudio. Frankly, I don't know what went wrong in your configuration. I just connect the S-Video or Composite output with the TV or VCR's S-Video or Composite input, I didn't do anything perculiar. Did you got the latest driver from miro and latest driver from…
#2018-
MIRO DC1-TV
Message #2085
CS>> The DC1 captures at a max resolution of 320 x 240 or there abouts. There is a trick: try capture it in PAL which will give you bigger screen. –Vincent Chen
Ben, Cool down. No need to go that far. Think about it, this is really quite funny in fact. All right, now you got the 'most bang for the buck' award from me because you said so. I believe you. Then? Good Luck. If I have a chance later on,…
Chris, Our MKT dept will send some info to you. –Vincent Chen
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#morphing package
Message #2046
BB>> WinImages morphing capabilities are far more powerful than Morph Studio. Ben, if I were you, I would not say that kind of things. However, you have your product to sell, I can understand that. I feel the end user who ask such question will get this kind of response.…
#2012-
Miro DC1 tv
Message #2045
Arnold, Can you play it using Media Player (by double clicking the file in File Manager)? Does other programs open it OK? Normally, that gray-out means it can't recoganize it as a valid AVI file. If it found valid info, it will display the first frame and allow you to…
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AVI output to Videotape
Message #2044
You should be able to directly output from it by connecting its video out to recorder's video in. I did. Unless you have a different model… I believe miro also has a forum here. Go bug them. –Vincent Chen
Dave, Why not just tell him that we give him "most bang for the bucks" in Morph Studio. –Vincent Chen
Board included Adobe Premiere 1.1 as well as Video Studio by U-Lead. >> Sometimes I would wish they could bundle our more recent and powerful software, Media Studio. It has new features, totally re-written Video Editor and Audio Editor, and many more modules (like morphing) in the same box. Video…
Larry, I think we're talking different things. Your definition of quality is measured by your own eyes. Video signal provides the full bandwidth (the framework) but your work may not take advantage of it (the video). Just like I can do an all B/W movie on a color TV and…
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miroVideo and Premiere
Message #1869
DV>> Hey, you can't have all the fun. By the way, thanks for the list you sent. Yeah.Yeah.Yeah. Feel better now? Welcome on boat. BTW, I finally is getting a personal account here. So that I don't have to worry about losing mails and so on. I'll skip to use…
Michael, Surely it has many more things to offer, Video Editor and Audio Editor are just 2 out of 10+ modules inside the package. For English version, I think you can get an upgrade price around US$149 or lower (depends on which package that you own) directly from our US…
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miroVideo and Premiere
Message #1795
Roger, OK, I'll ask our mkt dept. Talk to you later… –Vincent Chen
That's correct. Also, for your information, some video capture boards, like miro DC1, also include an encoder chip inside. So that you don't need to buy another Genlock to output video. –Vincent Chen
Hi, Dave. Glad to have you around. –Vincent Chen
John, Anytime. –Vincent Chen
#Upgrade to MediaStudio
Message #1709
Hi, My colleague also used this account, so that I lost your mail and he has passed your words to me. I hope I didn't make any mistake in identify user id. If this mail is not from you, please just ignore it. Yes, there is an upgrade version of…
Chris, I have to tell you that is really simple and easy. Take our product, Media Studio's Video Editor, as an example: 0. open the program and insert the CD-ROM which has the video clips 1. place these clips (the pointers of them, in fact) into timeline, 2. drag and…
When outputting to tape do you see a difference between composite & s-video? VC>> To my eyes, no. I've captured/output from/to several VHS and S-VHS recorders (both composite and S-video), from a LCD (s-video and composite), LD (composite only), and several Hi-8 (s-video and composite). Could I capture using composite,…
FL>> Yes thanx we will try this Drivers! Thanks to the original poster, John Dolan. FL>> Happy New Year to You, Thanks but already celebrated it. Too bad to go back to work, so many things to do… I'm looking forward to the arrival of Chinese New Year. Yeah… FL>>…
GR>> I am looking for software that will edit video; not just stop and start a tape, but fade in-fade out etc. Depends on what you're talking about, the off-line editing to cut, edit, add titling, do effects, do transitions, and so on are here right now. But you also…
I got Video Studio 1.1a and iPhoto Plus 1.0 with the board. I have'nt used them much but so far they are great. >> Glad you like them. As a side note, you'll like Media Studio 1.0 even better. It has Video Studio 2.0 plus 8 more program modules and…
Very good news and thanks. Frank, you may want to try this. –Vincent Chen
MA>> I currently own a dc1tv card and your software. I have'nt used it much yet though. Hope you will like it. May I ask which our product they bundle with and what version? MA>> My question is what resolution and frame rate are you capturing for your demonstrations. I…
Thank. Call Softline, they are good guys and know our products very well. Happy New Year! –Vincent Chen
FL>> Thank you very much for your latest response, but we use diamond 64 stealth graphic boards, nevertheless we will try to change DMA/IRQ settings to find out wether there is a better result! Our marketing manager, Stephen Taylor (Internet: STaylor%Ulead@mcimail.com), has setup up 4 Pentium/90 and several 486 machines…
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THUNDERVISION?
Message #1113
DM>> The Targa 2000 uses MJPEG which has variable compression ratios but does not record directly to disk. You have to have a separate fast disk subsystem for this (I have the Buslogic EISA SCSI-2 controller). Thanks for the correction. I stand corrected. DM>> One great thing about Cineworks that…
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THUNDERVISION?
Message #1112
Your explanation about AV drives are correct. Thanks for the info. In short, these drives use a smarter algorithm in moving the R/W heads.
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MediaStudio
Message #1111
Do you know Softlines AG? They are our distributor in Germany. There are also a few review articles in DOS International and other mag about MediaStudio these months. –Vincent Chen
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MIRO DC1-TV
Message #1108
Hi, Frank. A few more words: We have encountered several problems in using miro DC1 drivers, but we changed our program's logic to bypass them. For example, when captured a frame, the byte count returned by their driver is 1 byte less than actually should fill. There are other annoying…
Marc, Basically, from user's view, they are the fastest and most expensive hard disks in PC world. Good thing is that they will have an AV label on them. Details that I don't know, I believe they need to do some tricks or skip the checkings to maintain the sustain…
Thank you for taking your time to review our product. Happy Holidays.
Hi, Adam. I think there is a Sony VisCA interface so that you can send commands in PC Windows software to directly control the VCR connected to your PC through an RS-232c line/port. However, your camcorder need to support that as well to make it work. –Vincent Chen
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#THUNDERVISION?
Message #903
A visitor (he is making a similar board but has not success yet) came to our company, while chatting, he told us that this board is in that pre-release status for some months. So, figure it out by yourself. BTW, a fast capture board only solve less than half of…
MK>> Is it yet possible to capture video and edit it with a desktop system and output with little or no loss in picture or sound quality at a reasonable price (i.e. less than $3000 added to a high power PC)? Sure. Right now, there are a lot of them…
#MediaStudio
Message #901
I think our product, MediaStudio, can help. However, it is for off-line editing. The following is what I copied from our product brief: ——————————————————————— MediaStudio: The Complete One Stop Multimedia Solution Powerful video capturing and editing. Capture video from a variety of external sources such as VCRs, laser discs, camcorders,…
Hi, We got the similar equipments like you have: We bought AST PCs all with Pentium/90, 512K cache, 32M DRAM, 1.7G Micropolis AV drive, ATI Mach-64 2M display card, PCI Adaptec SCSI-II host adapter, and a miro DC1 capture board. Our sales people use our own software and connect DC1…
#Hello everyone!
Message #899
Your review lists look interesting. Do you have chance to review our software product, MediaStudio?
#Animation Player
Message #53665
I have got a copy of your book "Autodesk Animation Player for Windows" dated December 1991, part no. AAPWCPM-01. It sure don't look like the most up-to-date one to me. Could you please tell me how can I get the newest copy of this book? Also, I need to find…
Animation player
Message #53664
I have a copy of your book "Autodesk Animation Player for Windows" Part No. AAPWCPM-01. It's dated December 1991. It sure don't sound like the newest one. Could you please tell me if this is the most up to date one? How can I get the newest one if it's…