Screen Capture to .AVI?
04-Feb-95 02:13:35
Sb: #2577-Screen Capture to .AVI?
Fm: Dave Ebert 73150,2763
To: Timothy Liebe 73373,3347
Sure should work would be my answer, so long as your board is MCI driven would
I think. On my computer I have three video boards installed: Video Blaster SE –
for video overlays Media Visions Pro Movie Spectrum – video capture and Roctec
RocGen Pro – that ports video through a Tseng ET4000 – Genlock
(Felt like a wizzard when I figured out how to cram all they boards together
into my machine! and they all work fine with all my software. Only one small
quirk seems to be with Video Director 2.0 can't seem to acquire Picons
properly, but can work around this with Video for Windows 1.1 single frame
captures.)
When I want to do animations and\or morphs it helps to pull out the Tseng
ET4000 and swap to an Orchid Fahrenheit Vesa Local Buss SVGA board and that I
use with an external video encoder. In fact, the encoder is also connected to
the Tseng board. So depending on what the effect is I am trying to pull off
there is more than one avenue to either output or input – and after I evaluate
the results it's a matter of sellecting the best means available.
But anyway, my answer would be that the software is not a problem in this
matter. Hardware does it's thing, software makes it shine. You often get what
you pay for, ie. things work together but each has it's limits that the other
can not overcome. The most expensive video boards are meaningless if you have a
sloppy monitor, etc. Always motivated to upgrade – so long as you are moving
forward right?