#Video Director Products
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Has anyone used the Video Director hardware products? I have the Software,
Video Director 2.0 and it is great. I use it with a Sony Hi-8 and Go video VHS
and it performs very well and is quite accurate despite the fact that this is
all amateur stuff. However, I want to be able to put in titles and some
superimposition. I'd also like to be able to capture from video and make some
slides (like family). They have a family of hardware from 150 to 400$ which
seems pretty reasonable in this area. Anyone used this stuff?
Thanks in advance
I'm in the search mode for VD stuff too. The couple of users I've talked
with were NOT impressed with the Gold Disk hardware. Made by ADDA I think.
I'm asking this very question now in the WINAPC forum, section 16, where
they've just started to provide regular support. Check out 'VD 2.0 graphics
& sound' thread. Up until this week the forum was mostly filled with Gold
Disk bashing.
Quite frankly I'm not too optimistic but I'm trying to keep an open mind. I
bought a copy of VD 2.0 last week then returned it when the manual failed to
outline specific recommendations for adding just the things we're looking
for.
Hope this helps some.
-jts
Thanks for the help. I have used VD2.0 for basic editing and have been happy
for the 70.00 it cost me. I'll look elsewhere for hardware I guess. If they
bashed Gold Disk, who did they like for under 400.00. A lot of this stuff is
overly expensive for amateurs.
Mark
Well, best I can figure that's the $64,000 question. What's in the vast
waste land between VD 2.0 and ///FAST VM Lite? Gotta be something but it
looks like a roll-your-own situation. Program from here, card from there
and a little shake-and-bake. So far I haven't come across anything that
I've seen or heard about more solid than Videonic's stand-alone solutions
with the MX-1, TM2000 and Edit Suite (when it hits the market about June).
But there's just gotta be some way to overlay True Type Fonts for titling
using the PC and maybe decent edit control. BUT the Edit Suite with MX-1
will give A/B/C/D roll. That's ///FAST VM territory isn't it?
-jts
John,
I may simplify here but … re: overlay true type fonts, ie. CG. Load any
windows or dos application that supports CG fonts, tell your overlay genlock
that "white" (or whatever the background color is) is transparent, type your CG
screen, hit play on the player, record on the recorder and off you go.
-John
The application you load, won't the card dump the whole screen out to video
including the board, pull down menus, etc?
Thanks.
-jts
John,
Yes it will, therefore you will need an application that allows you to hide the
menus and you will probably want to tell the genlock that "black", the color of
the border, is the transparent color, and then make the background color of the
application that same black.
-John
John,
You have the solution. GVP Personal Suite Plus is fully integrated with True
Type font usage through Curtain Call, a fantastic overlay, titling and effects
software program.
The GVP G-Lock VGA+ card, it seems like it does a lot. According to
Videomaker's roundup of DTV this month they show it as one of the few cards
that cover all the genlock features in their listing. Including TBC. My
only significant concern right now is the ET-4000 chip it uses. While this
chip is compatible with nearly all software and hardware it is really SLOW
in Windows. Ok for DOS but way slow for Windows. Does GVP make a card with
faster video chip?
Thanks.
-jts