#AVI output to Videotape
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Thanks Vincent,
when I tell you what I did you will cry that your monitor bursts.
I saved my work (video) as AVI, but compressed it as "Video for Windows",
instead of compressing it as MJPEG for the miro card. Well well well, should I
have better read the manual first?????????????????????
Another question: I made a movie (out of an NTSC captured movie) to tape it on
tape, but with only 75% quality and rather small. It worked fine, but small and
bad quality. Now I wanted to save it with PAL resolution (640×480) and 99%
quality. Didn't work, since my PC has not enough power for that. Do you know
what would work best with my configuration? (486DX-2/66, 8MB RAM (only!, but I
will upgrade), 1 GIG SCSI-2 Conner HDD, "adobecap.file " about 300 MB, another
400 MB free. Would be great to get any rough idea as how I can configure the
quality and resolution. Thanks, marc.
Marc,
Anyway, I assume now your problem went away. <grin>
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 accurate
VCR/LD. Then, you can convert the images to an AVI file in Video Editor. I
did this many times so that I know it is doable and many others are doing this
without worrying about dropping frames, and so on. Work quite well especially
you always have an excuse to leave the machine running and go home right away.
<grin>
I like to capture in PAL because it gives me larger screen than NTSC's 320×240,
then I output it to NTSC. Work great for scene and still images. But, I think
even in PAL capturing miro board still will not give you real time capturing in
640×480. Are we using different board? So that I think you will need a frame
accurate VCR or LD to do that full screen capturing with miro board. A board
like Targa 2000 can give you this, however, it is a totally different story,
especially for the price. Actually, I feel 320×240 with 100% or 99% quality
looks quite good on TV already. It is of VHS quality which is good enough for
non-professional usage. So that you can try this setting first.
You can always do other things like remove the disk cache program (it just slow
down video capturing/playback), defrag your HD (so that the next sector of the
AVI file is always available), add a faster HD, buy a new Pentium/90 CPU and
motherboard, buy a new PC, and so on. However, the cheapest and easiest thing
to do is that you can try capturing with our Video Capture program which is
tuned for boards like miro DC1, Intel SVR Pro, and Fast MM Pro. Your current
configuration 486/66, 1G HD, and 8M RAM is better than what we tested with
these boards. We use 486/33, 512M HD, and 8M RAM machines in some testing
configurations, all went well. Let me know how you work out. But, read the
manual first. <big grin>
–Vincent Chen