Dr Teeth Posted October 22, 2001 Share Posted October 22, 2001 1. DO you edit videos? what is your setup? 2. How long can i record from a DV? 3. If i have an analogic camera... what options do i have to capture it to digital video? Rebuilding My Self Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted October 22, 2001 Share Posted October 22, 2001 I edit videos all the time. Just edited 6 this past weekend that will be shown on the Experience Music Project site as part of their home recording special. Here's the setup: Panasonic PV-DV900 (ancient mini DV camera) Q Performance Systems computer (840 MHz overclocked Celeron, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive) with $50 IEEE-1394 card to connect to camera Sonic Foundry Vegas Video software (it ROCKS). That's about it. The only limitation to how much video you can record depends on your disk size. Raw, uncompressed video uses up as LOT of data - a 3 minute/45 second video took up 1.4 Gig on my hard drive. Also, lots of RAM is good, as is a fast processor. I'd be delighted to talk about this more, video is really fun and not that difficult or expensive. Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Teeth Posted October 22, 2001 Author Share Posted October 22, 2001 O already have an analogic camera that is very good. i would like something cheap like the blaster video maker of creative labs. Can i connect an analogic video camera to this device? Rebuilding My Self Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Zap Posted October 22, 2001 Share Posted October 22, 2001 Do I edit video? Oh yeah. But just for fun, though. [img]http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] I am editing one just now as a matter of fact. The last one I did (as well as the first one I did [img]http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] ) is [url=http://www.ninagoddess.com/video]here - note the red airplane [/url] I bought a card called Pinnacle DV-500 which has the advantage of BOTH a digital in (from digital camera) AND an analog in (for analog camera). It was relatively expensive though since it also has some real-time effects on it (so you dont have to pre-render your transitions for example, they come instantly). What is funny, though, that nowdays I use it mostly to capture from my (brand new) digital camera, and I actually do the editing on another computer, for the sole reason that the Pinnacle card is still sitting in an old 450 Mhz machine and the new one is a 1 Ghz machine. Sure, the 1Ggz is not as fast as the real-time effects on the pinnacle card, but these effects are only very simple (wipes and transparency) and 90% of the time you need some more "advanced" effects, and then either system have to pre-render anyway. The question for you is, what is cheapest and best - go out and buy a new DV camera and a cheap firewire card to simply get the data into the computer... OR keep your old camera and buy an advanced capture card such as my DV-500, which may cost almost as much as a new DV camera would... and you would still be stuck with an old Analog Camera!? Actually if I asked myself this question today, I'd go for the "new camera and cheap firewire card" instead. Once you have the DV data inside your computer, though, its easy. In 90% of the time you get editing software with your firewire card for free or cheap. Although this software might be limited, you can get REALLY far on it. (I once did a music video on the free "Media Studio Pro" program that came with a $50 webcam) DV data is fixed rate at 25 megabit, that is 3.5 megaBYTE per second data. 1 gigabyte is just under 5 minutes of video. BUY A LOT OF DISK [img]http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img] Win98 has a limit of 4GB as max size of one file. Win2000 does not have this limit. The AVI file format, though, has a limit of 2GB file size, but there is a special "workaround" for this, and most software today supports this workaround... so the chance is you run into the 4GB limit of Win98 before anything else. Does this answer your questions? /Z This message has been edited by Master Zap on 10-22-2001 at 10:37 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Teeth Posted October 22, 2001 Author Share Posted October 22, 2001 Well what i really meant was... How much time can you record with the camera standing alone?(my english is not so good) in a single DV cartridge? some one want to tell me if i can connect a vcr or a analog camera to the blaster video maker? [url=http://www.creativelabs.com]www.creativelabs.com[/url] Rebuilding My Self Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masternfool Posted October 22, 2001 Share Posted October 22, 2001 shooting standard DV you can get 60 minutes. But Panasonic has just come out with a 90 Minute DV Tape at standard speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsightPro Posted October 25, 2001 Share Posted October 25, 2001 I love to edit video. I currently use a system produced by Avid. The particular package that I use is the Avid Express DV. For more information, go to: [url=http://www.avid.com]www.avid.com[/url] This setup is extremely powerful and is intended to be used in the professional environment. The only bad thing is that it is a relatively expensive system to get, but the computer, monitor and interfaces to dump the video into and out of your computer come with it. For your current camera, if you don't have the DV port on your camera, you can get a A/V converter that has the analog inputs on it that interfaces to your computer through a firewire card. I'm not sure of the price range for these though. Hope this helps. --Matt "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and he'll spend all day in a boat drinking beer." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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