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Subject: Good fun....
Name: Celstk855
Date: 8/16/2002 11:56:11 AM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 63.60.228.20
In Reply to: digital video editing posted by chucky
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I've been playing around with this stuff for a few years now. Mainly with Premiere from Adobe, although MS and others reckon ULead's Media Studio Pro is the go, less bugs and faster on the render.

I use both SVHS/Composite inputs and IEEE for my files. I also have a TV tuner card.

I still believe in Hardware compression is the best. >5GHz CPU's will bring things into perspective as per good quality and quick MPEG2 rendering via software, but for the moment, HW is the way to go.

I use the Matrox G400 and Rainbow Runner Setup which will/would set you back US$200 prolly - maybe pick one up on ebay.
This captures through your SVHS or Composite input via the Zoran HW chip to MJPEG format in real time. The data rate at full quality 704x576 is 3.1MB/sec or about the equivalent of DV format (3.6MB/s) and is very good - off course the addage "shit in shit out" applies.

I have heard the ATI AIW's have problems with PRemiere, and as far as I can recall they capture to MPEG via SWare encoding. I also presume the latest will do MPEG2 capture in realtime if you have a 2GHz CPU or something - but I dare say the quality would be pretty ordinary.

Many people still capture in RAW RGB (30MB/s) just to max out the quality - but this is a wopping 130GB/hr and not my kettle of fish. Others employ a Huffy YUV codec too which halves this 30 to a more reasonable 18MB/sec without loss in quality.

I also capture and run my Panasonic DVCam via Premiere, importing and exporting as if it were another hard disk. Very snazzy tool. I've had it for over 2 years now.

Have fun and good luck....

my 2c

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