Capturing Video

[Bruce Callaway]

Hi all, I am trying to capture video for the first time by simply playing videos from a video player into a tv/video capture card then into SAW. Problem is I do not see any video images on the video viewer. Using the software that came with the tuner, I can capture video (but no sound). I have tried both PAL and NTSC settings with no luck. Any suggestions? By the way, I am using the video input on the card, not the TV input.

Thanks in advance,
Bruce

[Naturally Digital]

Bruce, is the card doing real-time mpeg-2 encoding on the video input? My guess would be you don't have the necessary directshow filter (codec) to decode whatever format the capture card is delivering to SAW.

[Bruce Callaway]

Thanks Dave, I have found a menu that allows a range of options so am working my way throught those to see what works.

[Bob L]

Bruce, SAWStudio is designed to only capture video as a DV file direct from a Firewire input. It also allows video only capture from some usb camera inputs... but there is no provision for audio sync in that mode.

You can use a DV camera as a DV converter in many cases, or you would have to buy a DV converter box to accept anaolg composite or S-Video inputs and change them to firewire.

The firewire DV capture gives you perfect audio video sync and allows for a very clean way to bring video into SS.

Otherwise... capture using the video card software and then open the file into the video viewer after it is captured.

Bob L

[antiacid]

The only way to capture video and audio in sync for me (using a seperate video and audio capture card) was using the (free downloadable) program Virtualdubsync (1.5.04) and the (free downloadable) codec Huffyuv. Virtualdubsync syncs the video and audio in a smart way and saves the data in a (huge but lossless) avi file. afterwards it can be opened by most video editing software and recompressed to burn a dvd. Don't know if this is what you want, if so pm me, I'll look up the links for you.

[Bruce Callaway]

Hey Thanks aniacid, I will give that a try. After 24 hours of frustration , SAW is the only program I have that will record the separate record track, the others will only record video.

[mako]

G'day Bruce - this might be of interest to you as well

http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/DVD2AVI.htm

cheers

mako

[Bruce Callaway]

Hi Dennis, I hope all is well at Bell. Thanks for the link. I think I have a driver problem or something similar in my system. Every time I try to capture video, load it into SAW to extract the audio, I get a different result. It worked beautifully once but I have not been able to do it again. Go figure. I have just about given up but will try the instructions on the link.

Thanks again,
Bruce