Analog Vid Capture -- best settings?

[Woodie]

So, I finally got around to reinstalling my vid capture card (ELSA Gloria Synergy--8MB PCI, s-vid in/out) on one of my systems. I'm having trouble w/ capture rates/settings, so I'm looking for input.

System Info:
K6-300, 80 MB RAM (SIMMS), IDE HD (OS), SCSI HD (?5400 RPM, w/ ISA adaptec controller) for vid capture, Win98, using MainActor for capture. I've also used a network server for HD space, with fair results--

Settings:
Size: 320x240
Format: YVU9-9bit
Audio: 8000Hz, 16 bit, stereo
FPS: 30

Source:
Sony Hi-8 camcorder, S-VHS cable to card, sound being captured by the sound card.
Tape: Kids/family, no hifi audio here.

Goals:
I want to capture the video so I can edit it, and put it out to either VCD or VHS tape, for sending to distant relatives.

Issues/Problems:
What size would be the best match for NTSC output for the above formats?
What about format?
What about FPS?
Prob: I'm getting a lot of frame-drops at higher settings, so I'm looking for the right combination to minimize frame-drop problems.

Next Issues:
I'm sure I'll have some issues burning it to VCD, but I'll worry about that when I get to it, and after looking at VCDhelp.com

TIA

--Woodie

 

[Woodie]

bump...any thoughts?

--Woodie

 

[Goosemaster]

It seems fine to me. Of course, you could lower the framerate (regular tv is about 27 and I do not hear anyone complaining. You could try mpeg, but I don't know how well that would look tranfered to a tape. VCDs are Mpeg so it would look identical.

 

[LethalWolfe]

I'd check out Vcdhelp because they have stuff about capturing too. But that machine is pretty far down there as far as editing any kind of video goes, so I don't know what kind of quality you'll be able to squeeze out of it.


Lethal

 

[NicColt]

>K6-300, 80 MB RAM (SIMMS),
>FPS: 30

Oly crap, gawd help you on this one, I had trouble with my old K6-450. Even my Duron 900 with 128 megs of ram was bearable. 30 FPS I don't think so try 15 at best.

>Format: YVU9-9bit

can you not capture to divx or mpeg instead ?

>Audio: 8000Hz, 16 bit, stereo

audio won't matter capture at 44Hz

 

[Woodie]

Hey, I did upgrade this system (from a P-120)

I'll try dropping the frame-rates...I tried not to use the mpeg1, since it apeared to get even worse (CPU cycles doing compression??)
I was going to do capture on my server, w/ 512 and dual PPros, but the card doesn't have any capture software in the drivers for W2K, and I really didn't want to rebuild the server as NT. I guess I might have to go and do a real upgrade....

--Woodie