HELP: How to get Camcoder video to PC?

[lizium]

Ok, i just got a sony TRV57, it has a Audio DC Out and Video connectors, 8mm tapes (No USB or Firewire). Now, how do i get the movies to a PC? I am thinking i need a TIVO card for PC?

 

[new2AMD]

it didnt come with any sort of docking station? something to hook the video connectors into to output into some sort of serial connection?

 

[rudder]

Canopus ADVC-100 for good quality. But any tv in card will do.

 

[lizium]

no, all i got is a camera and those connectors thats it

 

[lizium]

Err i looked the Canopus ADVC-100 card up and its like $400... thats more than the camera, any other cheap and decent cards?

 

[new2AMD]

are the connectors your typical white red yellow rca connectors?

 

[lizium]

Ok, it says "Audio" its black RCA-jack, then "RFU-DC out" mini-jack, then "Video" RCA-yellow jack

 

[new2AMD]

looks like this model only oges into a tv or vcr. you need to then transfer it to your pc from there. you will need a tv tuner card or vid capture card.

what pc system specs do u have?

 

[Ryan]

Time to Get an AIW Radeon

 

[lizium]

I got a 1GHz P3 with 512mb ram... I dont want to go through the hassle of transfering it to tv/vcr i need to do it right to PC, so AIW Radeon will do that?

 

[nodoubts2k]

Someone gave me a sony media converter for just this purpose. It converts analog video/sound into digital, and i Plug it into my firewire port and use MovieMaker. Works like a charm, although i would prefer a card that is inside the computer so i can use my ipod and this at the same time.

 

[pulse8]

Just get a TV card.

 

[lizium]

So any TV-in card will work, right guys?

 

[new2AMD]

Originally posted by: lizium
So any TV-in card will work, right guys?

if it has the proper connections

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: lizium
So any TV-in card will work, right guys?

Get either a Leadtek or Asus and you'll be fine.

 

[hopeless879]

Or you can buy a device called a "Dazzle." It takes in RCA connections and connects to your computer through either USB or Firewire. Best Buy sells them, don't know who else does.

Also, I hope you have enough hard drive space for video editing (10-20 GBs)

 

[mugs]

You could consider exchanging the camera for a Sony Digital8 camera... it's sort of a hybrid between a regular 8mm camera and a DV camera.

 

[spacejamz]

Also, I hope you have enough hard drive space for video editing (10-20 GBs)

1 hours worth of video alone transferred to your hard drive is about 10 GB (at maximum quality)...that doesn't count the space you need to encode back to a DVD/VCD/SVCD format...If you plan to do this alot, you should get the biggest drive that you can afford.

It is recommended that you have a separate drive just for video editing to maximize your performance (or least your video files are not in the same paritition that your OS is on)...

And also, you need to be very very patient. Even the faster machines out now (P4 2.8G machines) will take about an 1.5 hours per hour of video footage on average to render your new files...this will also depend on the software app you use to do your editing...this does not include the time it actually takes you to transfer the video to your PC (1 hours worth of video = 1 hour of transfer time)....

 

[thomsbrain]

there's this thing called a video capture card. works wonders.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: spacejamz

Also, I hope you have enough hard drive space for video editing (10-20 GBs)

1 hours worth of video alone transferred to your hard drive is about 10 GB (at maximum quality)...that doesn't count the space you need to encode back to a DVD/VCD/SVCD format...If you plan to do this alot, you should get the biggest drive that you can afford.

It is recommended that you have a separate drive just for video editing to maximize your performance (or least your video files are not in the same paritition that your OS is on)...

And also, you need to be very very patient. Even the faster machines out now (P4 2.8G machines) will take about an 1.5 hours per hour of video footage on average to render your new files...this will also depend on the software app you use to do your editing...this does not include the time it actually takes you to transfer the video to your PC (1 hours worth of video = 1 hour of transfer time)....

Just for clarification, maximum quality is relative to the format he's capturing in. If he's capturing via a TV tuner card, the best he'll do is mpeg2 @ probably 8mbps which would be about 5GB an hour. If he's capturing via an analog to digital converter box, the format would be DV and that would be 13GB an hour. If he's capturing to an AVI file, it will all depend on the codec he's using, but his system probably isn't fast enough to to handle the encoding on the fly. If he were to capture an uncompressed AVI file, it'd be around 105GB an hour, but you'd need a SCSI array in order to keep that kind of throughput.