LEADTEK WINFAST "DELUXE" TV2000XP for video editing??

[Trevelyan]

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=14-122-132&DEPA=1

I was wondering if this card will work with a video project I'm doing for school.

I need to be able to capture video at 720X480 with no dropped frames, and compress it to a decent size (IE 1minute = 200mb at most).

So is this card a good pick? I had the ATI all in wonder 128 but it was too slow... I couldn't capture an AVI file with a decent codec without a huge loss in frames.

 

[Spicedaddy]

Wether you get dropped frames depends on your CPU and hard drive also, not just the capture card... But yes, you can capture in 720x480 with that card.

You were probably getting dropped frames because your CPU couldn't compress fast enough, so getting another card won't change that. What codec were you using?


And DVD video is ~75MB for a minute... (and that's the maximum)

 

[Trevelyan]

Originally posted by: Spicedaddy
Wether you get dropped frames depends on your CPU and hard drive also, not just the capture card... But yes, you can capture in 720x480 with that card. You were probably getting dropped frames because your CPU couldn't compress fast enough, so getting another card won't change that. What codec were you using? And DVD video is ~75MB for a minute... (and that's the maximum)

Yeah, but I have a 2000XP processor and an 80GB western digital 8mb cache hard drive, and 512mb of ddr ram. so I figure it's gotta be the capture card that's limiting me.

I tried a whole lot of different codecs... Indeo, divx, cinepak.... uncompressed was the only one I could capture w/o a whole lot of lost frames. I could also capture MPGs pretty good... but if I tried to edit with them Premiere and After effects would crash a lot...

 

[joemamma]

do you "tune" your computer before capping? defrag...cap to a separate drive..have dma turned on..reboot...turn off unnecessary programs? also how is the quality of the source you're capping from? that is a huge factor

also when you say dropped frames list a percentage please...huge loss is very relative... specifically if you're dropping like 60 frames out of a 30 min cap...60 frames seems large but that's like .1% dropped overall...nothing

if you want quality you're going to have to take the time to do it...compressing straight to divx will take a lot of horsepower and probably why you're dropping frames even with your processor speed...of course capping straight to mpeg will make it difficult to play around with....i would suggest capping uncompressed or at the least compressed (huffyvu, mjpeg)to ensure you have the richest capture possible before messing around and editing it

 

[Pauli]

Turn off your virus software while video capturing. I doubt your hardware is the limiting factor with your setup. You shouldn't be dropping frames with that rig. What is your capture source and how is it connected, BTW?

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Hey, I have the ASUS 7700 Deluxe, and my rig is P3-900 MHz.

I can capture at that resolution without dropping any frames.

Does that help?

 

[Trevelyan]

My capture source is a mini-DV camera... connected through composite.



So AnitaPeterson you can capture at 720X480 with the TV2000XP with no dropped frames? What codec do you use?

 

[Pauli]

Originally posted by: Trevelyan
My capture source is a mini-DV camera... connected through composite.



So AnitaPeterson you can capture at 720X480 with the TV2000XP with no dropped frames? What codec do you use?

It's a crime to capture composite from miniDV. For god's sake man, spend $25 on a Firewire card and capture in DV format. What are you thinking?