Analog to digital using camera - want to hear about successful procedures

I'm interested in learning about how other people convert analog to
digital using their camera connected to a firewire card.

What program do you use to capture the analog video?

Do you capture to AVI or some other format?

Do you have problems with sound being out of sync?
If so then how do you solve the sound problem?

Do you use an enhancer before sending the analog video to the camera?

What video bit rate do use when you render the video to a DVD or CD?

Do you use any filters before rendering the video such as a sharpening
or colour filter?

Regards Brian

Brian

"Brian" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I'm interested in learning about how other people convert analog to
> digital using their camera connected to a firewire card.
>
> What program do you use to capture the analog video?
>
> Do you capture to AVI or some other format?
>
> Do you have problems with sound being out of sync?
> If so then how do you solve the sound problem?
>
> Do you use an enhancer before sending the analog video to the camera?
>
> What video bit rate do use when you render the video to a DVD or CD?
>
> Do you use any filters before rendering the video such as a sharpening
> or colour filter?
>
> Regards Brian
>

I use a regular VCR player with RCA outs to mini jacks in on my Sony TRV-38
miniDV camera with pass-through(DV-IN/OUT) and from there out to PC via FW
cable, captured by Vegas 4.0 as AVI files(although now they are digitized by
handycam), and then process the recording with Vegas software. I can then
demux and process the audio via Sony's SoundForge 7.0 or Sonic Foundry's
Soft Encode for 5.1 encoding and remux back. Occasionally, I'll use Vegas'
filters if it calls for it on the video portion, maybe add a narration on a
second audio track. No sync problems yet. I've never had to "enhance" the
analog signal prior to digitizing. And yes, I often use sharpening as a
filter post transferring. I may even use color saturation filter as well as
transition filters. Occasionally, I'll use Scenalyzer to detect scenes for
easier cutting and editing. I capture using NTSC DV template with Sync
settings of SMPTE Non-Drop 30fps using an Audigy 2 soundcard.

Ron

Ron

Thanks Ron,
for putting detail into your video
procedure. Out of interest how long does it take you to recender a 10
minute or a 30 minute video when adding extra filters for colour
correction or to improve the sharpness?

Regards Brian

"Ron" <> wrote:

>
>"Brian" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> I'm interested in learning about how other people convert analog to
>> digital using their camera connected to a firewire card.
>>
>> What program do you use to capture the analog video?
>>
>> Do you capture to AVI or some other format?
>>
>> Do you have problems with sound being out of sync?
>> If so then how do you solve the sound problem?
>>
>> Do you use an enhancer before sending the analog video to the camera?
>>
>> What video bit rate do use when you render the video to a DVD or CD?
>>
>> Do you use any filters before rendering the video such as a sharpening
>> or colour filter?
>>
>> Regards Brian
>>
>
>I use a regular VCR player with RCA outs to mini jacks in on my Sony TRV-38
>miniDV camera with pass-through(DV-IN/OUT) and from there out to PC via FW
>cable, captured by Vegas 4.0 as AVI files(although now they are digitized by
>handycam), and then process the recording with Vegas software. I can then
>demux and process the audio via Sony's SoundForge 7.0 or Sonic Foundry's
>Soft Encode for 5.1 encoding and remux back. Occasionally, I'll use Vegas'
>filters if it calls for it on the video portion, maybe add a narration on a
>second audio track. No sync problems yet. I've never had to "enhance" the
>analog signal prior to digitizing. And yes, I often use sharpening as a
>filter post transferring. I may even use color saturation filter as well as
>transition filters. Occasionally, I'll use Scenalyzer to detect scenes for
>easier cutting and editing. I capture using NTSC DV template with Sync
>settings of SMPTE Non-Drop 30fps using an Audigy 2 soundcard.
>
>Ron
>
>

Brian

Am not. Am using ATI AIW card and VideoStudio. Only render quality VHS
tapes to compliant DVD mpeg2 format. Pinnacle Studio makes the intial DVD
to DVDRW after its render and compilation. If successful, I copy all these
files from DVDRW to HD. Then burn the files from HD to DVDR using Nero (not
express). There is no sync problem. Enhancement is not needed.

Your method renders analog for writing to camcorder, Pinnacle Studio can do
this. Then the camcorder saves it in raw format. Then it has to be
rendered again coming out of the camcorder to proper mpeg format, then
finally this must be rendered/compiled for DVD writing as above. Spinning
your wheels...

If you're talking video sourced from a camcorder, its not analog. Its raw
video. Am using VideoStudio for rendering that video to compliant mpeg2
format for DVD as well.
Dave
"Brian" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I'm interested in learning about how other people convert analog to
> digital using their camera connected to a firewire card.
>
> What program do you use to capture the analog video?
>
> Do you capture to AVI or some other format?
>
> Do you have problems with sound being out of sync?
> If so then how do you solve the sound problem?
>
> Do you use an enhancer before sending the analog video to the camera?
>
> What video bit rate do use when you render the video to a DVD or CD?
>
> Do you use any filters before rendering the video such as a sharpening
> or colour filter?
>
> Regards Brian
>

Lil' Dave

Brian wrote:
> Thanks Ron,
> for putting detail into your video
> procedure. Out of interest how long does it take you to recender a 10
> minute or a 30 minute video when adding extra filters for colour
> correction or to improve the sharpness?

This may be of help.

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"Brian" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Thanks Ron,
> for putting detail into your video
> procedure. Out of interest how long does it take you to recender a 10
> minute or a 30 minute video when adding extra filters for colour
> correction or to improve the sharpness?
>
> Regards Brian
>
> "Ron" <> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Brian" <> wrote in message
> >news:.. .
> >> I'm interested in learning about how other people convert analog to
> >> digital using their camera connected to a firewire card.
> >>
> >> What program do you use to capture the analog video?
> >>
> >> Do you capture to AVI or some other format?
> >>
> >> Do you have problems with sound being out of sync?
> >> If so then how do you solve the sound problem?
> >>
> >> Do you use an enhancer before sending the analog video to the camera?
> >>
> >> What video bit rate do use when you render the video to a DVD or CD?
> >>
> >> Do you use any filters before rendering the video such as a sharpening
> >> or colour filter?
> >>
> >> Regards Brian
> >>
> >
> >I use a regular VCR player with RCA outs to mini jacks in on my Sony
TRV-38
> >miniDV camera with pass-through(DV-IN/OUT) and from there out to PC via
FW
> >cable, captured by Vegas 4.0 as AVI files(although now they are digitized
by
> >handycam), and then process the recording with Vegas software. I can
then
> >demux and process the audio via Sony's SoundForge 7.0 or Sonic Foundry's
> >Soft Encode for 5.1 encoding and remux back. Occasionally, I'll use
Vegas'
> >filters if it calls for it on the video portion, maybe add a narration on
a
> >second audio track. No sync problems yet. I've never had to "enhance" the
> >analog signal prior to digitizing. And yes, I often use sharpening as a
> >filter post transferring. I may even use color saturation filter as well
as
> >transition filters. Occasionally, I'll use Scenalyzer to detect scenes
for
> >easier cutting and editing. I capture using NTSC DV template with Sync
> >settings of SMPTE Non-Drop 30fps using an Audigy 2 soundcard.
> >
> >Ron
> >
> >
>

To be honest, I never really noticed but I know it takes longer due to
additional filters processing the avi( which is understandable). A lot of
these are old movies taken with a VHS-c camcorder so I use an adapter
cartridge for the cassette. The quality of these weren't all that good even
with filters used. So some of them, I didn't even bother with juicing them
up. Once they were digital, I'd recopy back to miniDV tape for archiving
purposes with maybe a tweak here or there. Mostly with audio since the mono
mic in the JVC camcorder was horrible.

Ron

Ron

"Brian" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I'm interested in learning about how other people convert analog to
> digital using their camera connected to a firewire card.
>
> What program do you use to capture the analog video?
>
> Do you capture to AVI or some other format?
>
> Do you have problems with sound being out of sync?
> If so then how do you solve the sound problem?
>
> Do you use an enhancer before sending the analog video to the camera?
>
> What video bit rate do use when you render the video to a DVD or CD?
>
> Do you use any filters before rendering the video such as a sharpening
> or colour filter?
>
> Regards Brian
>

I use a Sony digital 8 with passthrough. DVIO, a freeware program
for capturing. Tmpegenc to convert to mpeg, freeware for avi to VCD
mpeg. I have Media Studio Pro but don't feel the need for it for this
kind of job. You can edit, crop, do color adjustment, deinterlace, etc.
with Tmpgenc and Virtualdub is helpful too, another freeware program
that will allow you to combine mpegs very quickly.
Good luck. The rendering time is dependent on your processor.

Not so quick