Video Capture Direct to IPOD

Does anyone know of a way to use an IPOD video as a DVR - without a computer and video capture card. Is there some sort of device one can plug the IPOD into that connects directly to a TV signal (e.g. Composite, RCA, Component, S-video, etc) and would allow you to record that signal directly to the IPOD?

I don't believe such a device exists (yet).
Cheers!
-Bryan

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Is there a way to watch the videos I captured on my ipod on my computer? How do I delete the videos from the ipod?

Hello bluejester12,
Is there a way to watch the videos I captured on my ipod on my computer?
You will first have to navigate to your iPod's DCIM folder using *Windows Explorer*. Just locate your iPod's drive in "My Computer" and then double click on the DCIM folder and choose the appropriate video and it should play in Quicktime or your default movie player.
How do I delete the videos from the ipod?
You can delete them directory on the iPod, or by navigating to your iPod's DCIM folder and deleting there manually.
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Ipod video capture software

Hello out there....
I recently purchased an ipod with video capability, so now I am trying to convery VHS movies for play on an ipod. The problem is that I am running windows xp as an os, therefore most of the video capture software is set to capture in an avi format. So I have to capture in avi, convert to mov and finally use itunes to convert for the ipod. the bottom line is that I have to spend 2 hours at each step, and I wast to do it on the fly, so the whole process takes two hours, not six hours.
I found artech356.com, and they can capture in mov, but the file still has to be converted. Any suggestions? I went to the apple store locally, and they don't have any software either, so I am not inclined to buy an apple at this time.
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Yes, it is interesting that I am still using windows, but they had the market share, and the hardware/software combo was less expensive and easier to obtain and maintain at the time. I checked out apple, and the only software they have to do what I want to do is a high dollar professional version, so it would take about $3000 to switch over.
It is like this, IBM is the mathematical and logical side of the brain, apple is the creative side. To function properly, we need both. I just more naturally gravitated towards the mathematical side because of my personality type. Now that I have seen the creative side, I wish to explore in greater depth, and the appropriate software that lets me do both is not apparently available yet.
The last time I actually used or touched an apple computer it was the one they first came out with in the late 70's or the early 80's. I did recently visit an apple store, and they seem to have improved since then. Do you think they will catch on? I do now that Jobs is back at the helm.
regards,
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Pinnacle Video Capture for Mac

After talking with a bunch of salesmen (considering getting a DvD writer), I took the advice of someone in the Apple Store and bought a Pinnacle Video Capture for Mac to copy my laserdiscs. It was $100 before tax, and didn't do stuff I don't plan on doing anyway. I did spend another $25 to get an S-video cable.
I installed the software and connected it up to my LD. I started capturing the movie, and selected S-Video (although in the small window they showed, I didn't see any difference between that and video out. I selected a max time from a limited selection, and let it record.
After a while, I went downstairs and saw that the audio and video were not synchronized at all. I let it continue.
After a while I came down again, and the movie was finished, so I stopped it. I found the MP4 - it was in the iTunes movie directory, and played it in iTunes. I fast-forwarded it to near the end, the voice and video were way off-set.
I haven't tried burning this yet.
Quicktime player doesn't think this is a valid movie file. I selected "open with" and "other" and the recommended applications had iMovie greyed out.
Why in the world would the audio and video record at different speeds?
Do I have to buy software to edit the movie down to the correct size?
My Mac has:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version: 1.21f4
I noticed the Pinacle Video Capture program was still running, so I tried to quit it, and got a window asking for my administrator ID and passsword to allow Pinnacle Video Capture to make changes. Why?

The audio drifted out of sync because the Dazzle doesn't support locked audio. For short videos (say, under 10 minutes) this won't be very noticeable but when you capture longer videos it becomes progressively worse over time.
What do you want to do with your Laserdisk copies? Watch them on your iPod? Edit and/or burn to DVD?
A device like the Canopus ADVC-110 will do the video/audio conversion properly, keeping the audio and video in sync regardless of the length of your video. It converts to DV, not to MP4, and you would use it with iMovie or Final Cut (not iTunes). However you can export your video from iMovie or Final Cut to iPod/AppleTV formats.
The Dazzle device will not work directly with iMovie or Final Cut.
ps. If all you really want to do is transfer your Laserdisc videos to DVDs, it will be a whole lot faster & simpler to get a DVD player/recorder that has analog inputs and record directly to DVDs. There are many brands & models to choose from and many good ones are as inexpensive as the $100 you spent on the Pinnacle converter.

Elgato video capture versus digital 8 camcorder to import hi 8 movies

Hi!
I have hi 8 video tapes which i want to import into my MacBook.
I would like to work on them with iMovie 09, cut them, set titles etc. put music on and so on.
Earlier I plugged my hi 8 camcorder into my panasonic DMR E85H dvd recorder with built in hdd.
Then i importet them via handbrake into my MacBook.
Then i importet them into iMovie 08 an did some cutting and so on.
Then i recognized, that there where horizontal interferences in the movie.
On the dvds the video is ok!
It doesn´t matter if i play the videos in Quicktime or in iTunes or iMovie.
If i would use a Elgato Video Capture to import or a digital 8 camcorder to import the videos to my MacBook would i be able to get a better result?
Which one should i prefer - i have to buy each of them!
Would the size of the camcorder-imported videos be bigger then with the Elgato device?
Now i´m using iMovie 09.
Thanks a lot for helping me out!

Based on your comments about horizontal interferences, it may be that you are seeing interlace artifacts. The solution may be to deinterlace the clips.
You might try checking the settings in handbrake to deinterlace.
You might also take the clip you have produced in HB and deinterlacing using a free tool like MPEG Streamclip or JES Deinterlacer.
Your MPEG2 on DVD is already compressed from the original on tape. Then HandBrake decompresses and recompresses it to h.264. You generally want to cut out compression steps in your workflow whenever possible, because each generation of compression will introduce noise and loss.
You could also reimport from DVD using MPEG Streamclip (and the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component). You could deinterlace at this step if needed.
You could certainly import through a camcorder with passthru capability. It will be DV which will be a very high data rate and potentially high quality, but it will never be higher quality than the underlying analog material. But you will have eliminated a compression step so you will be closer to the original.
ElGato products will certainly work as well. I use the ElGato EyeTV hybrid to capture from a VHS Deck, as well as to record high definition TV shows. My ElGato will capture to MPEG2, although the newer models may capture directly to MPEG4 (not sure). You would then use the ElGato software to export to iMovie in an editable format such as h.264 or Apple Intermediate Codec.

How can I get Hi8 video captured in NTSC Standard, to display as 4:3 when DVD is played on TV?

I have been capturing Hi8 tapes of our family, using a Sony analog-to-digital converter and Adobe Premier 10's NTSC Standard (4:3) preset. However, when I use Premiere Elements 10 to burn the digital files to DVDs and then play them on a Sony DVD player and Bravia flat-panel TV, the video is distorted in width automatically by the Wide Zoom mode. The TV cannot be configured to display the frames in the Normal Mode because the resolution is 720p, so the images cannot be viewed with the original 4:3 frame aspect ratio.
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Thanks for replying Steve. I've been using a Sony DVMC-DA2, an analog-to- digital media converter which I was advised is used by people converting media professionally. I've been using an S-Video cable to connect it to my Sony Hi8 video camera (Model CCD-TR101), which was considered to be a high-end camera, back in the day (1992). The converter is connected to my Windows 7 computer with an IEEE 1394, "FireWire" cable. I'm not sure how I would check the format into which the Hi8 video is being converted, but I've followed the Adobe Premiere 10 Video Tutorial and configured the capture preset to the NTSC Standard (4:3), which is the one recommended for DV cameras. I couldn't find any advice specifically explaining how to configure the preset when converting analog Hi8 to digital.
In the Premiere Elements 10 editing software itself, the video images burned on a DVD are not distorted, and the quality of the video images during editing looks to be every bit as good as the camera could record.
When I started showing the DVD's to my family, however, I was very disappointed to discover that everything looked stretched in the horizontal direction. I have since studied the configuring of frame aspect ratio modes (Normal, Zoom, Wide Zoom and Full) described in the Sony Bravia TV's instruction manual, in detail. And, I have tried every conceivable combination of the picture and frame settings to see if I could "unstretch' the video images. No, luck. It was then that I came across a footnote that indicated that the Normal mode was not available for video resolutions of 720p, 1080 and higher. Unfortunately, the NTSC Standard preset indicates that it does capture DV in images that have 720 horizontal pixels by 480 vertical pixels.
When I view the Hi8 burned to DVD's on other computers, using Windows Media Player and Video Lan, they are not distorted. In fact, they look so good that I'm just about ready to dedicate my laptop as the DVD player for my TV set! It was while contemplating whether there might be a way to avoid doing this, that it occured to me to try capturing some Hi8 tape using the NTSC Wide Screen preset option. My half-formed idea was that, since the ratio of pixel width to pixel height in the Standard preset was smaller than with the Widescreen preset, using the latter to capture an analog video image might either (1) expand the width of the overall image much farther, and cause grotesque distortion, or (2) squash the width of the overall image, so that it looked normal. I can't pretend to have known what I was doing, since I don't understand video recording technology, but it also occured to me that the Widescreen preset might degrade the resolution, so that it was somehow no longer 720p, and thereby possibly circumvent the Sony lockout of the Normal Mode for these DVD's. Whatever it did, capturing Hi8 video with the NTSC Widescreen preset did, indeed, reduce the width of the frames appearing on the TV Screen, so that they apperared normal.
The question with which I'm now wrestling is whether to go back and re-capture all of the Hi8 tapes, with the NTSC Widescreen preset, that I had already captured with the NTSC Standard preset - a big job. The warning window that popped-up when I prepared to burn the test video captured with the Widescreen preset gave me the option of correcting my "mistaken" choice of capture preset. I declined, and was rewarded with an undistorted video image. Which raises the possibility that, somewhere in Premiere Elements 10, there may be the capability of invoking that same pop-up window and modifying what the software considers to be the "correct," Standard preset to the Widescreen preset,so that I can change the formatting for all of the HI8 tapes I've already captured, so that they can be burned to DVD's and viewed in their proper frame aspect ration.
This has been a long-winded follow-up to your initial answer to my question, but I would very much appreciate any further suggestions.
Many thanks. Paul

Using FW800 as 'scratch' disk for SD video capture does not work?

New iMac buyers beware - if you plan to capture video via FW400 (most SD camcorders do), you cannot capture directly to a FW800 disk. Workaround is to capture to your Mac HD first - there is no problem there.
When my FW800 external disk is mounted and I connect my camcorder via FW400, the FW800 drive keeps unmounting/remounting and is unusable. I noticed on Profiler that iMac groups the firewire devices in the same category (for FW800 and FW400) implying the bandwidth is shared and not independent.
I should have bought the Mac Pro.
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I switched from direct show to media foundation to capture video from webcams. It is a desktop application and works well with both direct show and media foundation on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 desktop computers for a lot of different webcams.
Trying the same application on a Windows 8.1 Atom based tablet, the video is very dark and green.
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Has anyone tried capturing the camera of an Atom z3700 series tablet with media foundation using the media session? If so, is special handling of the media source required on these tablets?
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On the contrary of my previous post, the MFTrace file shows an error:
"COle32ExportDetours::CoCreateInstance @ Failed to create {FEB9695C-C7DF-4D40-8019-00FA047288FF} KSPlugin Class (C:\Windows\system32\IntelCameraPlugin.dll) hr=0x80004005 E_FAIL"
This dll contains the Intel Camera MFT. While it is on the specified location, it cannot be loaded. According to the Windows Driver Kit documentation, a camera MFT is used in windows store device app.
My assumption is that this MFT is responsible for doing post processing of the video stream from the camera. Since it cannot be loaded, the video stream is dark with a green color fault.
By the way, setting brightness or exposure via IAMVideoProcAmp and IAMCameraControl has no effect, Setting/reading these properties returns S_OK, the properties are stored correctly but obviously ignored.
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Or more succinctly, can I turn my 1080p camcorder into a webcam?
Camcorders have better image quality than webcams (okay, maybe not necessarily JVC, but Canon's do) and more features, such as 38x zoom. And my MacBook has a much nicer and bigger screen than that little LCD fold-out piece all camcorders have. So combining the superior video capture of the camcorder with the superior display capability of the MacBook along with the advantage of live recording directly to the MacBook's harddrive (no intermediate SD card file transfer step from device to device) would result in an enhanced video capturing experience. All that is required is some adapter that will take HDMI from the camera and translate it into something the MacBook will see as a webcam (usb or thunderbolt). So where do I find such an adapter?

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These are the import video sources supported by PRE:
If your camcorder manual is telling you that it outputs MPEG2 (this is a standard definition format) try the 'DVD Camcorder or PC DVD Drive' format.
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In Need of Video Capture Card

Hello
I am a digital video editor working with Adobe Premiere 6.0. I have noticed that when I try to capture video on the program all I get is a grey screen with no video and no audio ,however, I do get device control. I have learned that I do not have a video capture card installed on my computer. I was directed to this link to assist me with possible video capture card brands http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/capturecard_partners/#head2 I have learned that AJA, which is on the list, does not have ANYTHING for Adobe Premiere 6.0 because of how old the program is. I moved on down the list and contacted Blackmagic Design. They have contacted me back, however, do not have an answer ready yet. Here are the specs for my computer...
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Hey Bill,
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Bill
hah ! this is what happens when your sausage if full...you get all the fun questions !
I was going to say something but my feelings are hurt.... I'm going to the lounge instead....( time for a beer )
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I have just captured some video clips from my Hi8 Camcorder and exported it to iMovie on my Apple Mac. Unfortunately there is no audio sound on the captured video. Can any one help? I am using Roxio Video Capture USB to capture the video from my camcorder.
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>I am using Roxio Video Capture USB
That's the problem. The Roxio device captures in a highly compressed, multiplexed (muxed) format that isn't intended for editing. Muxed files won't playback audio without the proper software installed on your system. You could try using MPEG Streamclip to convert the captured files to an editable format, but that means you'll be taking a double hit on quality.
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hbars, thanks for pointing out internal drive too slow and may drop frames. that is good to know.
i've previously captured direct to HD on a Dell laptop with a typical 7200 RPM internal drive. it may be my HDV does not have a particularly fast bitrate... it is still about 13 MB/sec of MPEG-2 (is only 720p).
since picking up a MacBook I'd like to try the exact same thing on the Mac. Sync may certainly be an issue, but I'm trying this because some live performances last longer than 60 (or 90) minutes. to switch tapes i lose coverage from this angle.
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Hello,
I'm a little bit stuck with the CIVideoDemoGL. How do I add video capture feature to this demo instead of using a file as input?
I know how I capture the video stream from camera and captureOutput:didOutputVideoFrame:withSampleBuffer:fromConnection: is called every time a new frame comes. I can also see a preview of the captured video on screen on the CaptureView.
What I want to accomplish is methods to manipulate video on the fly (as in CIVideoDemoGL) directly from a camera (iSight or likely).
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When I run this code I retrieve the following error in console +Program received signal: “EXCBADACCESS”.+
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Hello again,
Thanks for your help. There was something wrong with my code.
During this weekend I have managed to get captured video playing. But the video is almost black and white and if you zoom into it you can see red blue and green vertical lines. Even if I remove the filters I can see this happen. If I compare the video with the Capture view that I have implemented beside the OpenGL View I can see all colors on the first one. Any ideas?
I have modified the original renderCurrentFrame to the following:
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NSRect frame = [self frame];
NSRect bounds = [self bounds];
CGRect imageRect;
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CIImage *timecodeImage;
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if(!readyToGrabFrame)
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inputImage = [CIImage imageWithCVImageBuffer:mCurrentImageBuffer];
imageRect = [inputImage extent];
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[compositeFilter setValue:[effectFilter valueForKey:@"outputImage"] forKey:@"inputBackgroundImage"];
[compositeFilter setValue:timecodeImage forKey:@"inputImage"];
CGPoint p = CGPointMake((int)((frame.size.width - imageRect.size.width) * 0.5), (int)((frame.size.height - imageRect.size.height) * 0.5));
// render our resulting image into our context
[ciContext drawImage:[compositeFilter valueForKey:@"outputImage"]
atPoint:p
fromRect:imageRect];
// housekeeping on the visual context
QTVisualContextTask(qtVisualContext);
My captureOutput:didOutputVideoFrame:withSampleBuffer:fromConnection is moved to VideoView class instead and I have also created an object that keeps the captured buffer with the name mCurrentImageBuffer
The method looks like this now:
- (void)captureOutput:(QTCaptureOutput *)captureOutput didOutputVideoFrame:(CVImageBufferRef)videoFrame withSampleBuffer:(QTSampleBuffer *)sampleBuffer fromConnection:(QTCaptureConnection *)connection
countFrames++;
[lock lock];
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releasedImageBuffer = mCurrentImageBuffer;
mCurrentImageBuffer = videoFrame;
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