Capture cards and prod. monitors

We are looking to add a PCIe capture card and reasonably priced production monitor to our new MacPro system. My search results mostly pointed toward card pre-PCIe. Any insight into a good pairing would be helpful.
We are not looking at doing any HD at this time, broadcast is questionable. Mostly out to DVD and presentation type work.
Thanks in advance!

www.aja.com
Kona 3 or Kona LHe.
Or...these great SD cards/devices that connect via firewire:
AJA I/O, I/O LS, I/O LA
www.decklink.com
Decklink HD Extreme
Capture cards are all broadcast quality. You may not need it, but the option is there.
Why do you need one?
Shane

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Dazzle Capture Card and HDTVs

Okay i have a dazzle capture card and i want to use it with a new hdtv but none of the hdtvs
seem to have the right output unless i dont know what its called please help me!

The N95 does not have facility for a hardwired audio/video input & the PC capture card likewise have only a audio/video input ports, where one can capture video from a video players, or TV receivers. You wanted to stream a video from PC to the phone, its not possible.
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Need Video Capture Card and DVD Burner Quick!

Here's my situation. I've created some movie titles in iMovie and have no way to get them from my Macintosh to my DVD/VCR to incorporate them in a tape I'm making. I need it like NOW as a lot of people are waiting for copies of the tape!
For some time I've wanted a device called a video capture card. It has the ability to play videos on your computer and you can print out images from them. What I want to do is make DVDs of my VHS home movies. I did learn you can't just walk into any local store and buy such a device; it must be ordered.
Desperation is a great motivator and finally (duh) I decided to look at a site specializing in Macintosh products, instead of studying every capture card online. Surprisingly, they offer three models: one cheap ($50-some), one at twice the price of the first, and a third at ten times the price of the second! That's quite a jump! Here's the middle one, which they claim is the best on the planet: http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/detail~dpno~197329.asp
So, as I understand this, I somehow connect this device to my computer (Power Mac G4), hook a VCR to it, and then I can play videotapes on my computer. If I'm in a desperate hurry to burn DVDs I suppose my friend's DVD player will also connect to this device, or am I wrong in this?
Even if I am right (that a DVD player/burner will connect to this) I still don't see how that gives ME a DVD burner with which to transfer my videos to DVD! My combo player will make videos from DVDs but not the other way around! So do I have to run out and buy a DVD burner, and should it be any special kind since it will be used with a device connected to a Macintosh? I need this ASAP so thanks for any advice, or clarification to my understanding of how this process works!

Cornelia,
Lennart's links are very good and informative. But one thing you should know is that an external DVD burner will not play a DVD - it only burns them. Since you want to view the DVD and pause at a particular scene and print it, you'll need some way to view your DVD. You also need a way to convert the iMovie project with the imported VHS footage, to a burnable format. iDVD can do that, but I noticed you have OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). If you don't have iDVD you'll need to buy it from the Apple store.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/70901/wo/u13Sbz1 DQJRc2kZnHbi1QKZybZA/1.0.19.1.0.8.25.7.11.0.3 or you can buy Roxio Toast 7, but toast is much more expensive. For Toast go to: http://www.roxio.com/
You also need a media player so you can view your final DVD. I did some quick research and found out that none of the free media players allows you to print - which is what you want to do. There are quite a few free media players available, like Nice player and Xine Player, but you need Panther or higher to use them. Because you're running OS X 10.2, the only free media player that you can use is VLC media player. To download a free VLC player go to: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ You do need QT 6.5.2. or higher. So you may need to update your QT.
You can't print a paused image, but you can take a snap shot of the still image, then print that. Snap Shot=CommandShift4. This will allow you to select the paused picture in the screen, or if you like just a portion of that paused picture. It will save on your desktop as a picture. Double click on the Picture, then print that.
Then it sounds like after you've burned the DVD with your titles, you will need to connect a VHS recorder to a DVD player and record your DVD on to VHS tape.
Good Luck,
JAM
iMac G5 2.0 GHZ 1.5 RAM, 250 internal HD, 160 ext. HD Mac OS X (10.4.1)

Software for a TV capture card and DV camera?

Hi,
I have an old Hauppauge WinTV USB (audio/video capture device) that I'm trying to use to capture some footage (composite connection, not tuner). I've tried various CLI and GUI software and I've had most luck with VLC; I can capture video but not sound.
Before I spend more hours trying to get it working, I wonder if someone would have any recommendations of software that may work well with this device. I'm also about to start using my DV camera so it would be nice if the software will work with both devices. I don't mind if it is CLI or GUI.
Thanks

I've used mencoder for this in the past (companion app to mplayer) and it works fairly well. It is nice because you can play around with command line parameters for mplayer, and once you can watch your live video stream correctly you can pass the same parameters to mencoder to record/encode it instead.
I've also used transcode in the past. It seems to be better quality, but it's more complex to get going.
I'm not sure whether transcode can handle TV cards, but mplayer/mencoder can, and probably has the best support out there for obscure cards and the settings needed to get a decent picture out of them.
They can both handle DV by piping data to them from either dvgrab or dvconnect, if you want to both read DV data and transcode it at the same time. Otherwise you can dvgrab/dvconnect to a file and transcode that later. I prefer that option because dvgrab can automatically split the recording up based on the DV index marks, giving you a separate file for each segment of video recorded (assuming your DV camera inserts an index mark every time you press the record button of course!)

Duel video capture cards and Windows 7 MCE

Hello, I'm wondering why WMC will only see (1) video capture card, when (2) are installed?
I have DirecTV with HD STB (2) which do not require tuners, they have HDMI output (or component RGB output), so a capture card is what I'm using to bring video to my computer. WMC works great with (1) card, but won't see a second card installed.
I have searched TGB and found this link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130727050420/http://experts.windows.com/frms/windows_entertainment_and_connected_home/f/23/t/103542.aspx
and have applied the changes recommended, but still it won't work. The article states the problem is NO 2nd PVR is installed and the steps to install it. I've rebooted and still don't have a 2nd instance of a PVR.
Hauppauge is no help at all, gives me the same instructions...
What am I missing here, possibly roll back the driver? I installed the current version...

Hi,
Please check the following information to see if it helps.
1. Check if the hardware is Windows 7 compatible.
2. Update the Video capture card driver.
More information:
Media Center Technical Discussion 1: Tuners and TuningSpaces
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/peterrosser/archive/2006/04/03/mce-techtalk-1.aspx
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/5/5b5bec17-ea71-4653-9539-204a672f11cf/MCPCvidcap.doc
Best Regards,
Jason Zeng
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Graphics Card and Two Monitors - Split VRAM

When you use two monitors with one graphics card, it splits the VRAM and affects graphics performance, correct?
1) Is there a way to temporarily disable the second monitor to free up VRAM?
2) What happens to icons on the desktop of the second monitor if I disconnect it (after shutting down)?

SwitchResX 3.8.6 is for sale at http://www.mupromo.com/ today. That may be useful for you.
Here is the developer's site: http://www.madrau.com/html/SRX/About.html

Recommendations on Capture Cards

Greetings,
What would be recommendations for good capture cards and break out boxes?
I've looked at the AJA KONA 3 - I've also looked at the Blackmagic - any recommendations? Also does anyone have a preference with a broadcast monitor that they use. I'm in the stages of revamping my workflow.

In order to give you the best recommendation, we need to know what you do. What workflows are you employing, what kind of footage are you working with, what kinds of things do you need to do, and what is your budget. There are SO MANY options, that cover a wide variety of things. I don't want to do what a lot of people do and say "Kona 3...period. It does everything." Because it isn't true, it doesn't do everything. Plus it might be overkill for your needs. THe Kona 3 works with 2K, and can upconvert, but it is digital in only, have analog sources you are outta luck, unless you shell out more money for converters. And it doesn't have HDMI out. The LHi has HDMI I/O, and analog IO, and upconverts. But wait, you want this to work on a laptop too! OK, Matrox MXO2 line, AJA IO Express...
Like looking at cars...you don't want people to say "Get the BMW 7 Series...it's the best car built" when you a) can't afford that and b) don't need everything it does. You might just need to drive around town. Or, you might have to drive 7 people (you and your 5 kids), which you can't do in a BMW 7 series. Or you might need to haul gear. OK, analogy over.
What are your needs/workflows?
Shane

BlackMagic Intensity Pro Capture Card & (3) 1TB Internal Hard Drives

Hello,
This is my first time using BM Intensity Pro. Prior to tonight all I used was FW400 & iMovie/iDVD.
I have now upgraded to Final Cut Studio with a BM Intensity Pro Capture Card and Three 1TB Hard Drives (7200 RPM with 32MB cache) - Striped as a RAID set to create ONE 2.7 TB HD for Video Storage.
I have a few questions that I would like some help with.
I would like to capture at the highest video quality possible.
I'm worried that Hard Drives wont be able to handle the capture speed or file size?
I ran the BM Disk Speed Test. I'm just not sure what all these numbers mean?
Can someone please explain to me what the following information is telling me?
Do the results mean that I'm good to go with uncompressed HDV via HDMI?
The first is my OEM Mac Hard Drive. The second is my 3TB RAID set.
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test Results
Date: 2009-06-07 22:10:23 -0400
Mac OS X Version: 10.5.7
Physical Memory: 2047 MB
QuickTime Version: 7.6.2
Read Speed: 62.5 MB/s
Write Speed: 60.9 MB/s
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test Results
Date: 2009-06-07 22:13:26 -0400
Mac OS X Version: 10.5.7
Physical Memory: 2047 MB
QuickTime Version: 7.6.2
Read Speed: 314.9 MB/s
Write Speed: 310.0 MB/s

About using the speed test:
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/124/864289
I would invest in an external RAID controller.
You can find a variety of such from AMUG in RAID5/6 that will support higher sustained thruput.
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/reviews.html
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/highpoint/4322/
http://www.barefeats.com/hard115.html
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/highpoint/3522/
http://www.barefeats.com/hard101.html
Those should also give you a better feel for what to do with those numbers and what to look for.

Viewing footage on desktop and external monitor at same time

Maybe i'm missing something, but is there any way to view footage simultaneously on your desktop monitor and your external broadcast monitor (via blackmagic output)?
Right now when I enable mercury transmit, the viewer within speedgrade goes to grey and I can only see the footage on the external monitor. This makes it impossible to draw custom shapes around objects (rather than just use the stock circle masks) which I use quite a bit...I would like to have the view on both monitors like I have in resolve.
If this isn't possible, is there a quick shortcut to toggle mercury transmit on and off without having to go into the settings menu?
Any help would be appreciated...I am enjoying a lot of the controls that are in speedgrade but there are some workflow hurdles that I need to get over in order to be able to use effectively in client sessions from time to time.
Thanks!

I waited expectantly and patiently for Adobe to enable Mercury Transmit in SG and to be able to make use of my BM card and external monitor.
O.K we got it in CC2014.1...but it is either Mercury Transmit or Dual Display!
I think this half-arsed solution is an absolute fail that we cant use desktop and an external monitor simultaneously.
Has anyone on the SG team actually been in a real world CC and Grade Suite?
At least we got consistency with the blue color scheme if not how Mercury Transmit works across the suite of apps.

Capture card necessary or recommended?

I've read conflicting advice about capture cards and HDV. One reviewer said he imported HDV footage into FCP 5 using Firwire from camera to Mac, and it was as easy to capture and edit as DV footage. Others say that it's much better to go through a capture card.
I have an antique Mac -- a G5 1.8DP -- and an HDV camera. For now, most of my output will be SD, but I want to archive HDV for future use.
There are still one or two cards made for my computer. Should I consider getting one?

Hello.
If you want to archive your footage as HDV, then you can capture as HDV... are you using a camera as a deck?
The issue you may find if you start editing in HDV is the lack of grunt in your G5... (what exactly is 1.8DP? do you mean 1.8Ghz?)
The reason why people use the capture card route is because people have cottoned on to the fact that HDV can be captured as DVCPROHD which is a superior format, but much more demanding on your system.
I believe that if you want to stay in the realm of HDV, don't need a capture card.

How can I asociate a DataSource to a Port for my Video Capture Card???

Hi!
First of all, I sorry for my bad english.
I'm trying to manage ports of my Video Capture Card.It's 4 ports. I believe I can manage it cause running this code I found in a web, I can see a panel called Video Source that contain all my capture devices (the capturer card too) and the four ports. Ports have been asociate like SVIDEO, TVTUNNER, COMPOSITE, COMPOSITE2. I'm trying use PortControl, but I don't ontain nothing. I'm learning java for around only three weeks, I don't know very much.
My question: How can I asociate a DataSource to a Port for my Video Capture Card and so manage 4 streamings data . Should I work Port Control over a medialocator, a datastream, a player...?
I'm looking forward your answers. I'm very sad cause this problem.
Thanx for advance!

xinixmayur, please don't post in threads that are long dead. When you have a question, start your own topic. Feel free to provide a link to an old post that may be relevant to your problem.
I'm locking this thread now.
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HDV capture card

I'm looking for a capture card that support HDV camcorders, for G5.
But it seems that doesn't exist any card: I found only HD or SD capture cards.
The only HDV capture card that is able to native editing hdv video in realtime from hdv camcorders is the canopus EDIUS NX (and canopus velxus 300 in Japan); but the problem is that canopus hdv card is only for PC.
I called canopus and they said me that these cards will be for MAC when Apple will release the new powermac intel-based.
So I read in the apple FCP 5 HD page this:
"Native HDV Support
Final Cut Pro 5 supports native long-GOP MPEG-2 editing for working with camera-original HDV video. Unlike other solutions, Final Cut Pro 5 acquires HDV media via FireWire and keeps it in the original format, transferring it into the system without any generation loss. Output via FireWire back to an HDV camera or deck, or transfer your native HDV to DVD Studio Pro 4 for an end-to-end native HDV workflow."
I know that it is not possible capture a video by firewire from a camcorder without further compressing it. I know that it is for this reason that pro use capture cards (that have dedicated processors for this).
So I think that there aren't HDV capture cards for mac because the hardware companies don't make new cards for only few months, so they're waiting the new intel-based macs. If so, this firewire technology of final cut pro 5 is a compromise for these last times, or is it really like the capture-card processing? and if so, how is it possible capturing a hdv video by firewire without further compressing it?
Do you know about a HDV card for MAC or is it really good using Final Cut Pro HD 5 with firewire ?
Thank you.

It all depends on what type of work you are doing...
Capture Cards are for use with other formats that cannot be captured via firewire: BetaSP, Digibeta, HDCAM, D5. They are also require for outputting to these formats.
Not many broadcast facilities will take a DVCAM master...some will, but most won't. And depending on your client, they may or may not take an HDV master. They may want an HDCAM or D5 master if they are producing HD content. For that you need a capture card and high speed drive RAIDS.
Why do other pricier systems come with capture cards? Because they are sold that way. FCP, out of the box, is ready to edit DV, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD and HDV...FULL RESOLUTION...no compression. Any need to do higher end requires a capture card.
Shane
"There's no need to fear, UNDERDOG is here!"

Usb video capture card question

I have a pinnacle usb pctv deluxe video capture card and so far im not able to get it to work, i have tried using pctv_gtk that i got off of source forge and installed dunetools and dunelib but im still not able to even get udev to understand what it is if anyone has got one of these to work please let me know
thanks guys

You can try the following cards:
AMD Radeon HD 6350 (512 MB)
AMD Radeon HD 7450 (1 GB)
NVIDIA NVS 300 (512 MB)
NVIDIA NVS 310 (512 MB)
Reference: http://www8.hp.com/in/en/products/desktops/product-detail.html?oid=5232852
I work for HP....
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Best Sequence Presets for Elgato Capture Card

I record gameplay onto my Elgato Capture Card and Im not sure what sequence's are best for it. I've always used "DV - PAL Widescreen 48Hz" but when I drag my footage in a popup always appears saying "Change Sequence Setting" or "Keep Exsiting Setting". When I click Keep Excsiting the bar turns red and i have to render it all which then makes it all lower quality for some reason. But when I click change sequenct setting it stays the good quality it started off as.
Can someone help explain this as well as the best sequenct for Elgato Capture card?

I clicked cancel after creating a new project and it wanted me to pick a sequence.
So I drag my file, click the on the icon but then what? It gives me all these different options. If i create new sequenct im back where i started with my problem.
Im not sure what your tyring to tell me with this screenshot?

Capture card plug-in

Hi,
My company has developed a H.264 HD capture card and I would like to support it in Adobe Premiere Elements 8/9 (PE).
I have a few questions that I hope you can help answer :
1.     Which SDK should I use for the plug-in ?
2.     The card supports only compressed streams, meaning it has to be decoded in PE for preview. Is this type of use case supported ?
3.     What type of plug-in/plug-ins will I need to develop ? Are there examples ?
Thanks for any guide.

I was wondering the same thing.
'was just looking around MSDN for you.
Basically you should build a WDM filter. It exposes itself as a DirectShow pin which the user can join to.
For capture that would be your "WDM Filter"-> FileOut Filter
For preview (sorry doesn't look like you can do it at the same time unless there is a "Duplicator filter".. Anyhow for preview you would join the "WDM Filter" -> "h264 Decode Filter" -> "Display Filter".
I also came across this:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsdirectshowdevelopment/thread/6faf85ed-47 2a-4975-89f8-c933624642ed
it is a comment on how Microsoft has a free non-GPL h264 decoder shipped with Win7 and above.
Here is the MPEG2 & MPEG4/h264 Decoder Filter (NOTE it's 32bit only)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd390679(VS.85).aspx
Zac, can you confirm that he should:
     Step 1: make a WDM Filter
     Step 2: use the generic Capture Recoder from Prem PE to attach to the now standard capture device.
Or... does he need to explicitly code for his filter connected to the Win7 h264 Decoder then into Prem PE.
I'm interested to understand how this works. Please keep us up to date with your progress.
Edward.

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