Capture question

My new laptop does not have an ieee 1394 input.  Can I capture HD video with USB3.0 or HDMI?

I think you will have problems trying to edit the video from those cameras with a laptop... unless you have a laptop that is specifically designed for video editing
Some ideas for a Laptop Video Editing PC from past discussions
http://www.sagernotebook.com/
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/957472
http://www.adkvideoediting.com/
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=637440&csid=ITD &recordsPerPage=10#
-NOTE only 1 hard drive in above, so you will need to add a 2nd drive or use eSata for video files
-or Google "ASUS G74SX-BBK7" (without the quote "" marks)
For effective HD video editing, a laptop with the following
-the newer Intel sandy bridge 2720 or 2820 quad processor
-and nvidia graphics preferably the 460m, 485m is a bit much
-1280x900 display with OpenGL 2.0-compatible graphics card
-and 8 or 16 gig ram and Win7 64bit Pro
-and 2 internal 7200 HDDs minimum
I don't have any links saved about Canon DSLR problems, but they would be "similar" to Nikon DSLR problems
Nikon D7000 MOV http://forums.adobe.com/thread/860846
-rename .mov to .mpg to force file loader to actually analyze the file
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/873475
Nikon D90 MJPEG http://forums.adobe.com/thread/901259
Nikon DSLR stutter http://forums.adobe.com/thread/889477

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  • Capturing Question #1

    Hi. I have two capturing questions that I could really use some help with, I'll keep them seperate.
    Since downloading the new FCP update I have had a new warning before capturing and I can't figure out what I'm supposed to do about it. Quoted as follows:
    WARNING: You are about to capture drop-frame media to a non
    drop-frame clip. If you proceed, you may experience changes in
    logged in and out points, problems relinking media, or removal of
    master clip relationships.
    Cancel OK
    I just don't know as much as I should about this stuff. Not even what other info you guys might need. I'm capturing Firewire from a Sony TRV-22 to a 250GB external LaCie.
    Thanks,
    Ariel.
    Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   FCP 5.1.2, QT 7.1.3, 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM

    The difference is in the TIMECODE. Somehow you have a batch of clips that have been logged with NON-DROP timecode...the : separators are all colons ":" that indicate that the footage logged was NDF TC. Drop frame separators look the same, but the last one is a SEMI colon ";" indicating drop frame code.
    Re-log that tape and you should be good to go.
    Shane

  • Spool Error capture question

    Hi,
    I am trying to spool data from tables into flat files. I am using the following scripts to accomplish it
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    This works perfectly fine. But the issue is when someone passes some wrong table name or if there is a actual run time error while executing the query , the error with details itself itself gets written to the end spool file.
    For eg : if i do this just to generate an error and execute it from command line, the query generates an error and writes the error to the spool file , but at the command prompt where I executed the command I do not see any error and the process seems to have run perfectly well
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    Thanks for the reply.
    Querying the data dictionary will work only when the issue is a invalid table name. My question is can i capture any run time error, not only incorrect table name.
    If there is any run time error (for eg the one I showed where I used a >< sign which is a invalid operator) the error gets written to my spool file, but there is no way I am able to capture that in my calling sql script and subsequently in the calling command file so that I can do something with the error. For eg if a spool file may get written with error messages, some batch process or user may pick up the spool file and start processing which i dont want to happen. i would like to trap that error or at least be notified of the error at my outer calling sql file or outer command file level, so that I can write the error to a log file and delete the erroneous spool file etc.

  • Drop-Frame vs. Non-Drop-Frame Capture question

    Hi,
    I'm using Final Cut Pro 5 capturing 16:9 anamorphic video and removing an advanced 24 frame pulldown from my Canon XL-2. This is for a documentary for which I have captured over 30 full tapes of footage. I've been logging in the clips FIRST, then going back and batch capturing everything afterwards.
    My question is this: I have logged everything the same way with seemingly all the same settings. However, when I capture some tapes I get the warning that I'm capturing Non-Drop frame media to a Drop-Frame clip and it could cause problems in the future with relinking. Then some tapes don't give me that message at all. Is there something I'm not noticing about how I log some tapes but not others? Would it have to do with the presets I have Final Cut set to when I'm capturing a tape? I'm fairly positive I've always setup FCP to the proper capture settings before logging anything...but could something else be causing this? Thanks for your help.
    -JD

    The thing to watch out for, both in logging and in capturing, is when you log or capture multiple tapes with mixed NDF & DF timecode.
    There are three or four things that can affect this:
    FCP5 and later allow you to set the TC format of the capture preset, such that the Log & Capture window would default to NDF if you are working with NDF tapes.
    Otherwise, Log & Capture will still auto-detect during playback when logging, but you have to be sure to play the tape some before logging the clip. If you capture multiple tapes using capture now, You could easily start recording before the time code format updates. This kind of error results in a clip whose in point is the correct "number", but the format is wrong.
    During Batch Capture, the device control is not always able to change the time code format. I'm not sure about FCP6, but I am in the habit of grouping my clips in batches according to the TC format. You ma be seeing this alert because you are switching the TC format of the tapes in the batch capture, but device control is "stuck" in DF mode, for instance. This is not an issue during logging, only capture.
    I think it may also be possible to override the clip's logged TC format at capture by unchecking "use logged clip settings".
    Capturing clips with the wrong TC format can really mess up recapture later. The offset that happens as the format gets converted back increases as the starting hour of the timecode gets bigger.
    So basically you can have clips that get logged wrong, and clips that were logged correctly, but captured with the wrong TC. It's easier to miss it when logging, since there's no alert message to pop up. But the other alert is there to tell you there is a mismatch somewhere, preventing you from making the second kind of error. Your only error may only be that you had both DF and NDF clips in the same batch.
    There is a trick to get the TC format to switch to the non-default for batch capture - Open Log & Capture and play the tape until you see the TC format update. Now start the batch capture with Log & Capture still open - device control will stay in that TC format now. Otherwise, I think device control switches to the format of the first clip in the batch, but stays there until you cancel and start a new batch.
    Hope this helps -
    Max Average

  • Trivial Image Capture Question

    Image Capture works just fine for me, when downloading photos from my camera. My question has to do with the thumbnails displayed in Image Capture's window while the photos are being downloaded. In 10.4 there is an abrupt transition from one to the next, as they download, but I recall that 10.3 used the "rotating cube" effect for the same thing. Does anyone know why this disappeared in 10.4 --- or if there is any way to get it back again? Ever since I installed 10.4, I keep thinking I must be missing something about this admittedly trivial feature.
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    The feature got lost in translation somewhere. Don't know why--I thought it was kinda neat and rather miss it. Maybe it will reappear somewhere down the line.
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  • Live audio capturing question

    We're using Reflectmedia and a Ultimatte DV. Since the ultimatte DV only captures either S-Video and output Firewire, we have no audio. Therefore, when the receiver of the wireless mic is connected to Digidesign M Box 2, I can hear it on the speaker. However, I can’t seem to log and capture the audio in on Final Cut Pro HD. Is there a way to log and capture the audio using a wireless mic?
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    c3lolle wrote:
    It would be very nice if you people could share some thoughts on a little problem I have.Sure thing.
    I'm gonna try and capture audio from a flash-application (www.delorean.se/mixer) and convert it to a .mp3-file.
    I browsed the web for a few days for a solution and first thought of using The Java Soun API but later read that it doesn't convert to .mp3 :(
    I managed to read and create .wav files with it and it wasn't too difficult at all so it was kind of sad that there's no .mp3 support
    Then I found JMF and saw that it has a mp3 converter plug-in :)Technically, no. JMF has an MP3 plugin that allows JMF to play MP3s, but the plugin does not allow you to create MP3s. Actually, the same plugin allows JavaSound to play MP3s too..
    [http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jmf/mp3/download.html]
    Would the JMF be a good tool to use for my problem?No, because you cannot encode MP3s. Only decode them...
    Does it work like Java Sound API?Not at all.
    Does anyone have any general tips when it comes to capture audio from the web using java? (It feels like I've looked over the whole web and I didn't find anyone trying to do the same thing or someone who has done anything similar in the past)Capturing audio is easy. JavaSound + applet...but if you need to store it as an MP3, you're probably going to want to build an Adobe Flex application.
    Adobe Flex is their free API you can use to build Flash applications. Google it.
    I would be so very happy if I could get some answers on these questions! Be happy. :-)

  • Is JMF the right choice? (audio capturing question)

    Hello everyone!
    It would be very nice if you people could share some thoughts on a little problem I have.
    I'm gonna try and capture audio from a flash-application (www.delorean.se/mixer) and convert it to a .mp3-file.
    I browsed the web for a few days for a solution and first thought of using The Java Soun API but later read that it doesn't convert to .mp3 :(
    I managed to read and create .wav files with it and it wasn't too difficult at all so it was kind of sad that there's no .mp3 support
    Then I found JMF and saw that it has a mp3 converter plug-in :)
    These are my questions:
    Would the JMF be a good tool to use for my problem?
    Does it work like Java Sound API?
    Does anyone have any general tips when it comes to capture audio from the web using java? (It feels like I've looked over the whole web and I didn't find anyone trying to do the same thing or someone who has done anything similar in the past)
    I would be so very happy if I could get some answers on these questions!
    Cheers!
    Edited by: c3lolle on May 15, 2009 6:05 AM
    Edited by: c3lolle on May 15, 2009 6:05 AM
    Edited by: c3lolle on May 15, 2009 6:06 AM
    Edited by: c3lolle on May 15, 2009 6:07 AM

    c3lolle wrote:
    It would be very nice if you people could share some thoughts on a little problem I have.Sure thing.
    I'm gonna try and capture audio from a flash-application (www.delorean.se/mixer) and convert it to a .mp3-file.
    I browsed the web for a few days for a solution and first thought of using The Java Soun API but later read that it doesn't convert to .mp3 :(
    I managed to read and create .wav files with it and it wasn't too difficult at all so it was kind of sad that there's no .mp3 support
    Then I found JMF and saw that it has a mp3 converter plug-in :)Technically, no. JMF has an MP3 plugin that allows JMF to play MP3s, but the plugin does not allow you to create MP3s. Actually, the same plugin allows JavaSound to play MP3s too..
    [http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jmf/mp3/download.html]
    Would the JMF be a good tool to use for my problem?No, because you cannot encode MP3s. Only decode them...
    Does it work like Java Sound API?Not at all.
    Does anyone have any general tips when it comes to capture audio from the web using java? (It feels like I've looked over the whole web and I didn't find anyone trying to do the same thing or someone who has done anything similar in the past)Capturing audio is easy. JavaSound + applet...but if you need to store it as an MP3, you're probably going to want to build an Adobe Flex application.
    Adobe Flex is their free API you can use to build Flash applications. Google it.
    I would be so very happy if I could get some answers on these questions! Be happy. :-)

  • Out of my League- video capture question.

    I'm strictly an amateur here, so don't assume much prior knowledge. I just bought a nifty little video camera called the Hawk Eye nature cam, to be installed as a spy cam in a squirrel house (long story...!). It even has a little IR lighting system built in for low light situations - pretty cool. Its output is RCA jacks, white and yellow, which work nicely directly plugged into the TV.
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    3) Would I be better off just purchasing a different video capture device, specifically compatible with Mac? Recommendations?
    4) Other issues I don't know about? format compatibilities, etc??
    Many thanks - this is probably stuff most of you can do in your sleep!

    Your Hawk Eye outputs a composite video signal (the yellow RCA connector). There are basically two ways you could connect this to your Mac -
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    2 - get an inexpensive miniDV camcorder that supports analog-digital passthrough and use it as your converter
    In both cases you could use iMovie or Final Cut Express to capture your video. However you might find it useful to record from the Hawk Eye to a miniDV camcorder and later capture just the sections you want.
    The little device you found on Amazon (and similar ones elsewhere) are not going to work. (Technical discussion available if you want to know why.)
    The EyeTV Hybrid would require an RF modulator, as you guessed, and it would really mess with the video quality, so I don't recommend it.

  • Video Capture Question

    I have a pretty basic question.  I have been using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 for the past few weeks and am positive this was an excellent purchase.  It does what I need and more (I have taken several tutorials and understand basic functions fairly well).  For my old data which was recorded on Mini-DV format (the new stuff is 1080P on SSD so it does not apply for my new stuff), my basic question is will capturing in CS5 using the DV out of my old camcorder provide the "same, better or lesser" results compared to using a specialized hardware converter.  I will most likely get a response of "it depends", but would like guidance for those that have used CS5.  I have used a hardware converter in the past with OK results.
    Sorry for the newbe question, but would like a quick response if anyone has time.  BTW - my PC is new build for video editing, has plenty of power and I do have mercury playback capability.
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    I also have RCA jacks on the camera, however, no matter how good the A/D converter is (if using the RCA jacks), the firewire will still be the best.
    Well, you basically have two different things there--yes, it's one camera, but you can use it to do two different things.
    On one hand, if you have miniDV tapes, the Firewire is the only connection you'll use. At that point, you're not transferring video in the traditional sense, but rather you're effectively copying from the tape to your hard drive. Whatever is on the miniDV tape is the same as what you will end up with on the hard drive. The analog connections (the RCA jacks) won't be used for this process at all. So if you're talking about DV video, it's as good as it gets.
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    In this case, the better the analog signal is that you feed to the A/D converter, the better the captured digital video would look. Obviously, there are all sorts of variables here--playback deck, type of analog connections, quality and features of the A/D converter, and the DV codec itself--you can control some of those, and some you really can't, depending on what you have access to. If you're not dealing with analog video, though, you don't have to worry about any of this

  • Pass Through Capturing Question

    Hi Guys-
    I found a post very similar to my question that didn't quite answer it: I'd like to pass through my miniDV camera using a non-controllable device (either my VCR or 8mm analog camera). Usually when I have my AV cables AND firewire connected simaltanously I can get nothing, therefore nothing shows up on the capture screen. I have a Sony miniDV handycam, DCR-TRV 22. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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    I take it you've adjusted the settings for your Camera? I use a Sony DCR-PC101 at home and, with the camera in VCR mode, I adjust the menu's VCR SET setting to A/V->DV Out.
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  • MiniDV camera/capture question

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    For the most part, the quality should be the same since its a digital transport. That being said, the heads on the XL are most likely a better quality and might do a better job of reading the information on the tape.
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  • Open image capture question

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    I downloaded the patch which allowed Premiere Pro 1.5 to work with HDV footage. I hooked up my Canon XL1s and captured the footage. Everything seemed to be working fine. I moved into After Effects to begin doing some work  on a shot, and After Effects would not open the .avi, I would get an error that read "No such compressor exists" ( Or very close to it ). I thought perhaps AE would not open the file type so I went back into Premiere to render out a quicktime or something familiar. However, premiere pro would only allow me to export files as CineForm, which AE does no recognize. I don't understand what the problem is, why can't I export my captured footage from Premiere as a quicktime, or jpeg sequence, etc?
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    Thanks for the welcome, Eddy!
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  • Premiere Pro CS3 Capture Question (Firewire to USB Converter)

    Does Premiere Pro CS3 support capture through a Firewire to USB Converter?  More specifically, we have one particular PC laptop that does not have a firewire port, only USB 2.0.  So we were thinking of getting a firewire to USB converter.  Will that work for capturing footage from our Mini DV camera?
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    Might work then again it might not. Have not heared of any positive results. In other words imo its a waste of money.
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  • Perturbing FCP 7 Log and Capture Question

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    From what you say, I would suggest that the OWC enclosure does not utilize/energize the firewire interface when it is using the eSata.
    This is just a guess.
    Connect the Drive/Camera to your desktop via the FW800 cable: Mac Pro > FW800 Cable > OWC enclosure >FW 6Pin to 4 Pin Cable > HDV Camera. The speed difference between eSata and FW should be minimal as in each case you are limited by the FW400 connection at the camera.
    MtD

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