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Screen Capture
RonH
Contributor Location: Norway (from Australia) Joined: Sep 05, 2011 10:13 Messages: 364 Offline
[Post New] Dec 12, 2012 04:59
What settings should I use to screen capture video for use in a PD11 project.
Would (for PAL) 25fps with a bitrate of 8000kbps be the correct setting or should I go for the highest bitrate that my capture software will permit? Looking at the settings for PAL DVD-HQ MPEG-2 in Produce, this shows a bitrate spec of 8Mbps ... the same rate, unless I am confusing different issues ... so anything faster will not improve the finished output?
Ron CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
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Carl312
Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline
[Post New] Dec 12, 2012 16:53
Quote: What settings should I use to screen capture video for use in a PD11 project.
Would (for PAL) 25fps with a bitrate of 8000kbps be the correct setting or should I go for the highest bitrate that my capture software will permit? Looking at the settings for PAL DVD-HQ MPEG-2 in Produce, this shows a bitrate spec of 8Mbps ... the same rate, unless I am confusing different issues ... so anything faster will not improve the finished output?
Ron

8000 Kbps is safe, you can go a little higher...up to 24,000 Kbps.

The higher the bit rate the larger your capture file will be. Screen capture can make really big files.

HD cameras produce video around 17,000 Kbps (17 Mbps) and up.

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RonH
Contributor Location: Norway (from Australia) Joined: Sep 05, 2011 10:13 Messages: 364 Offline
[Post New] Dec 13, 2012 04:38
Thanks for this info Carl.
I was thinking that if the bitrate of DVD HD (PD11 settings) was only 8 Mbps that it was pointless to set a higher rate for capturing from eg the screen. I can go up to around 30 Mbps but as you say, the file/s would be significant.
Ron CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
Someone famous once said: "We only have the 4th dimension of 'time' so that everything does not all happen at once"
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