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thanks for all the suggestions!
skully: that does sound like a good workaround, the problem i have with it is that you are then recording a compressed video (to the standalone DVD-R), editing it, and then possibly compressing it again when you burn the final copy. plus, i'm usually not sure how much compression i need when i pull things from the DVR (dependent on how much i am trying to fit on the DVD, of course), and like to save the compression for the penultimate step so that i can use as high of a bitrate as possible for the final product.
garioch: as i was saying to skully, i prefer to capture the raw AVI video, do all of my editing, and then transcode to MPG when i have a better idea of what bitrate i will need to fit it on the DVD. maybe your setup would allow for that as well?
if i am going to be buying additional hardware anyhow, i think i might rather get a video card. when i got this new setup a few months ago i had planned on getting a video card somewhere down the line. the MB i got (gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H) has onboard graphics with ATI hybrid crossfireX technology that is supposed to use the onboard graphics system in conjunction with a video card to increase both of their performance. do you know anything about that? i could really use some recommendations on what to get there if you do. feel free to e-mail me on yahoo.com (same username i am using here).
dafydd: i can't help but think of matt lucas's character on 'little britain' when i see the welsh spelling of david...are you "the only gay in the village"? lol!
i actually had someone else recommend WMM as well...though i didn't really need all of the other stuff (just trying to get the darned video into the PC...i can take it from there!). while i was looking for it, i wound up getting a hold of 'media player classic' (v 6.4.8.2) which seems to be working OK for the moment...though it deMUXes the stream into separate audio and video files which is a bit of a P.i.t.A. (have to be sure to keep the files together when moving them, after loading the video in my editor i have to go point it to the audio track, etc.)
as i said to garioch above, if i need to buy hardware anyhow i think i'd rather just get the video card i had planned on getting sometime after my MB/CPU upgrade. if you have any recommendations on a video card that will work well in conjunction with my MB, feel free to e-mail me on yahoo.
thanks again to each of you...peace and long life
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hi all,
i am trying to capture video with PD9 in win 7. i have the signal from my DVR fed into my digital camcorder which converts it from analog to digital video and then into the PC via firewire. i had a similar setup in win XP using adobe premiere pro which worked great, but the version of premiere i had will not work with win 7 and a friend of mine recommended i try using PD.
when i turn everything on, PD opens up to the capture screen, but gives me the error "the DV tape is either missing or write-protected. insert a tape or make the tape writable.". i can see the video running in what i would call the 'preview' area (upper left corner), yet when i hit the record button to try and record the video stream to a file, it comes back to the 'missing tape' error message, and will not capture anything.
i tried putting a blank tape in the camcorder to appease the missing tape gods, but then i think it is trying to record from the tape...the 'preview' window goes blank and i get another error that says "DirectVobSub: IPersistStream is no longer supported", and the whole thing craps out.
so, is there a way to record the firewire video stream from my DVR using PD9? (and if not, can someone recommend a program that can...hopefully something cheap (or better yet, freeware!) that doesn't take up nearly a gig of my hard drive!)
i am using:
power director 9.0.0.2330
win 7 (32 bit, ultimate)
canon optura 300 camcorder
ieee 1394 integrated on a gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H ver. 2.2 MB
thanks in advance for any help!!
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