[thelist] Video Capture/Hardware/Software

[Head Dragon:)]

Well the real problem is (Mac Lover digital Video Trainer at one
time) not the computer but the throughput.  A single frame grab of
640*480 NTSC video is 30 megs and each grab is 2 Frames and there are
60 Frames a second.

So do you want to store and capture full size video?  Do you want
something smaller?

There can be a steep learning curve to get this to work right.

Disc space and speed is the limiting factor even with the video cards
compression factor added in.

DVD is good but requires a machine that can handle the raw horsepower
to do the work.  CPU speed is not the only factor.  That video DVD
iMac works because it uses dedicated hardware for that purpose.  You
would be shocked at the number of PCs setting in video studios and TV
studios bought to do video capture to later be scrapped after many
frustrating months.  Then to be replaced either with dedicated
digital editing systems or a Macintosh.

Even with 1 frame per picture(starts becoming grainy) that is 900 for
one second of uncompressed video.

At 3:02 PM -0500 11/27/02, Gina K. Anderson wrote:
>Geoff,
>
>|Get an iMac, get any Firewire/iLink DV camcorder (read - any DV
>|camcorder), fire up the free iMovie software and see how easy it can
>|really be.
>

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