best stand-alone capture software

caitya

caitya

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Hi!

Which is the most advanced stand-alone capture soft for PC this time?

Could you kindly give some tipps?

Thanks!
 
dakotapod said:
Scenalyzer is pretty solid.

http://www.scenalyzer.com/
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Do you use this? It looks pretty good. And the price is pretty right. I have drop outs occasionally with Premiere Pro 1.5 and am wondering if this would solve the problem. Also, it only scans to index in 5 minutes, correct? It cannot capture in FF too can it?

Rick
 
Hi khmuse! Here we are again. I have the DV Rack, as I knew it captures only during recording ( as camera records).
 
DVrack only captures when shooting. But it's a very cool program and has much more to offer on top of the capture. I have used Scenalyzer and it works very well. BUT... I would guess the dropouts are not P Pro. Are you running a slower PC? Are you using the same puter for editing and internet? Are you running virus scan while capture?

Need some more info por favor...
 
actually, my computer is pretty fast. 2.8mhz, 1gig of ram, 2 raid harddrives.

I mean, i havent had to capture in a while but the last time (about a month ago) i had a handful of dropped frames. i wasnt sure what the gig was.

but if you have any insight as to what this could be im all ears (eyes).
 
I capture 1:30 hours of tape every 2 days with premiere pro 1.5 on a very avarage PC. I never had any dropouts related to software. I always surf the net watch videos or listen to music while it captures and never saw a glicht that was not tape related.

I did tthe "search for the best capture program out there" exercice , and franckly nothing for me comes even close to premeire's capture module.

I would try to look into another explaination for your drop outs , used tapes maybe ? Faulty RAM ? Unstable raid configuration ? Im pretty sure premiere is not the problem...
 
Vegas! Of course its a full featured program, but the pulldown options are truly phenominal. Usually, drop outs are not due to a programs fault, it may indicate that your hard drive is too fragmented; pop ups, keyloggers, and spybots running in the background; not enough disk space, etc. Tapes/quality, the way you store your tapes, etc. I would look at these before deciding that a program will solve your dropouts.
 
I'm a big fan of scenalyzer. The high speed index feature saved my bacon just last week. I had loaded 15 hours of DV onto a relatively new hard disk and it failed after two weeks. Forturnately, I had my project files backed up on another disk. Since I was already familar with the clips I wanted and had scenalyzer indexes still stored on disk, it was simply a matter of loading a tape, loading its index file in scenalyzer and telling it which clips I wanted. Since it fast forwards past the clips I don't want, it saved many hours reloading tapes and I was able to meet my deadline.

As for the dropouts, it can be a number of things. I would start by looking at the firewire port you are using on your PC. Take a look at the IRQ assignments that Windows is using and see what other devices your firewire port is sharing an IRQ with. My laptop has a firewire port on it that seems guaranteed to drop at least one frames per tape. Turned out the port is integrated with the graphics adapter. I bought a $20 PCMCIA firewire card for it and the only time I get dropouts now is when it's on the tape.

-Dan
 
dakotapod said:
DVrack only captures when shooting. But it's a very cool program and has much more to offer on top of the capture.
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You can use DVRack to capture from playback as well. Make a new project, then just hit play on the deck/camera and record in DVRack. It's as simple as that. DVRack will record everything that comes on the firewire port. Of course you wont get any automatic scene detection and such features as other capture utilities might offer you. But regular capturing is no problem.
 
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