Cheap USB capture devices.

Mike Harvey said:
I'm wondering, assuming you have the drivers installed for them, will Premiere capture from one of those $40 - $80 USB capture devices like this?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815144041
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I doubt any of the USB devices will work but the Fire Wire ones will.

I use the one at the link below.

http://www.videoguys.com/Item/PYRO+A-V+Link+Digital+Converter+Box+(Hardware+Only)/835353940514.aspx


It works great for realtime previews. Below is a link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0JoFxoOyo
 
Only problem is my laptop doesn't have firewire, and the expresscard slot doesn't work half the time so I couldn't get a firewire card.
 
Those things are made for capturing VHS movies from a VCR, not for capturing camera footage. It'll work but the composite out means that the footage will look like crap.
 
Well, here is my situation. I freelance shooting the coaches' video of matches for an MLS team with my HMC150. They need the DVD by the next morning. Right now my work flow is go home, convert everything, and run the DVD to them early the next morning. However, converting about 1h 45m of footage and burning it to DVD is taking me 4-5 hours. Granted, most of that is just the computer rendering, but I'm looking for something more efficient. Since with traffic and the place I park it takes me 30-45 minutes just to get out of the parking garage, and since the place I have to drop it off is less than only a couple of miles from me and I pass it on my way home, I'd rather find a way to spend that 45 minutes that I would normally be using sitting in my car waiting to get out of the garage sitting at my camera location building the DVD and just drop it off on the way home. Any thoughts?

I think I'll post this in the HMC150 section since this is as much a camera issue (HMC150's lack of firewire or SD) as an editing issue.
 
Premiere wont capture from a usb device BUT you could just use WMM to capture in DV and then edit that :)
 
What do they expect on the DVD ? Heavily edit footage, special chapters,that sort of stuff, or just raw footage?

I bought a $99 DVD Recorder at Walmart and use it as a backup on a few projects. Ya, only composite, but better than nothing.

In fact, on XP mode, the output from a 150 will look 99% as good as if you had rendered it on the computer and burned with Nero.

So record the match on that, you can drop a finalized disc off at the office on your way to the car. Then you go home and do an further work needed, like archiving.

I think this is about the quickest way to turn a DVD around at an event. Higher end recorders with hard drives let you create an edited master on the HDD and then you burn multiple copies.

If you don't feel like hauling the recorder with, then use playback mode and play out the card to the recorder at home.

Another twist is to take the recorded DVD, import it into an authoring package, trim it up, add your fancy menus, then re-author. On a fast system, you'll have have a finished disc much faster than file copy, transcode, edit, render, author, burn.
 
Mike Harvey said:
Well, here is my situation. I freelance shooting the coaches' video of matches for an MLS team with my HMC150. They need the DVD by the next morning. Right now my work flow is go home, convert everything, and run the DVD to them early the next morning. However, converting about 1h 45m of footage and burning it to DVD is taking me 4-5 hours. Granted, most of that is just the computer rendering, but I'm looking for something more efficient. Since with traffic and the place I park it takes me 30-45 minutes just to get out of the parking garage, and since the place I have to drop it off is less than only a couple of miles from me and I pass it on my way home, I'd rather find a way to spend that 45 minutes that I would normally be using sitting in my car waiting to get out of the garage sitting at my camera location building the DVD and just drop it off on the way home. Any thoughts?

I think I'll post this in the HMC150 section since this is as much a camera issue (HMC150's lack of firewire or SD) as an editing issue.
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Does your laptop have no SD card slot? You can just take the card from the camera and use it in the laptop.
 
This sounds like a good plan. sometimes my father borrows all my equipment to film some meetings they do and he does exactly the same thing. Instead of the hmc he uses two handycams and does live switching via a panasonic video switcher and uses the rec out with the recorder (pretty cheap these days, even the ones that come with hdd). The results are great. In your case you don't have to setup too many things, just the cam and the recorder (if you have an external lcd that would be a plus to see what it is being recorded.

WpgCameraMan said:
What do they expect on the DVD ? Heavily edit footage, special chapters,that sort of stuff, or just raw footage?

I bought a $99 DVD Recorder at Walmart and use it as a backup on a few projects. Ya, only composite, but better than nothing.

In fact, on XP mode, the output from a 150 will look 99% as good as if you had rendered it on the computer and burned with Nero.

So record the match on that, you can drop a finalized disc off at the office on your way to the car. Then you go home and do an further work needed, like archiving.

I think this is about the quickest way to turn a DVD around at an event. Higher end recorders with hard drives let you create an edited master on the HDD and then you burn multiple copies.

If you don't feel like hauling the recorder with, then use playback mode and play out the card to the recorder at home.

Another twist is to take the recorded DVD, import it into an authoring package, trim it up, add your fancy menus, then re-author. On a fast system, you'll have have a finished disc much faster than file copy, transcode, edit, render, author, burn.
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