Posted by hackerjosh on 12/05/05 05:45

Rôgêr wrote:
> Well, he might need all that but it doesn't need to be in the video
> card. My point is that even with an AIW card in my machine, I never use
> those capabilities because I run the analog signal from the
> VCR/Hi8/whatever into my Canon camera and pass it through the firewire
> port directly into my capture program as a digital stream. I can and
> have done exactly the same level of quality captures with computers with
> plain jane integrated video. Don't mean to be argumentative, you have
> your way of doing things, I have mine.

Yeah, that's how I have done it. I had to take someone's Hi8 camera of
a wedding and ultimately digitize it. The only problem is that the
Canon GL1 I was using would not record straight through firewire to
Premiere. I had to record it to a MiniDV tape first. I can plug the
camera into firewire and record straight to the camera when using it on
camera mode. BUT, If I run the A/V from the Hi8 cam into the GL1, I
have to record it to the tape and then play the tape into the computer.

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