Posted by Doc on 09/01/06 08:29

Exploring this mpeg capture option, is there anything to be gained by
capturing tape that was recorded in DV - Dig8 in this case - and capturing
as mpeg2 via Firewire?

Pinnacle Studio gives a max bitrate of 8200 kbits/sec which it seems to
handle fine. Under Power Director, which came along with a Turtle Beach
Video Advantage capture card, there are more options, though I don't know if
this is necessarily useful or not, the maxed out rate is apparently too much
for this P4 2.4 gig machine as I get intermittent choppiness in the
resulting video, even though it does it on a non-realtime buffered basis and
continues encoding for several minutes longer.

If there's no advantage of capturing DV as mpeg2, when or why would you use
mpeg2 capture?

Thanks.

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