Posted by Richard Crowley on 09/01/06 11:20

"Doc" wrote ...
> 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?

Not all video is DV.

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