a silly question

[David Johnson]

It is not necessary to have a capture card or color card to edit and color grade in After Effects or Premiere Pro with professional plugins like Red Giant. You obviously need a way to get video footage into a computer to work with it in After Effects or Premiere Pro, which is the only time a capture card is needed … you can capture on another computer that does have a capture card and copy the footage to any other computer with After Effects or Premiere Pro to edit or grade.

[Areful Eeslam]

Thanks for the reply. actually im more on to hd record hence no tape involved, i’ll import directly to NLE & with the help of necessary codec i can edit. I just wasn’t sure without a capture or color card am i going to get full quality result. Someone told me that i wont get full quality output without a professional capture card so im confused.

let the verdicts come in please….

Regards

[Todd Kopriva]

David is right.

Areful, if you insist on cross-posting the same question to identical forums, please do everyone a favor and also cross-post the answers that you get so that no one wastes time answering you in one place when you’ve already gotten an answer somewhere else.

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[Todd Kopriva]

> Thanks for the reply. actually im more on to hd record hence no tape involved, i’ll import directly to NLE & with the help of necessary codec i can edit. I just wasn’t sure without a capture or color card am i going to get full quality result. Someone told me that i wont get full quality output without a professional capture card so im confused.

let the verdicts come in please….

Again: No. You don’t need a capture card to work with After Effects. A capture card has no benefit to After Effects.

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After Effects Help & Support
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[Areful Eeslam]

Thanks for the reply. I get the point now.

[Areful Eeslam]

Thanks for your reply. But your verdict on not having a capture/color card also applicable for premiere pro (if i dont require it for capture from tape), right?

Regards

[Todd Kopriva]

> But your verdict on not having a capture/color card also applicable for premiere pro (if i dont require it for capture from tape), right?

You should ask your Premiere Pro questions on the Premiere Pro forum, not the After Effects Basics forum.

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[Areful Eeslam]

Thanks for the reply Dave. In that case if i work on desktop & use a good graphics card or I/O card will it give correct calibration, what i mean to say is display/IO cards are cheaper than professional capture or color card. My work is for broadcast, so accuracy is important for me, having said that i do need an inexpensive solution. Please forgive me if i sound blunt.

Waiting for suggestions.

Regards