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  • Blackmagic H.264

    Posted by Scott Francis on April 19, 2011 at 1:58 am

    Anyone use this to capture from the optical of a camera and encode bypassing internal camera compression and edit in Vegas? Wondering if this is a better format than HDV (quality wise)
    Thanks
    Scott

    Scott Francis
    Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

    Scott Francis replied 15 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Danny Hays

    April 19, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Yes. But not H.264. I have the Intensity Shuttle and capture component from a Sony HVR-A1 without a tape in it. Once you capture to tape, it’s compressed as m2t. I capture straight from the imager before the compresser. With the Media Express software that comes with the camera, I can capture 1920 x 1080 Motion JPEG avi, or uncompressed 8 and 10 bit avi but need a raid array for those two formats. With Vegas my capture choices are 8 bit YUV AVI and HD 422 .mxf. Both mxf and MJPEG look far better than the m2t via fitewire. Hope this helps, Danny Hays

  • Scott Francis

    April 19, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    I have the Intensity Pro…but I am looking for something that may be easier to use with a laptop via USB 2…thanks Danny

    Scott Francis
    Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

  • Danny Hays

    April 19, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    This is the only HD USB 2 capture device I know of.

    https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815116030

    Your camera would need component out.

  • Scott Francis

    April 19, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    No, the H.264 Pro exports to USB 2 into a computer..I need to know if the quality is better than HDV since it is bypassing that form of compression….
    Thanks for the link though!!

    Regards

    Scott Francis
    Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

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