capture settings for cable TV clips

[Bill Kelly]

Well, you don’t have any deck to control when you’re capturing straight from cable, so you may as well set your device control to “Noncontrollable Device”. The capture settings are probably okay with DV NTSC 48khz. I have a similar analog to digital capture device for capturing from my DirecTV service, and the only setting that really works is DV NTSC 48khz, because that’s what the converter converts the signal to. My captured video from this process always looks really good, so it may indeed be your signal that has noise in it.

[Walter Biscardi]

Why are you capturing video from broadcast anyway? Do you own the rights to it?

The only rights you have (unless you own the project) is to watch it for your own home personal use. Editing it or distributing it in any way beyond that is illegal.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
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[Bret Williams]

[walter biscardi] “Why are you capturing video from broadcast anyway? Do you own the rights to it?”

Sheesh calm down. I guess you don’t own a tivo or VCR?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Bret Williams] “[walter biscardi] “Why are you capturing video from broadcast anyway? Do you own the rights to it?”

Sheesh calm down. I guess you don’t own a tivo or VCR?”

Capturing to a VCR or Tivo for playback is one thing. Capturing it into an editing system is another.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Bill Kelly]

I actually DO use mine as a TIVO sort of thing. Since I don’t have TIVO I just set it to Capture Now on my way out the door with a maximum of X minutes (depending on when my show starts and ends), come home, watch the show and delete. Works quite nicely, but you can’t schedule in advance. Maybe I’ll get TIVO at some point but this works for me right now.