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Capture with S-Video
I’m running Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 on a brand new system. My camera is a Sony VX2000. The problem is, the firewire port on my camera is busted, so I’m having to use the S-Video(and RCA for Audio) Outputs. My computer does have a capture card with these on it, but I can’t figure out how to get Premiere to capture through these ports. I’ve searched through the user manual and it tells me all about how to capture from an Analog device, but my device is digital, I’m just using S-Video… and the things it suggests don’t work anyways. I can capture fine using the stupid ‘PowerVCR’ program that the card came with, but it stores in low quality and doesn’t give you much control… I know I should be able to do it in Premiere.
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the “analog” reference in your manual is not refering necessarily to the actual device…but rather the video output type. Your camera is a “digital” camera, however, s-video is an analog video type (versus firewire which IS digital).
Your capture card software and drivers would need to be written in such a way that windows and premiere recognize it as a video capture device. Some capture card drivers and software are proprietary and will only work with the software that came with the card.
If the capture card drivers and software are written properly, Premiere should be able to see the device as a capture device and it can be configured in premiere using the menu option Project>Project settings>capture
Analog brings with it a whole host of other problems that firewire doesn’t, including video quality loss.
My advice would be to either get the camera’s firewire port fixed (not cheap), buy a replacement camera (many people with expesive cameras will purchase very inexpensive DV cameras to use as a deck to save wear and tear on their good cameras), or purchase or rent a DV deck, decks are designed specifically for heavy shuttling through tape (where as the transports on cameras are designed more for casual use and playback).Erik
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Thanks Erik… Somehow, the idea of buying a cheap MiniDV camera simply for caturing never occured to me. And there’s no chance in hell I’m gonna spend the money to fix my current camera, so that seems like a a great option. Thanks a lot.
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