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    Capturing Mpeg2

    Posted by Jason O’connell on April 2, 2008 at 2:30 am

    I have been capturing classical concerts to a DVD recorder for the past year. This works great because we typically don’t apply any effects to the video and the turn around time is very quick (we record one to three concerts a night). Although, I would like to be able to capture s-video straight to our computers so we can
    a) start creating an online achieve
    b) make fancier DVD menus, simple fade-in /outs effects and titles
    c) start web-streaming concerts in the future.

    I have purchased Vegas Pro and a Blackmagic Intensity Pro video card. I am looking for recommendations as to what file format I should be capturing. As uncompressed AVI is not an option (file size too big for us right now), we have been capturing to Mpeg-4 with virtualdub and then converting to Mpeg-2. Since we don’t do much post production work, I would like to find a program that captures MPeg-2 directly to cut down on the turnaround time. Can anyone recommend an Mpeg-2 capture program or codec that delivers decent video quality and will allow the use of an external sound card (LynxOne)?

    I don’t see many people asking to capture directly to mpeg2. I assume the quality is greatly reduced capturing in realtime. Is this true?

    Thank you for your advice

    David Chai replied 18 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Del Chapple

    April 2, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    whats your source? analog? Digital Rapids makes a decent Capture card that will do a whole array of file formats..

    del

    you cant hear my inner voice scream… can you..?

  • Eran Stern

    April 3, 2008 at 9:10 am

    Hey,

    You can use Metus Ingest.
    Works beautiful with Decklink.

    Read more details here:
    https://www.metus.com/Ingest/Intro.aspx

    It will allow you to capture MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV and more.
    You can even capture to 3 formats at the same time.
    I suggest to ask for a link Demo version, so you can check it yourself.

    Best,
    Eran Stern

    Eran Stern,
    http://www.sternfx.com

  • David Chai

    April 14, 2008 at 2:38 am

    How much does Metus Ingest cost? Also, how stable is it? Does it work with Decklink Extreme in HD or only in SD?

    thanks for your help,
    David Chai

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