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Questions On HDV Capture
Hello everybody this is my first post. I have a Canon HV20 CC, along with Vegas 9. My editing system is a Toshiba A505-S6975. Specs: Dual Core Intel 7350 2ghz, 6 gigs DDR2 memory, 500 gig 5400 HD. I also have a Quad Core desktop system.
I just completed a Christmas family movie from my HV20. I captured in SD mode and made a DVD. When I try to capture in HDV mode the Vegas capture module says preview unavailable. I can hear sound but no preview of video. So I downloaded HDV Split. I output the captured video to a external Esata drive. Sometimes I get dropped frames and sometimes it captures OK. When I play back the captured files there are a lot of artifacts. Even if I render them out I still get artifacts.
My question is can I capture in SD and do my edits and render to HDV? I did take some SD clips and rendered them to HD just to experiment.
Can those HD clips be written to a regular DVD and played back onto a BluRay player?
Thanks, Mike
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Made some progress, put 9c on and changed IEEE device driver to IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers. I can now preview and capture HDV in Vegas. But when I see my video in the preview window I see artifacts that run across the video stream. What I see is what I capture. Even when rendered out these artifacts are there. I changed my ATI settings to no avail. Now HDV split drops frames when capturing.
Maybe my laptop does not have enough HP for HDV?
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Laptops are particularly problematic because the Ghz of the CPU is almost meaningless. A 2Ghz T9000 CPU will blow away a T7000 which will blow away a T4000 which is probably inadequate for HD editing but they are all 2Ghz CPU’s. So unless you have a top of the line CPU, you probably don’t have the HP for HD. Laptops also only have one small hard drive which also makes capturing harder because windows is swapping memory to the same drive it is trying to capture video onto.
You cannot capture DV and render HD. HD has 5x the resolution of SD. You can’t make something out of nothing.
~jr
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John, you are right, I captured with my quad core desktop and had no problems with capture or playback. So when I do a HD project it will have to be on the desktop.
Can I burn a HD project onto a regular DVD, and playback in a Blue Ray Player? Thanks
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