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What is the purpose of a capture card?
I am curious as to what a capture card does. I have always used a deck or a video camera to get my footage into FCP, and I read about these cards such as the AJA card that is blinking right next to my text right now in an add, and I wonder what do they do?
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Capture footage from sources that aren’t capturable via firewire. DV, HDV, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO HD and XDCAM are all firewire capturable, but Digibeta, betaSP, Beta IMX, HDCAM, D5…a handful of others, aren’t. Also good to capture any of these formats as a different format, like uncompressed 8-bit or 10-bit for better control while color correcting. And you need it for outputting to tape in all the formats I mentioned…for final delivery.
Shane
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Shane, sorry to break into someone else’s post, had a few relevant questions:
i am going both ways between a Beta SP deck and a G4 PowerBook with FCE HD 3.0.
between the two i may use a Panasonic AG-DVC60, a Canon XL2, or a DataVideo DAC-15.
what are some of the pros and cons of each of these three converters, as they relate
to compression, etc. i’m not very knowledgeable about the conversion process.
i just use these three converters, they seem to work, the end product seems to look
and sound okay, and i move on. thanks. -
They all do the same thing, convert analogue video to DV. They should all give you the same quality. Just get the Keyspan serial adaptor and you might be good to go. Hmmm…if FCE does RS-422 control. Not sure about that. Tom Wolsky is the guy that knows that stuff.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net
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