[Bob Jacob]

I am an amateur to say the least. We sell some DVD’s buts its mainly done the pay the camera operators. I love baseball, which is the main reason I do it.

In that train of thought, I have not even looked into “genlock”, I figure its pretty high end, out of my price range, and I don’t think I could afford new cameras for that matter too. Right now we use cheap little consumer cannon HV30’s, was going to look into some of the new dslr’s but figure I needed a better switcher before spent money on that.

[Bob Jacob]

Thanks Mike! Thats exactaly what I needed to know!

We already input all our audio into a central mixer anyway (coming from cameras turned out to be a bad idea), so it shouldn’t be a problem as long as the AES converter doesn’t add too much delay.

Had a problem a few years ago, that the audio was out of sync by a 1/4 second, so when someone hit the ball you heard the “clink” of the bat later. To say the least is was embarrassing. So we started making sure the cards in out switcher were all the same type so they would all have the same delay.

[Bob Jacob]

Thanks, that clears things up. It sounds like its pretty compelling for what we do.

I guess my last question is about the h264 recording. I read on the BM site that using some software on the computer you can record. But some day, I might want to stream a broadcast as well.

Does the TVS support an hdmi output, with audio so we can feed it into a streaming computer? I have read through a few posts and I am getting the feeling that it only sends video, but I could be reading things wrong.

Once again thanks for your help.

[Bob Jacob]

I hope you will excuse my ignorance, I have never even read up on SDI, I was under the impression that SDI was standard def, and that HD-SDI was the high def version.

[Bob Jacob]

Jason, thanks for the response.

I think your are right and wrong on your answer though (mostly right though). You are 100% correct that you can’t take an uncompressed avi and turn it into a dvd in 5 minutes its just not possible. In fact it would seem to take over 2 hours to author a 1 hour dvd.

You are also correct that the intensity has not ability to record mpeg2. This has been a very disappointing surprise, but their is not really much I can do about it.

Now if I can get a good quality mpeg2 capture card (remember these are going into dvd’s so I want a dvd quality capture if I can get it), then I can capture into mpeg2. If the capture is is already in mpeg2 format then I can certainly author a dvd in 5 minutes.

I guess its all about the capture format. Any advise for a good quality mpeg2 capture card? Looks like i will be using svideo, but if their is one that can capture hdmi (from out switcher) that would be even better.

[Bob Jacob]

As to why I need dvd. We sell the dvds to parents, so it needs to be a simple easy to use format, dvd seems to fit that bill in this day and age.

Any advise on a good mpeg2 capture card? I thought the intensity pro could do this, imagine my surprise when I found it couldn’t.

I have a little startech capture dongle, cheap little thing, but it can capture to mpeg2, its just the quality is really, really bad.