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Hi,
My brother-in-law wants to be able to record a piece of video via a camcorder then edit the video on his pc and then record the edited video onto VHS cassette. Does anyone have any ideas on how he might do this, including hardware/software which may be required.
Cheers
Paul
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<strong>Hi,
My brother-in-law wants to be able to record a piece of video via a camcorder then edit the video on his pc and then record the edited video onto VHS cassette. Does anyone have any ideas on how he might do this, including hardware/software which may be required.
Cheers
Paul</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">cheaply ???
wintv card , record from s vid/comp input ,,,,output gforce XXXX with tv out ,,,cheap and cheerful ,,,output pretty rotten on the record side , i have taken vidios (vhs) and put them on VCD , beware AVI files (freeware progs) are LAAAARGe , MPG are smaller ,,,but very few "freeware" progs ,,h/disk / fat limit is either 2g or 4 (cant rem now) get past it by splitting file or using xp/2k ntfs
has he/u got a vcd/dvd standalone ? burn a VCD and copy from vcd player to vcr ??????
any more help / cables etc mail me paul
FtF
OK, this depends on a lot of things.
First, what kind of quality are you looking to achieve? The higher the quality, the bigger the filesize, so I hope you have a very large hard disk... decent quality capture you are looking at about 1 gigabyte per recorded minute.
Is the camera analog or digital? Digital cameras have a firewire link of somekind.. like i-link. To use this you would need a firewire capture card and software... pinnacle make some decent ones.
Analogue cameras you would need a video capture card such as the ATI all in wonder or a card with a composite or s-video in.
Most - but not all - cards come with some form of editing software. Windows XP has a basic movie editing package too.
Exporting to the tape is relatively easy, you need a tv out - this he may already have on his video card.
And of course you need a sound card.
If quality is not your first thought, there are some usb devices that take the rca out from a camera and capture to pc too.
As I said, first thing to do is define how long the capture is going to be, what outputs are available on your camera and then go shopping!
I think he's trying to do this relatively cheaply, but I will have to ask him how long the recordins will be.
Cheers
Paul
Um... Australian prices only, convert yourself.
1 x 80gig Hard drive (he'd need it) - $270.00
1 x Creative Movie Maker kit - $299.00
1 x Geforce XX with TV Out - $199.00
That would be the cheapest way to get it done, but the TV output would be relatively dodgy.. takes some practice to get decent results..
Adobe have some really nice packages for the software side of things, and with spending a bit (read : a lot) of money, you can do some fantastic things, but a budget is really needed first dude <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
Is there an output on the MovieMaker device which allows you to record to VHS, or is this done via the tv out on the graphics card?
Cheers
Paul
Paul it depends what you buy and what software you get with it.
I would suggest a little trip down to PCWorld and have a chat with the sales guys there, get an idea of price. Now I know pcworld is not the best of computer shops, however they do bundles of stuff ready to go, it will give you an idea of price and a feel for what you want to do.
Everyone has their own opinion about what constitutes quality. You can spend as little as £100 on this or as much as £10,000.
At the end of the day, you have to make a decision on budget and the hardware. I will try and dig up some links for you, so you can see a tutorial about it. Watch this space.
Edit: <a href="http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/tutorials/923/1/" target="_blank">As promised</a>
how does he connect his camera to his telly ? is it thru a scart or a yellow lead?
paul , as i said before u can burn it onto a cd-r as a mpeg ,(vcd) or hi qlty SVCD and then copy to vhs , that will give u excellant qlty on output , most progs are freeware , also progs for converting avi to mpg are available ,,your prob is input.
go to "pc world" or maplin , tv tuner/captue cards from £29.99 ,(pcworld) ,,although maplin have one , bit dearer , but does save as mpg ,,
I,have sucsessfully copied several vcrs to VCD , for back up purposes (i,m fed up of broken tapes)
i think it would be easy to then convert from vcd back to VCR - as the VCDs are not copy protected
my outlay was £30.00 ,,,
FtF
Thanks for your help everyone, looks like I'm going to have to do a fair bit of research!!!
spotted this one at maplins , studio 10 pinnicle i think ,,,,anyway it gives a clue of disk usage ,
Description:
Pinnacle• Import your footage from your analogue camcorder
• Output to VCR or a monitor using composite or S- Video outputs
• Automatic scene detection
• Simple interface with drag & drop editing
• Add 2D & 3D transitions, sound, titles, voice overs, still images
• Hue, saturation, contrast & brightness control
• Image effects; blur, mosaic, emboss, posterise
• Fast/slow motion control
• Multiple output formats (MPEG 1 & 2, AVI, tape, Windows media, real video)
This analogue solution gives all the benefits of Studio software to anyone with an analogue camcorder with facilities to import your footage & export your final project using S-Video or composite connections. Many other output options are also available to make files for burning to CD & DVD, emailing to friends, or including in presentations.
Includes analogue PCI board for capture & output via composite or S-Video cables.
(Win 98SE, ME) (2000 & XP)
As a general guide we would recommend the following as a minimum system specification to use/install a Pinnacle product.
450mhz or faster Pentium II or equivalent
64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended)
Direct X 8.0 compatible graphics & sound board
300MB of hard disk space to install software
360MB per hour of DV video captured at preview quality (DV Only)
(4GB per 20 min of finished movie)
4GB of disc space for every 20 min of analogue video captured
Hard disc drive must be capable of at least 4MB/sec sustained throughput. (7200 RPM IDE Drives recommended).
(All SCSI & most UDMA drives will work)
CD-Rom drive
and it was £149.00
Thanks for the info Freddy, I'll look into this.
Cheers
Paul