Capping... Adobe Premiere 6.5 vs. Scenalyzer

[NIIDeep]

Hello All,

I'm a newbie when it comes to video capture and editing. I've been trying to figure out what is the "best" way to capture analog. What I have is as follows:

- Canopus ACDV 100
- ATI 9800 AIW
- Adobe Premiere 6.5
- Thinking of getting Scenalyzer Live...

So capping with ATI MMC is not big deal. I've done some of this already. But I've been reading that Canopus was good to... So I have the h/w plugged in ready to go. Now I'm looking for a "highly recommended" way to cap analog (VHS & Hi8) and then burn to DVD. For now, I just want to focus on capping..

I would like to know if there is a quality difference between capping with Adobe Premiere vs. Scenalyzer Live using the Canopus h/w. If there is no quality difference, then is there a feature difference? Would like to welcome any insights and opinions on what to consider.

Thanks.

[NIIDeep]

BTW, if it wasn't clear.. I do plan on doing heavy editing with the video. So it's not just a straight conversion from analog to DVD.

[LNielsen76]

There is a huge price difference between ScenalyzerLive and Premiere for a reason... Is it because of quality? I really can't tell you. I don't use Premiere but I do know that Premiere offers a lot more for editing video than Scenalyzer. The drawback for offering more in an editing package is that Premiere also uses a lot more resources. I find this inconsequential for the reason that during transfer, other programs should not be running anyway as a means to avoid frame dropping. So I guess the real question is quality. If the quality is better or like to that of Scenalyzer than I see no reason why you should get it; you already have an editing and capturing application in Premiere.

Even if the capturing may or may not be slightly better in Scenalyzer, you are most likely to run the a/v stream through some Synth script filters. So I guess in the end, might as well stick with what you have. For those who have nothing...Scenalyzer, VirtualDubMod, and AVSynth.

My two scents.

[VideoTechMan]

Hello All,

I'm a newbie when it comes to video capture and editing. I've been trying to figure out what is the "best" way to capture analog. What I have is as follows:

- Canopus ACDV 100
- ATI 9800 AIW
- Adobe Premiere 6.5
- Thinking of getting Scenalyzer Live...

So capping with ATI MMC is not big deal. I've done some of this already. But I've been reading that Canopus was good to... So I have the h/w plugged in ready to go. Now I'm looking for a "highly recommended" way to cap analog (VHS & Hi8) and then burn to DVD. For now, I just want to focus on capping..

I would like to know if there is a quality difference between capping with Adobe Premiere vs. Scenalyzer Live using the Canopus h/w. If there is no quality difference, then is there a feature difference? Would like to welcome any insights and opinions on what to consider.

Thanks.

There is no quality difference when using Premeire vs. Scenelyzer, both can capture DV and since DV is at a fixed rate of 3.6MB/sec, the only ting you have to worry about is how fast your hard drives are.

Since you are doing analog captures with VHS and Hi8 you may want to see about getting a TBC (Time Base Corrector) to help cleanup the video, especially if your analog sources are quite old as to help against frame-dropping. Scenelyzer is only a capture program and does nothing else but that. Using the Canopus to do the actual conversion will help keep the audio in sync with the video so that it wont drift over time, especially if you are doing long VHS captures. You can use either Scenelyzer or Premeire to capture to the hard drive...the end result will be a DV file stream anyway.

VTM