ATI from start to finish??

[NervousElk]

Ok iam going insane! All I want to do is take my movie footage from the video camera into my computer through the ATI radeon all in wonder 32 and edit it in adobe premier 5 and then output it either to vcd or to video all in the higest quality possible so it looks as much like the original image on the television. But can i do it? nooooo everything is incompatable and doesnt seem to work correctly, could anyone who has any idea how to manage this on the ATI eadeon all in wonder and its software shed any light on the subject? iam going mad. thanks

[tomselina]

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On 2001-12-11 06:00:22, NervousElk wrote:
Ok iam going insane! All I want to do is take my movie footage from the video camera into my computer through the ATI radeon all in wonder 32 and edit it in adobe premier 5 and then output it either to vcd or to video all in the higest quality possible so it looks as much like the original image on the television. But can i do it? nooooo everything is incompatable and doesnt seem to work correctly, could anyone who has any idea how to manage this on the ATI eadeon all in wonder and its software shed any light on the subject? iam going mad. thanks
</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR size=1 color=black></TD></TR></TABLE> Good luck on this also because unless you have the monster of all computers, you 'll only be able to capture at VCD quality 352x240 at 30fps w/o dropping alot of frames. I have a 1.2ghz Athlon and trying to capture MPEG2 at higher resolution and I'm dropping 30%+ frames! So, here's what I'm doing now. Find another video card (I have the Matrox g450eTV) that will allow you to use VirtualDub (see other info elsewhere on this site), you can then import w/o dropping frames at a much higher resolution, then convert with TMPenc to SVCD (480x480), then burn with Nero. Sell that ATI P.O.S. on Ebay, and get a better card.

[mikewg]

You don't need a new video board, you just need a video wrapper like VFW so VirtualDub can read your video board. I have an ATI All in Wonder 32 and capturing using VirtualDub and AVI_IO. Capture with that, convert with TMPGEnc, burn with Nero... in my opinion, without starting over from scratch, that's about as good as you're going to get. I do it all the time and am very satisfied with the results.

[DJ_Izumi]

I'm not sure what it was they did, but I know they did it. In Windows XP/2K an up, you can't capture at anything higher then maybe 352x240 with out it going all icky sticky.

I'm having this problem too, but when I was on Windows 98/ME, I could capture at 720x480 with out a single problem, on a P3@500 64mb too, not a fast machine.
The audio gave me problems, it would drift out of synch. But that was all fixed when I upgraded to 256mb of ram.

My advice to you, is to set up a dual boot, one for Win98 and another for your main OS. Capture in Win98/ME, and then edit under other OS's. But remember, Win98/ME needs a Fat32 file system. That, and they suck. ^^

[NervousElk]

Thanks for the replys, I will give some of them a shot before look for a new card and yelling at ATI down the phone.