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  1. The Mustang King arcorob's Avatar
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    I just started using an ALL IN WONDER capture card with NO difficulty. The difficulty came in when I decided to edit or convert.

    I HATE ULEAD. The interface may be okay but it is a bit complex at first. MGI 4 is so so. I LIKE Microsofts included movie maker. Great interface , easy to use, I added nice stuff...etc. PROBLEM is they FORMAT everything into their WINDOWS MEDIA VIDEO and AUDIO type. And not at a very good resolution either.

    I used TPMG to convert and had several issues.

    First, at HIGH resolution WMA file to VCD, it stopped after first 5 seconds. I dropped down how I saved the Windows file and the first 34% of TPMG blazed by in 3 minutes...The rest took over 2 hours !!!! The picture was awful.

    Please , here is what I am after:
    Want an easy layout like the microsft product. Then want to be able to save as I got it, in an MPEG ! So I can burn to a VCD. I have dones this pretty succesfully (prior to edit) and love the results.

    I have a Dell 4300 P4 1.6 gig with 256 meg ram and 120 gig hard drive. Sapce is NOT an issue. Thanks in advance....

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    You are not going to be able to do what you want to do using the software mentioned.

    You are going to have to work with Ulead, or better still get Premiere. Edit, then either make the movie using your ATI codec as AVI and then encode, or direct frameserve from the timeline to TEMPENC.
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    Oh well....I kind of figured. ULEAD is not that bad, just seems overly complex. The timeline view for example. If I were a movie editor, yes, I would want every frame. But I like the way Microsoft breaks my recording into clips. Then I can take it from there which is about all I want to do.

    Will ULEAD at least maintain the original quality ? And what is the deal with TPMG ? WHy does it choke unless you feed it poorer quality to start with ? Is it my settings or is it TPMG ???

    Again..Thanks for the rply
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    You are not going to be able to do what you want to do using the software mentioned.

    You are going to have to work with Ulead, or better still get Premiere. Edit, then either make the movie using your ATI codec as AVI and then encode, or direct frameserve from the timeline to TEMPENC.
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    Ulead or Premiere can both handle clips. The trick is how you capture them. Capture in batches.

    Not having an ATI capture card I cannot comment on quality, BUT TEMPEnc can handle DV format no problem at all, and I would not call that inferior quality at all. I would suggest you review the settings you are using when encoding.
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