ULEAD STUDIO version 6.0 and sound capture

[Speedpuppy]

this is a new one to me...

running ulead studio 6.0 mostly for editing but decided to goof with some capturing (usually i use the ati program for it) and have the ati all in wonder board.

in the capture mode i see the input (cable) tv show and i hear it fine
click on the red record button it records video but no audio.

went to WINDOWS XP audion options ensured all boxes were uncheck inthe MUTE box.. they were..

whats confusing is i have sound in the "preview mode" but not while actually capturing..

thanks in advance

[Mavrick]

I've had this happen too...

Your right, if you look at Windows nothing is muted. However if you look at the capture settings, like capture resolution, input source, etc... You will see Audio Options... look there and scroll down to line in and make sure it's enabled. Also from here you might see that line in is now muted...

Don't know why it does this... but I double check this every time I capture...

[Speedpuppy]

thanks stumbled accross the setting i needed

under CAPTURE then PROPERTIES then under audio its

LINE IN from a drop down menu ensuring that that is checked then the audio was captured

thanks for the quick response

[pepegot1]

Use your sound card's mixer and set it to "Line In" then you should be OK for capture.

[ScarboroughGuy]

I too am suffering from this problem so last night after 4 hours, I gave up and went to bed. Now I'm up again hoping someone can help me with this problem.

I have Ulead VideoStudio 6 open. I am in the "Capture" section and I am watching the television program with sound. There are three choices for "format" - AVI MPEG and DV. If I choose AVI or DV - then begin capturing - then stop capturing and replay what I captured, I have video and audio. If I choose MPEG I end up only with video and no sound. SO,
I go to "Options" then "Capture Options" and "video capture" is checked but "audio capture" is greyed out (along with "force to use preview mode"). When under AVI or DV the audio capture is not greyed out.

If I go to "Options" "MPEG Settings" it gives you the choice of "Special settings" where you can set up either MPEG 1 or MPEG 2 at 320, 352 or 720 etc. . . . in size. There is also an audio tab there and when I click on it the audio choices are greyed out UNLESS I go and change the special setting to "User defined 1" and then the "MODE" "Audio Bit Rate" and "Sampe Rate" are no longer greyed out. But it doesn't matter because when I return to "Options" "Capture Options" the audio capture is still greyed out. (I was trying to be as detailed as possible here).


HELP ME PLEASE IF YOU CAN.

Thank you.

[RPM]

I've reinstalled VideoStudio 6 about fifty times. I now have a computer dedicated to video and nothing else. Even on that machine, I had to wipe the hard drive, reinstall Windows XP, and start over, but since then (couple of months) all my programs are working.

Ulead's response to every problem is "reinstall Ulead VS." This works sometimes, but not always. I'm not sure what causes the problem -- bad DirectX, altered codecs, something. Having Pinnacle, Premiere, and Ulead on the same machine made everything malfunction, for example.

I would start by completely removing Ulead and reinstalling it, and see if it is just a default settings problem. It is a quirky program.

By the way, I have quit capturing MPEG. The quality seems poor. I capture AVI and then process overnight. I am testing TMPEG against Ulead VS6 - Ulead is faster even at an average 8Mb data rate, if the quality is good I'll stay with that.

Final word of advice: never use Ulead VS6 to deinterlace. Final output is poor.

[ScarboroughGuy]

Yes, this was the exact advice Ulead gave me -- reinstall. However, it worked. I can now captuer MPEG with audio. Go figure. I too have Ulead and Pinnacle Studio 8 on the same computer + the capture program that came with my ATI Wonder video card. I am not as smart as you guys are though. I still don't know what deinterlacing is. I'll have to go read about it.

There is something that is puzzling to me though. I capture in Pinnacle Studio 8. The captures are LARGE (3 Gig, 4 Gig, 2 Gig etc). Yet after burning to disk they must become less than 700 MB because I can make a VCD for playing in my DVD player. What is going on? Does Pinnacle capture in AVI (LARGE) then compresses to MPEG?

Yet, I have noticed that when I capture with Ulead, it captures directly in MPEG or at least this is what I think because the files are much smaller? The only problem is that when I try to make a VCD in Ulead, the quality looks worse than a VCR tape. But when I burn from Pinnacle, the quality is excellent.

Wish I knew what the problem was with Ulead. I like Pinnacle more -- it's just that the only problem is storage space for the clips I capture. They are large! Wow.

[RPM]

I'm only a little ahead of you, I think...

VCDs are MPEG1 format, which is very compressed relative to a DV AVI file, which is 13GB per hour. You should be able to see this quality difference when playing on your computer.

If you number the rows of a dots on a TV screen 1,2,3,..., TV screens show rows 1 then 3 then 5,..and then show rows 2,4,6,.... This is called "interlaced." Computer monitors, in contrast, aren't interlaced; they show rows 1 then 2 then 3. With motion, there is no perfect way to turn one into the other. (An issue: some signals are "top first", meaning odd rows first; others are bottom first, meaning even rows first. Field A in Ulead is top first, which is what DV is. Analog sources tend to be bottom first.)

DV is interlaced.

Ulead can capture to MPEG, but it does so by converting the AVI file on the fly to an MPEG file. (At the capture screen, you can select format.) The default is noninterlaced, which means you are converting the interlaced signal to a noninterlaced signal. That doesn't matter for VCD, which is noninterlaced, but does for DVD, which is interlaced for best quality.

If you like pinnacle, I think you can use it to convert the clips to a more manageable size. I suggest MPEG2 files which run between 2 and 4 GB per hour, depending on quality. You'll want to do some reading first, of course.