Is there a card that capture in mpeg and also add a logo?

[Gazorgan]

TMPG is notoriously fickle about cutting out commercials. I don't have problems the way I do it, but there's 1000's of posts about sound sync issues after the first cut.

There are dozens of realtime video insertion products. You can letterbox, resize in real time, logo, insert picture-in-picture, crossover/fade/dissolve all in real analog time. The original question was about a capture card doing it, as opposed to a 'way to do it'. You are looking at $500 up to $100,000, which seems excessive. So does 100's of hours of home movies that need a logo :P

[nicolasd]

TMPG is notoriously fickle about cutting out commercials. I don't have problems the way I do it, but there's 1000's of posts about sound sync issues after the first cut.

There are dozens of realtime video insertion products. You can letterbox, resize in real time, logo, insert picture-in-picture, crossover/fade/dissolve all in real analog time. The original question was about a capture card doing it, as opposed to a 'way to do it'. You are looking at $500 up to $100,000, which seems excessive. So does 100's of hours of home movies that need a logo :P

Actually I didn't even know the existence of "logo inserters" before this post. If you know any good logo inserters please let me know. I searched on yahoo and google and couldn't find any site that looked serious and up to date.

[fravel]

Thanks, mahinda, for your kind words. I was just trying to help. Lordsmurf is right about the PV231 being a not so new card. But if nicolasd wants to capture in mpeg1, let him do. That way he'll begin learning and then he can move to more complex authoring like dvd. I learned to make VCD's first, then I moved up to DVD's and I'm almost sure lordsmurf and others here did the same. By the way, lordsmurf is developing a nice site with very good tutorials. Give it a look.

[Cornucopia]

Ok, I thought I better put my money where my mouth is...

1st I thought I gave you a bum link.

Nope. If you search B&H on ?insert? you get too many, most false leads. But there is something: Comprehensive CVG-pip200
pip, a word which here means "picture-in-picture", which is a layering of one live video stream on top of another (albeit rectangular)--quite like the layering of a "still picture" or logo.

I also did "logo insert" or "logo insertion" on Google. Came up with:

Nanocosmos
Playbox / Airbox
Inscriber CG - FX Autoscribe
Sony's DSR-PD150 DVcamera (which can do it while recording-cool)
Vitis Technologies
Prime Image (makers of $$$ but great TBC's)
Winnov.com
Zandar Technologies
Tecnec (which sounds exactly like what you want--$529)

Most of these are more expensive, but you didn't say you wanted it for free.

You guys need to be a little more clever in web searches. (Trying to be helpful, not condescending)

Giving you a little more to mull over,
Scott

[lordsmurf]

You guys need to be a little more clever in web searches. (Trying to be helpful, not condescending)

Actually, I used + and - and * (similar to ?) in the search that I did (which I think are characters for boolean-style searches). Most of what I got was false results too, though I only spent about 2 minutes looking.

TECNEC LOGO INSERTER:
http://www.markertek.com/MTStore/product.CFM?BaseItem=LG%2D1

This other toy of theirs looks nice: http://www.tecnec.com/products/pages/isoseries.html

[nicolasd]

You guys need to be a little more clever in web searches. (Trying to be helpful, not condescending)

Actually I did find stuff but as I said, it didn't look serious....
check this one for instance

http://www.markertek.com/MTStore/product.CFM?BaseItem=LG%2D1

Not sure about you but I'm kind of hesitant to use such a crappy online store.

[lordsmurf]

crappy online store.

http://www.markertek.com/western_div.html
Looks alright, just small. And this is a real store it appears, not one ONLY online.

[nicolasd]

crappy online store.

http://www.markertek.com/western_div.html
Looks alright, just small. And this is a real store it appears, not one ONLY online.

http://www.markertek.com/MTStore/product.CFM?BaseItem=LG%2D1

check out this link...does that look serious? then scroll to the bottom and click add to cart...check out the page...then click again...can it actually look crappier than that? perhaps the company is serious but if they are, they should really work on their design...not sure if amazon.com would be that popular if they looked like that

[lordsmurf]

Just as a point of reference, take a look at this site:
http://www.arlingtoncamera.com/

This is one of the largest and most professional photography stores in Dallas-Ft Worth, selling some of the best equipment in the business at prices that are excellent (though not quite as good as B&H or the former CameraWorld).

Photographers from the Dallas Morning News, Associated Press and Ft Worth Star-Telegram buy equipment here, and that's just in the news business. They have studio equipment galore.

If I'm not getting my stuff from B&H, I'm buying it here.

The online presence is an after-thought, a convenience for regular customers mostly, as the brick-n-mortar brings in the business. The site blows to be honest.

I get the feeling that's how Markertek is.

All I'm saying is don't judge a book by it's cover.

Amazon is different in that their business model is ONLY online, and they have no stores. But yeah, if they looked like that.... no business at all.

I can see where you're coming from.