I have a few questions about capturing on a GeForce FX5700

[exer51]

OK. This will be somewhat of a long post as I have a few questions to address. I'll try and keep it as concise as I can.

Question 1.

As i stated in the header I have a Geforce FX5700 by Gainward. The specs are 256MB dual video in out, 400 MHZ, and the res goes up pretty damn high. It is in a 2.8 GHZ multi-thread processor computer with 1 gig of ram and a 200 gig HD. Unfortunatly i have only 1 HD which i have learned it can be bad to capture tot he drive the OS is on. It has a nice new soundblaster that was fairly expensive. So those are the specs.

OK. So 1. I have vstudio max which was the first program i put on there as i heard it was pretty good, i ended up going to premiere like a week or 2 later because v studio sucked IMO. Its not a pro quality program. Plus i've been using adobre products and the fact that it looks similar and easily is interchangable with other adobe programs made it preferable. So after i switched to premiere i was only working with DVDs and that was fine. I now am going back trying to dump some stuff from VHS. adobe won't realize i have a capture device installed. I am wondering if there is any driver or patch i need to get to make the premiere capture feature work, or if i am simply out of luck and will ahve to use somthing else. I am trying to capture from a GoVideo VHS/DVD deck. And no i wasn't capturing the DVDs realtime i was ripping them.

Question 2

When i do capture in vStudio i got a big white bar accross the middle of my video a few times. What is causing that? How can i make it go away? It is also pretty choppy at points. I am wondering if that is because it is converting from progressive to interlaced, or viceversa. I'm not sure what VHS is. When i say choppy i mean REALLY choppy and sometimes it will jump back a few frames and repeat them a few times. The motion just isn't acceptable.

Is that caused by something hardware? I'm thinking it must be software as my computer is pretty good and new. What could be causing the problem? It seems like it should be able to capture 720x480 just fine with the specs it has. Could the codec be to blame? I from DVD have used max quality divx and that seems fine. I'm not positive what vstudio uses. I think tis just standard mpeg1 or mpeg2 video.

Another thing is that i was reading from VHS it seems 352x480 is a good enough quality to capture at as i read the quality is less than that on VHS anyway. Would dumping that down possibly fix the problem as it would be easier to capture?

I think i had a few other things to address but i can't think of them right now. Any and all help would be MOST appreciated.

-Vaughn Kiefer

[flaninacupboard]

Try using an app called Showshifter. it's all very big and colourful, but it was the only program i could get to run reliably with my capture card.

DON'T CAPTURE IN MPEG OR DIVX! just don't. with 200gigs of hrad drive space you've no need to. use huffyuv or at a push Mjpeg, but don't go straight to mpeg or divx, you'll drop frames (as you were seeing with choppy motion) and won't likely end up with something DVD-compliant anyway.

[skeg64]

Hi,
I've got a similar setup to yours, only my video card is an MSI FX5900XT. I had the same problem getting the capture window to work at first. The solution to my problem (it may not be the same as yours) was to disable the second display that I had running on my machine (it was my TV connected to the S-video out). So if you've got a second display running try disabling that. My video card has a break-out box with s-video in/out and composite video in/out plugs on it, so you can only use one at a time. Also, try downloading the latest WDM and nforce drivers from nvidia if you haven't already.

As for the second question, I've been having the exact same problem, and I don't know what's causing it either. The white bar seems to go on and off at random times. I'm thinking it is the capture drivers. It's weird because I captured a full commercial VHS release with no problems, then I tried to get a home-recorded VHS but got this white bar that covers about 1/2 the picture. It's not the programs or the file format you are capturing with. I've tried 3 different capture programs and get the same problem. So it's something to do with either the card itself or the drivers. Also, reducing the size of the capture does not help, I've been trying with 320x240 and it still does it. If anyone can help I'd like to know what it is too.