capturing,effect question

[nless00]

hello and I'll thank you for taking time to read this post and maybe has been already answer. I just didn't know how to put it on the search engine and plus I had no clue where to post this questions...



I'm just a computer repair guy and I don't have much experience dealing with Video Editing,Effects,etc.. and I'm asking for this person I know he into filming abd he is a computer newbie. so this the tools he has...

P4 2.4ghz and 1gig DDR(updrade recent) and 1 nvidia fx 5500 256mb and internal Intel graphic and 1 capture made by adaptec
composite input(yellow,red,white) and 1 s-vhs input and this capture encode to mpg1/2 using mydvd and it's only able to capture with the program because they hardwire onto the drivers so can't be used with any other software beside mydvd.
other stuff:
software:
Adobe Premiere and After Effect old versions not 1.5 or 6.5
1. 128gb maxtor hard drive 7200 rpm and 8mb cache 133 ata
1. analog pansonic huge camera i think is broadcaster camera i'm not sure and use s-vhs tape to record.

I have told this dude he need more hard drive and faster and a better capture card but he is bit of a knucklehead but he are the questions he ask me... I don't know the answer too...

1. "can I just capture the certain scene from the camera that will only have special effect and than output it back onto the tape without capturing whole entire tape just apply new scene with the effect?"

so is this possible or not? because basicly he wants to capture a scene and than pass it through special effect software and output it back to the orginal source...

[anitract]

Anything is possible, but is it the best thing to do? I'm pretty sure that if his cam has the right inputs and your computer the right outputs, he could record an edited clip (the one w/ the effect on it) from his computer over the footage he wants replaced on the cam...

...But there are a number of problems with this...

1. You'd need to time it JUST RIGHT when transfering back to the tape. You go too long, you will record over other footage. You go too short, and you'll have gaps in the video. There are no second chances either...

2. Any mistake you make is permanent since you are recording over the original source.

3. Even if you are successful, the part of the tape you edited may display visible video quality differences in comparison to the rest of the video footage.

I'd really say just capture the whole tape is the best thing to do.

[nless00]

thank you anitract for your reply....



Well is cam has monitor out and audio but no firewire anything like that.

I'll print out your respond to show him his method he want to do is pain in the butt.