How to capture TV in PC and PC in TV and Capturing problem

[raja_fj]

Hi,

This is a two part question

Part 1

I am novice in this field of capturing images or videos from various sources. But I take keen interest in Digital photography and Home video editing.

I have recorded a home video (Birthday Celebration) in my analouge camcorder.

I have created some flash animations in my PC using Macromedia and few presentation slides using Microsoft Powerpoint.

Now I need to create a Home Video CD in a professional way with the animations from PC coming in the begining as a Title followed by the video I have recorded using my video camera. I tried using a TV tuner card SSD-TV 670 and I could transfer the video onto the PC. But how would I add the title done in flash and powerpoint to this video and create a VCD or DVD.

I have heard about the VGA to TV card. But is there any one card which does the functions of TV to PC and PC to TV.

Please help.


Part 2

While doing the above transfer of video from my analouge camcorder to the PC using the above TV tuner card, I seem to have problem when the record button is pressed in the TV tuner application. The images starts to flicker and this is presumably due to the RECORDING option. Troubleshooting asks me to look at the DMA setting. I have contacted the supplier who is simulating my scneario. If anyone has encountered similar problem please help.

[daamon]

Hi raja_fj,

Welcome to the forums.

Part 1:

Head over to this site: www.digitalfaq.com - it's run by a moderator here called lordsmurf and has a lot about capturing from analogue sources to PC.

In my opinion, you're best capturing to AVI as that's easier to edit than MPEG (you're other real option).

Also, as an AVI, it's easier to add in titles to the beginning. Talking of which...

To convert your Flash to AVI, check out swf2avi - I've never used it but it sounds like it'll do what you need to do.

Then, with both bits in AVI, you can edit them together and encode to MPEG1 for VCD.

As for getting Powerpoint to AVI - I'm not sure.

If it were me, I wouldn't use Flash or Powerpoint - there are other tools that can create impressive titles and will output to AVI. BluffTitler is one...

Part 2:

Can't help as I'm not familiar with TV tuner cards. Maybe lordsmurf's site will answer your question...?

I hope that helps some. Good luck...

[reboot]

I would use swf2avi and create small avi's as titles.
Encode them to mpeg-2.
Encode your captured video to mpeg-2.
Author them separately in something like DVDLab.
I would not join the avi's and encode everything as one video. If you do that, you have no options, what you'll see is the title animation, then the video, with no menu selection in between.
Done with DVDLab, you could have alternate audio tracks, one of the party "live" and one sort of "director's commentary"-like.
You could also have various title animations, leading to different menus, for chapter selection, etc.

[raja_fj]

Thank you very much for the suggestions. I have visited the sites which you have mentioned and it seems to be very informative.