Capture Speed

[DrivenByDemons]

I have a 1394 card with my sony DV cam . My Buddy has the same setup and he captures his video ~ 2 times normal speed. I can only get mine to do realtime. Am I dreaming or is there a way to capture video at faster than realtime? I looked in the forum but couldn't find an answer....

Using Ulead Vid Studio on an Athlon XP 1700+ with 512meg

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[dphirschler]

What's the point of capturing 2x real time? I fail to see how that could improve your quality.


Darryl

[AdamB]

I do not see how you could capture faster than realtime from a camcorder. The sony has to play the tape.

[DrivenByDemons]

I'm not trying to improve quality, I want to capture faster. I'm not using an analog capture device, I have a 1394 card so I should be able to capture up to the bandwidth limit of the 1394 card right??? Mabye you don't understand what I am saying. There is no A/D conversion going on here.....

[THE RIPPER]

i don't know where you heard that you could capture faster than realtime,but their a idiot.

[DrivenByDemons]

Ok,

Say I want to rip an audio CD. I don't have to do it @ 1x, I just use DAE and extract the tracks a fast as my CD-ROM can go. It's just a digital copy of what I have on the CD. Are you saying my DV cam's transport or my IEEE1394 connection is the bottleneck and I am stuck doing what I would consider a DVE (Digital Video Extraction) @ 1x??? I get the impression you guys think I am doing an ANALOG capture, which I am not. Hey mabye I'm the idiot but I think I should be able to do what I am describing.

Driven

[dphirschler]

Okay, I misunderstood you. I was thinking you were capturing 60 frames per second. Thus, a 30 fps show would've had duplicate frames.

But what you are saying is that you can actually bring the video onto your harddrive at 2x speed. Since I do not own a digital camcorder, I cannot say weather it is possible. However, it doesn't seem like it would be possible unless your camcorder could play the tape at 2x speed while sending the data through the firewire. Perhaps your friend's camcorder was the kind with the miniature recordable disc inside. Then that would seem feasable to send the data through at 2x. But it doesn't sound right doing it with just a straight dv camcorder.


Darryl