Help with Camera, Capture, Encoding, and Saving.

[shane123]

Ok, so I need help pretty much from start to finish. Let me start out with what I currently do. First I film the sporting event to my camera with a SD card. Then copy the footage to my computer, then upload it the internet.

What I want to do: Film the event with the footage being saved to the camera as the original copy with a live feed going to my computer where it is encoded into flash. That way I have a small, internet ready file ready to be uploaded, and my video service doesn't need to take any time processing the video since it is already in .flv format. I would also like the encoder to start/stop encoding when I hit start/stop on my camera without having to click anything on the computer, just the camera.

I don't care to go Live at this time but might want the option for the future.

- Need help with picking out a camera that films in HD to a hard drive that can save at least 5 hours of HD video.
- I guess I need a capture card that can capture at least 25 fps without much quality loss.
- Computer equipment? Own a laptop (single core, 1.6, 2 gb ram), an Canopus ADVC 110.

I have a copy of Adobe's Flash Media Encoder but haven't had any success with getting the fps to be over 12-15.

[lordsmurf]

You can't do that. On-the-fly FLV would look like complete and utter shit -- not to mention I'm not readily aware of software that can do it. FLV needs a lot of processing horsepower. It needs to be encoded after the recording. Sorry.

[shane123]

Thanks for the reply and information. Could you tell me the next best option for encoding on the fly would be. Since I still want the smallest file if I upload straight to the internet after the file is on my computer, what format would my video service be able to process the fastest. Or if I decide to re-encode to flash before uploading.

I hope that made since.

[INFRATOM]

My ATI all in one can capture in WMV and MP4 including DVD and all. The smallest file is MP4 which they call it theater mode. My ATI is on my old computer and don't use it much but it worked fine. You need to check the specs on new ones but I think it's too expensive and doesn't worth it. Also windows media encoder can see the capture card but the design is so stupid. Editing software will do it too captures and can encode as whatever codec it has. FYI a quad CPU if you don't apply filters will fly through encoding. Try windows media encoder it will stream video on internet it works but as a gimmick , when you try it you'll find out what it takes to do streaming video. If you want to upload to youtube or google let them worry about conversion you just create the required MP4 file.