ATI again!

[NervousElk]

The more I read and the more i try to get something decent out of this card the more i regret buying it. This time when in vitualDUB (or premier for that matter) capture section I can manage to get a video source on my monitor but it is broken into three sections with lines and in black and white. You can just about make out what the image is supposed to be. Any ideas on what the problem could be?

thanks

[Videoconference]

Which ATI card? What is providing you signal?

[NervousElk]

Ahem, ok I have solved the problem. The cable was slightly out My problem remains that I still can not! take my mpeg2 capture from the Radeon64 card and load it into premier or even use tempeg to convert it to mpeg1 so it works. Tempeg seems to create another file, but i dont think it has done anything usefull as the file wont load in premier or virtualdub only into that ATI play centre. If there is anyone out there who has done this process do you think you could reply with the settings of each program you used to do it? all I want to do is edit a film together and this is really getting to me! should it be this awkward?

[Greg12]

what is ur cpu speed.

i've heard u gotta have a 1ghz or better processor.

[patrickm]

you can almost match TMPG SVCD quality in realtime with the Rage Theater-based capture boards (most AIW 128s, all radeons i think), but you do need about 750+ Mhz (and not a celeron 750).

but you're having a different problem. you don't have the TMPG plugin to encode MPEG-2, and premiere probably isn't doing MPEG-2 importing either. you could simply record in MPEG-1, which requires less CPU anyway. if you have more disk space and plan on editing and re-encoding, you might want to use I-frame only and a very high bitrate to capture. (MPEG-2 at I-frame only is relatively easy on the CPU too). virtualdub won't edit MPEG-2 either as far as i know.

[dmoots]

I had a problem trying to open a ATI-captured mp2 with MovieXone. Try changing the file extension to 'mpg' --the .mp2 file that ATI saves may not be standard.

[NervousElk]

thanks for the replys.

Iam using p4 500mhz 128mb memory and 40gb free hard drive.
It is really the problem of getting the ATI file to be read in other programs so i can put some sort of movie together with the best quality output i can, since it was taken on a digital camera ( i know i dont have a digital card).

[Dman65]

If you are wanting to capture and then re-encode to MPEG-I, why not try capturing use the Huffy or MJPEG codec using VidCap or VirtualDub and then encode the resulting AVI to MPEG. I think you will get better results than capturing in MPEG2 and converting to MPEG1.

[NervousElk]

thanks will try that out. Is there any programs out there such as premier (not that it does) which use MPEG2 as source files? and more specifically ATI mpeg2.