From: Ben Waggoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Osprey 100-Premier Problem/Settings??
Andy,
You've hit a classic problem in digital video authoring.
I suspect you'll be unhappy with the results you get out of Indeo 3.2 -
it's an ancient CD-ROM codec with quite limited quality. Your final output
will suffer markedly in quality when using it. Alas, the Osprey card is
really a videoconferencing card, and not meant to be used for video editing
at all. Premiere 5.1c is itself capable of working around this problem by
automatically creating multiple 2GB files and stringing them together, but
only when capturing in QuickTime mode. This is transparently during
capture, so you can easily grab a two-hour clip in a single pass
Additionally, if you were using QuickTime, you could use the Photo-JPEG
codec, which gives much higher quality than Indeo 3.2, and at much lower
data rates. Osprey's native format, DirectShow, completely lacks a good
built-in capture codec. The Osprey card, of course, doesn't have QuickTime
drivers, so you can't do this with it at all.
If you have a fast machine, try capturing in Indeo 5.1 instead, with
scalability turned off and Fast Compress turned on.
Overall, though, you're unlikely to be satisfied with any solution based
around your existing hardware. There are a number of cheap cards out there
that support Premiere and QuickTime, like Pinnacle's DC line.
As for drive space, any solution you're going to find is going to eat up
at least 1MB/sec of video if you're working in a decent quality mode.
Fortunately, hard drives are cheap these days, and a simple, EIDE drive is
more than adequate for doing quarter-screen editing.
Ben Waggoner
Director of Consulting Services
Terran Interactive
Andy Covell:
> I can't find capture settings for the Osprey 100 that work well given
the 2GB
> limit and a problem I'm having with Premier. I want to capture at 320x240
> at 15
> fps, but when I do I end up with a clip that plays fine in Media Player
or the
> Premier Monitor source window, but when I drag it into the timeline the
> audio-video loses synch about 5 mins. into the clip.
>
> I've been on the phone for hours with Osprey and Adobe tech support and the
> only
> solution we've come up with is to capture at 29.97 fps with standard
> YUV9/Indeo(R)Video R3.2. Problem with that is that I end up with big files
> fast
> and it's a pain to edit so many clips together for a big piece in
addition to
> the problems of managing disk space.
>
> Are any of you able to Osprey-100 capture 320x240 to create reasonably sized
> files that can be edited in Premier and also work well with Real Producer to
> create decent quaulity 192x144 streaming video? What capture and
compression
> settings do you use?
>
> Thanks for any info or insights!
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