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Hi
I have a couple of questions and hope some experts can provide some answers.
Like many other people I want to have my old VHS video tapes transformed to
digital format. So I have connected my VHS video to the S-video input on my
Jauppauge 1300 TV card and the audio to the line input on my sound card. I am
using Windows Movie Maker as the "grapper program" as this is the only
program I have by hand capable of doing this job. I have no problems
capturing my analog video clips and the sound is also ok.
But I thnk there are some odd limitations in the Windows Movie Maker
program. Perhaps it is only because I really donø't the program I face these
limitations and hopefully there is a workaround.
1) As I want my old analog recording to be transformed to DVD format (my
intention is of course to burn some DVD'd in the end) I choose the DVD format
under configuration/video setup, i.e output size is set to 720 x 576. But
when I then get a bit further in the process (after having choosed Best
Quality for playback on my PC), I receive the message : "The video device is
currently in use". This is also the case when setting some of the other
possible output formats under configuration/video setup. When I choose the
original suggested format : 384 x 288 there is no problems.
2) Another question is regarding the output file format. I want to be able
to store the captured video in either MPEG or AVI format. Only when choosing
other format and here choose : DV-AVI (PAL) can i get an AVI file as output.
But this generated AVI file can't be read by Pinnacle, and when using Ulead
DVD Movie Factory this program crashes when trying to generate DVD files !!!
As I see it there is no ways of generating DVD's using Windows Movie Maker.
So I don't know exactly the purpose of the program if this isn't possible,
and it is not possible to handle the generated output files from the program
by other wel known programs like Pinnacle and Ulead !!!
3) Perhaps I should mention that I see the same problems as mentioned under
2) when I connect my Digital Video Camera and generate AVI files using
Windows Movie Maker. Of course there is no really problems here as I normally
use Pinnacle or Ulead to get the video from my Digital Video Camera directly.
But I just wanted to make the test anyway. And unfortunately with the same
negative result.
Hope there are some possibilities in the program I haven't found yet. So it
could handle my problems. And hope to receive some answers from the experts.
Best Regards
Lars
I have a couple of questions and hope some experts can provide some answers.
Like many other people I want to have my old VHS video tapes transformed to
digital format. So I have connected my VHS video to the S-video input on my
Jauppauge 1300 TV card and the audio to the line input on my sound card. I am
using Windows Movie Maker as the "grapper program" as this is the only
program I have by hand capable of doing this job. I have no problems
capturing my analog video clips and the sound is also ok.
But I thnk there are some odd limitations in the Windows Movie Maker
program. Perhaps it is only because I really donø't the program I face these
limitations and hopefully there is a workaround.
1) As I want my old analog recording to be transformed to DVD format (my
intention is of course to burn some DVD'd in the end) I choose the DVD format
under configuration/video setup, i.e output size is set to 720 x 576. But
when I then get a bit further in the process (after having choosed Best
Quality for playback on my PC), I receive the message : "The video device is
currently in use". This is also the case when setting some of the other
possible output formats under configuration/video setup. When I choose the
original suggested format : 384 x 288 there is no problems.
2) Another question is regarding the output file format. I want to be able
to store the captured video in either MPEG or AVI format. Only when choosing
other format and here choose : DV-AVI (PAL) can i get an AVI file as output.
But this generated AVI file can't be read by Pinnacle, and when using Ulead
DVD Movie Factory this program crashes when trying to generate DVD files !!!
As I see it there is no ways of generating DVD's using Windows Movie Maker.
So I don't know exactly the purpose of the program if this isn't possible,
and it is not possible to handle the generated output files from the program
by other wel known programs like Pinnacle and Ulead !!!
3) Perhaps I should mention that I see the same problems as mentioned under
2) when I connect my Digital Video Camera and generate AVI files using
Windows Movie Maker. Of course there is no really problems here as I normally
use Pinnacle or Ulead to get the video from my Digital Video Camera directly.
But I just wanted to make the test anyway. And unfortunately with the same
negative result.
Hope there are some possibilities in the program I haven't found yet. So it
could handle my problems. And hope to receive some answers from the experts.
Best Regards
Lars