<<If I'm not mistaken, he is referring to capturing what the
camera 'sees' rather than what has been recorded on tape. In other
words, bypassing using the tape at all. There are tools that do this
very well, like DVRack from Serious Magic, but Premiere can do a
decent job too - I just tested it.
The trick is to set the camera to camcorder mode, not VCR mode, and
open the capture screen (F5 in Pro). Then as long as you can see a
live image in the preview monitor, just click on record, and away you
go.>>
----Ahhhh, "I see, said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and
SAW"....
I am truly sorry for not understanding....yes the truth is that some
programs do a better job than others and DVRack is probably one of the best,
but almost any edit proggie worth its salt will do the job in at least a
basic fashion, because frankly most of them don't know or care as long as
the source complies to IEEE1394 standards.
I use a miniDV source deck that happens to have a built in tuner and I also
have my switcher tied to the auxiliary S-VHS input.
Therefore whenever I fire up one of my edit programs, if the deck is turned
on, and one or both of the sources are active, they show up in the capture
window. It could be CNN or it could be the feed from the switcher, depends
on what I might have been doing before I started the edit program.
I also make use of the free Microsoft WM9 capture utility which does great
AVI captures all by itself and it also lists all of my sources as valid, the
switcher, one of my miniDV camcorders (if it is connected directly), the
tuner on the deck, or even the ADS Pyro AV Link.
I think the day is coming where we might see camcorders with firmware
sophisticated enough to support the hot swap of any storage device that can
deal with the data throughput. It will just be a matter of how the user
wishes to configure the device. Meantime the direct live cap idea is always
a great one but I still advise popping in a tape just as a backup!
JeffH
Ch.S.
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