Luisa Lamas wrote:
Hi list,
I need to use my patch, that I test at home with a DV camera and with a firewire connection, with a video mix table that only as RCA and Svideo output, and with this kind of connections my patch doesn´t recognize the video input ...
Is missing any information or extern ? Or, I only have a solution: to buy a analog to digital convert.
well, of course you need a video-a/d-converter; i normally use cheap ones like bt8x8 based capture-cards (about 75,-€)
seriously, you should be able to send a "dialog source" message to [pix_video] (on windoze) and get a popup where you can choose your capture-device. note furthermore, that the device has to be wdm-compliant (this is: allow 3rd-party applications to use it as a capture device): test it with other applications, like premiere. i once bought a (not so cheap) USB-video-capture-device by pinnacle which claimed to have wdm-capture-drivers. however, i could only use the shipped application to capture something (no Gem, no premiere); when i asked pinnacle what was wrong, they told me that this card will only work with their software and they were not planning to support other software or even standardized drivers (not to speak of other OSes than windoze) and that i should piss off (ok, they didn't tell me that)
mfg.ads.r IOhannes
Luisa Lamas wrote:
Thanx IOhannes,
What do you mean to " bt8x8 based capture-cards" ? Cool price, but ...
well it is just simple ordinary normal capture-cards like pinnacle's or hauppauge (they used to be based on the "brooktree 848" (or alternatively 878) (now "connexant") chipset. on linux they are supported with the bttv chipset and are most common.
What I founded ... is more cheap if it is internal (moreless what you say about 75 Euros) but if it is external is expensive (about 250 Euros and higher) from Pinnacle and Pyro. Because I have a portable PC and must carry him to the University to do my final presentation where I have the video mix table I must buy a external one. DonŽt think so ?!
yes that is the problem. i just haven't found a good external capture-card yet (but i admit, i haven't searched a lot after i bought this pinnacle-crap)
Whats incredible ... in the university exist two converters for Mac OS systems and they donŽt have cable and transformer to connect to electrical network because Mac doesnŽt need this cable, people donŽt know where are the cables so I canŽt test to see if they could work with PC and windows system, ... My Goodness.
Thank for your advice I will test ... before buy. I have the premiere installed on the pc and I carry him with me ...
i would rather test with Gem if you do tests and you want to run it with Gem ;-) (i mean, i guess you have both Gem and premiere installed on your laptop; so try out both if you get the opportunity to do so)
After a [create] [1( to render on and [open( I send an [enumerate( message and I can see the connections established if they exist. What is missing is a a/d converter ... with luck I get one.
yes; although a/d-converter is such a weird word for a capture-card (although is is of course an adc)
mfg.asd.r IOhannes
On Dec 3, 2004, at 6:35 AM, Johannes M Zmoelnig wrote:
Luisa Lamas wrote:
What I founded ... is more cheap if it is internal (moreless what you say about 75 Euros) but if it is external is expensive (about 250 Euros and higher) from Pinnacle and Pyro. Because I have a portable PC and must carry him to the University to do my final presentation where I have the video mix table I must buy a external one. Don´t think so ?!
yes that is the problem. i just haven't found a good external capture-card yet (but i admit, i haven't searched a lot after i bought this pinnacle-crap)
...I've used an external dazzle hollywood dv converter for awhile with OSX, but you still have a limit of one per firewire channel...and they seem to be pretty cheap nowadays (check ebay)...
l8r, jamie
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