Live Concert Videos - Minimums to Record? Best Video Captu..

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"Chad Maier" <chad_maier@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, I work at a large concert venue, The Canopy Club, in Urbana IL
> (www.jaytv.com). I'm very bored with shooting videos there and want
> to spice things up a bit... ........
>
> I want to set up a cheap computer that has an s-video input...
> (I certainly don't want
> to deal with the 4:1 rendering time however,

Standalone DVD recorder.
Faster + Cheaper + Easier than using a PC
you can't hardly beat that combo

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chad_maier@yahoo.com (Chad Maier) wrote:

>Hello, I work at a large concert venue, The Canopy Club, in Urbana IL
>(www.jaytv.com). I'm very bored with shooting videos there and want
>to spice things up a bit... I have a couple of digital mixers for
>output to the screens and devices, but have to use VIDEOTAPES to
>record and hand to bands.   Being sick of this, I want to use a
>computer to record shows and just burn them a DVD afterwards. I also
>work at a place that does film transfer to DVD, and we use Matrox and
>Canopus for rendering (www.filmtransfer.com), so I'm familiar with
>video editing and eagar to learn more.
>
>I want to set up a cheap computer that has an s-video input... it'll
>take the final s-video output signal from my digital mixer and record
>into Adobe Premiere. Now... my question(s) are... what minimum reqs
>do you need nowadays in terms of chip, ram, etc... I'd like to use a
>Matrox card (I definitely prefer that to Canopus...)... would you use
>that or a different video capture card such as a Pinnacle DV500 in
>order to do real-time recording? Could I get away with live realtime
>professional recording with a Matrox RT2500 or RT2000? Or would just
>a firewire or s-video -in card do just fine? (I certainly don't want
>to deal with the 4:1 rendering time however, and would prefer a Matrox
>card) I found a new card on Ebay, "All-in-1 TVDVAV Combo Video
>Capturing Card with built-in SVGA TV tuner" and an external device,
>DataVideo DAC-100; it looks like they could do the job without the
>long rendering time. But I don't know for sure. I have to be quick
>and hand the band a DVD and get money from them before they leave the
>venue.  
>
>I suppose the system minimums are based more on the capture card than
>the computer, but... I checked the Adobe and Matrox websites for
>minimums and looked through these newsgroups, and I thought I'd ask
>the experts... any advice on a good video capture card and minimums to
>record so I can just hand bands a DVD after a show?
>
>Also, what would you suggest for an external or PCMCIA card if you're
>using a laptop? Finally, what's the best program to use to actually
>rip dvds, for example, a dvd of my boss's wedding?   I heard that
>the program to rip copywritten dvds is now illegal and unavailable.
>
>Thanks for your help!!

As you use Canopus you can get the Canopus ADVC (analog to
digital/digital to ananlog) box that plugs into a firewire card.

Regards Brian