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Originally Posted by Mark Grimm
I am a beginner desiring help please.
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Welcome to the site.
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Goal; is to design work flow to capture from Canon Gl-2 directly (in real time 2 hours in length) by PC / capture card. Capture format MPEG-2 (no editing required as defined by articles I have read dF).
The Desired Capture quality excellent.
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This will really only look good if it's from a tripod-mounted camera. Given the tethered required, I'll assuming that's the plan anyway.
You only have two real options:
(1) a hardware MPEG capture card or capture stick
(2) or one of the suggested ATI capture cards
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MPEG-2 files will have multiple functions:
1 - for projector and flat screens,
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Does this have to be compressed DVD-Video compliant video? Or better Blu-ray compliant? Or yet-higher broadcast grade? DVD-Video caps bitrate at 9.8Mbps. Blu-ray caps at 15Mbps. Broadcast is in the 15Mbps to 50Mbps range, averaging at 20-25. The more bitrate, the better it's going to look, and the better it will work as a near-lossless format.
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2 - for YouTube streaming. YouTube format I am not clear on. Each file will be two hours in length. How does this affect my format choses?
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Without a special (expensive!) network appliance, you'll need to encode for Youtube separately, non-realtime. While you can probably try to upload large MPEG-2 files to Youtube, you'd do much better to provide it a stream that falls within Youtube's H.264 encoding parameters. 640x480 MP$ H.264 @ 3Mbps works fine. If this is professional use, I'd suggest the MainConcept Reference Encoder, not a freeware. Don't use some silly $30-50 "converter" program (cheap Chinese junk).
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My Canon GL-2 camera has DV, and S-Video out. Which world serves me best?
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For this project, s-video.
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I have read that ATI and NLE storm might be good chooses?
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ATI, yes.
The Canopus DVstorm is outdated, Windows XP only, with specific older/unsupported (hard-to-find) versions of Premiere only. I would not buy a DVstorm at this point in time. I'd have a hard time using it even if it was given to me for free.
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I have the camera, old PCs XP / 1 with 1 x AGP 8x, another i5 PC win7 with nothing to do your thoughts are very welcome
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One of those should work fine. What is the CPU model and CPU speed on the older XP AGP system? It needs to be at least 1.8Ghz Intel P4 non-Celeron. Maybe an AMD systems, depending on the exact model of motherboard (no VIA motherboards!).