Capture software

[thevanzant]

We are a new church launch and we want to go tapeless to a laptop to record video of the service for posting on the website. We started just using Moviemaker that was on the laptop, but it takes an hour after the capture to render the file.

We would like a simple capture program to get the file to Premier for edit. The smaller the application the better so we can keep the laptop fairly light in CPU usage since it is our backup for Mediashout.

Any ideas?

[zactommo]

If you want to edit in premier then you'll probably want to to capture in DV avi NSTC, which is a reasonably resource heavy sort of a file format, becuase of the large file sizes. Is Mediashout unstable enough to justify a back-up machine. There should be plenty of freeware programs to capture with, just do a google search, the important think is selecting the right codec when you capture, so you've got native editing in premier, with not too much rendering.

[thevanzant]

Thanks for your quick interest and response. We will try that. Media Shout is not unstable. In my five years of using, it has never crashed during a service -- but I always have a spare. Murphy says it will crash at the worst time.

[ABHin]

media shout crashed always, but not in a service.
I think that is God's hand helping us.

or, in technical terms, its editing functions are easily crashed, but viewers are okay

[bladeaudio]

The Premiere Pro CS4 comes with a program called On Location. It is great for capturing video. I have used it since it was called DV Rack before it was bought by Adobe. If you are already using Premiere, you might want to look in to upgrading your version to get this program.

[numba1skuxx]

The easiest is use imovie to capture footage live via firewire from your source