Firewire Cards and Slo-Mo Action

[Director77]

A quick question about Firewire Capture Cards. After capturing from a DV Camcorder and editing on the computer, can you hook up the VCR to your firewire card and record your edited movie to videotape? If not, you would have to send the edited movie back to the camcorder and then somehow hook it up to the VCR.(how would you go about doing this)

Secondly, does Adobe Premiere have a way to slow playback speed(Slo-motion) on a shot? Some slo-mo action or dramatic death sence would be cool.

Finally and most importantly, what Firewire capture cards can you recommend? I have been looking all over the net to find a really good Firewire card (preferably with Adobe Premiere 6.0) at a reasonable price (below $400).

Thanks in advance for any answers you can provide.

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Director77

[deanl]

Hey there.

Your not going to be able to connect a standard firewire card to your vcr. Your going to have to find a card with analog outputs. You could just send your finished movie back to your camera via firewire then to vhs via the cameras analog outputs. If your computer came with dvd software there is a big chance it came with some kind of tv out on the graphics card. No on some of these cards your can just connect strait to your video select tv out and click full screen playback in premier. On others you will need to render the entire movie and play it via your dvd software.

Premiere has options to slow down and speed up your footage. Sometimes it looks good sometimes it looks bad.

Despin out.

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[Mods]

Just dont slow it down anymore than like, 50%, otherwise it gets jumpy and pants.


Mods

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Mark "Mods" Lovegrove

[eddie]

check out the Adobe Premier Technical forum
on their website www.adobe.com
for info on making smooth slo motion.

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[Jimsimm]

I recomend the Matrox RT2500...it works v.well with Prem 6.0...I have had no problem with it so far!nice!..and you can capture analogue+firewire...and you can edit in MpEG-2.Its by far the best I have used. I did have a DC10-cRAP!then had a DC30-better but this is by far the best!

-J-W-!

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[sleezebag]

There are some combo Mini DV and VHS VCRs with firewire built in, but they are pretty expensive.

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[sn-films]

Speaking of slow-motion... a few weeks ago someone posted a link to a utility that allows you to slow down video clips smoothly (the software claims to interpolate "missing" frames). Unfortunately, I've lost the link. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please re-post.

Thanks.

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[Davis]

Since you'd be putting the movie back onto your camcorder, which you said was digital, all you have to do is connect it's line out to the line in on a VCR, and you wouldn't lose any quality that you'd get plugging your computer into a VCR, since it's still stored digitally on your camcorder. It should have came with a line out cord, one end that goes into the camera should have one plug, and the other end should be the red, yellow, and white plugs.

As for a good firecard at less then $400, I should hope so! I got mine for $80 bucks, and I suspect I paid too much because I just went over to Circuit City. (I was too impatient to price compare online and order the best one and wait two weeks for it to get here.)

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[LAmind]

If you have a DV, how do you put the edited footage BACK onto DV. What's the process?

-Ivan

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[Davis]

Basically you have the firewire line from your computer to your camera, you tell Premiere you want to record the project onto tape, and hit the record button on your camera and play in Premiere.

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