All-in-wonder

[darthshawn]

Does the all-in-wonder board work with premier?

[MatJimMood]

Yeah it works fine. I got the All-in-wonder card a few months ago. I can capture video without dropping any frames at 352 by 288 on my 500 Mhz system.

When I output to a TV it looks okay after I've stretched it out to fill the screen. It isn't brilliant though.

If you want to capture at high resolutions with the all-in-wonder you need a very powerful computer.

[stop_thief]

Yeah...I also use the same setup.


But i was wondering...I've manged to capture at 352 by 288 without apparently dropping any frames...but I can only capture at a maximum of 24fps. If I go any higher, it drops. The final output is a little choppy...almost like the movie has been animated. I don't like it.

My computer is a Pentium II 266 with 160 MB of RAM.

I purchased a new 20 gig harddrive, 7200 RPM.
When I record, I copy onto that drive, which is Drive D.
ATI is installed on an older drive, Drive C.

Does anybody have an idea as to what the problem might be? I don't think it's choppy just becasue it's at 24fps. That shouldn't affect it so drastically. Something is slowing it down physically.

[Dfilms]

Make sure you have DMA checked for your harddrive.Close all programs that's not being used(alt-ctrl-del).You may also want to check the playback options.It requires a lot of power to playback video on computers.If you were using a Firewire card and a DV or Digital-8 camera you could playback live to TV at full resolution and motion.Digital capture does not require as much power as Analog does plus there's no lost.

Daryl

But i was wondering...I've manged to capture at 352 by 288 without apparently dropping any frames...but I can only capture at a maximum of 24fps. If I go any higher, it drops. The final output is a little choppy...almost like the movie has been animated. I don't like it.

My computer is a Pentium II 266 with 160 MB of RAM.

I purchased a new 20 gig harddrive, 7200 RPM.
When I record, I copy onto that drive, which is Drive D.
ATI is installed on an older drive, Drive C.

Does anybody have an idea as to what the problem might be? I don't think it's choppy just becasue it's at 24fps. That shouldn't affect it so drastically. Something is slowing it down physically.[/B][/QUOTE]

[MatJimMood]

Stop_Thief,

Is the choppy output after getting Premiere to display the film in full screen?

I had a similar problem but got round it by getting premiere to output the movie as an avi file then stretching it to fill the screen.

Are you capturing the file as an .avi or MPEG? The avi capture is only any good at very low resolutions.

[Dfilms]

DMA stands for Direct-Memory-Access.
Goto your Device Manager Click on Disk Drives and one by one check under each drives Properties-Settings and make sure DMA is Checked.
Daryl

My closest guess is a slow harddrive?
But my harddrive is 7200 rpm and I don't think it would affect it this much...


Also, Dfilms, at the risk of sounding ignorant, what exactly is DMA?

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[MatJimMood]

Stop_Thief,

Have you tried capturing as a MPEG I know that it says you need at least a PII-300mhz but it might solve your problem.

I capture my film in MPEG-1 then in Premiere make a very rough cut of it. I take out any totally unusable takes and then output it as an avi and then edit that. This is because Premiere doesn't play MPEG smoothly, avi is a lot easier and faster to edit.

If you have tried messing around with the different settings on the all-in-wonder it and the DMA setting on your harddrive it may just be that the CPU isn't fast enough.
I had a 233Mhz computer previously but had to increase it to 500Mhz to let me capture efficiently.

Make sure you have a DMA cable connecting your harddrive otherwise you will not be using it at its fastest speed.

[stop_thief]

hey thanks...I'll give it a shot.

[stop_thief]

I do record as an .avi at 352 by 288, edit, make my final movie, then playback stretched to fullscreen.


Yes, the output is choppy after stretching.


It's not a matter of just getting a choppy playback...Once choppy, always choppy. If data isn't captured properly, data won't be displayed properly. I believe that's the issue here.
When I'm actually capturing it's jumpy(thus creating a jumpy file)...but apparently, no frames are being dropped (according to the little bar on the bottom.

I tried pre-allocating space on my harddrive but that didn't work much better and other problems surfaced.


My closest guess is a slow harddrive?
But my harddrive is 7200 rpm and I don't think it would affect it this much...


Also, Dfilms, at the risk of sounding ignorant, what exactly is DMA?