Software questions.

[Generic Skinhead]

Thanks eddie. any ideas where I could get a reasnobly priced firewire card? Im not havin much luck on the google... [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img]

[eddie]

hi there

www.maplin.co.uk,

IEEE 1394, firewire dual port card bus.
code number ZT18U

Maybe thats too expensive. Thats the kind of thing though. Im sure you can get them cheaper.

[Generic Skinhead]

Thanks eddie, thats exactly what I'm looking for! Just one more question, what kind of video capture card do I need with that?

[eddie]

hello

I think if you choose carefully, you dont need a capture card.
most of these PCMCIA firewire cards come with editing software (does this one? cant recall) which suggests to me they include the software to write avi files (or whatever) straight to disk.
Perhaps its all hardware, Im not certain.
Since its digital you dont need to convert video signal into dv.
If your camcorder has DV out, it'll write this straight throught the firewire onto the Hard drive.

Im a bit hazy on this, perhaps someone else will know. But Im pretty sure youre DV out port through firewire, will write avi's straight to disk.

Ive only ever done this using Imovie on a MAC, this doesnt have specific video capture hardware, only the Imovie software as far as I know.

Perhaps a bit of google research on DV formats, or a bloke in a shop will help out.

Good luck.

[sn-films]

Well, to address music, I use Sonic Foundry's ACID Pro. Its quick, stable and easy to use. A nice perk is that you can add your movie in as a track and play back/preview while you're authoring the soundtrack. Its pretty slick!

[tim.callaghan]

All you need is a PCMCIA firewire card to transfer the DV stream on tape to your hard drive.

No DV cameras come with USB1 connection for downloading DV, if they have a USB port then all it is for is downloading stills.

Once it has been tranferred you can then edit the footage, simple.

Just like iMovie on a Mac

Tim

[Generic Skinhead]

Thanks guys. I ended up getting a Belkin firewire cardbus adaptor. I got videowave 3 and photosuite 3 with it, but haven't even installed them.

Sn-films-im not sure about acid. You get the program and then you have to spend hours trawling the net for free loops...most of which are kinda naff. Don't get me wrong its a nice program, but it seems like you gotta have a huge audio library in place first. I just want to knock up a simple score.

Also is 3d studio max as complicated as it looks? that yoke scares the bejesus outta me.

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[deanl]

Hey there.

"3d studio max as complicated as it looks?"

No, its about ten more complicated than it looks. But its amazing what can be done with it.

Despin out.

[Generic Skinhead]

Yeah, you're a bit of a whizz though. Question is, where did you learn? It doesnt seem to be a program you can figure out by just mmessing around...which is my preferred method. Any tips?

[deanl]

Hey there.

My very basic knolledge of the program comes from just "messing about". You have to just keep at it. The manual aint that great. I had a look through it (its like the chuffin yellow pages by the way) and it gave me a headache. You best bet is to just work through the fantastic tutorials that come on the second disk. They are very good and range from total novice to some pretty complex stuff. There is also hundreds of websites with great tutorials for creating all kinds of effects.

Despin out.