Will my video capture be better with firewire or dazzle 150?

1. Jay Diamond
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   Does anybody know?

   Posted 8 years ago #

2. mrvideo
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   Is the dazzle an analogue to digital converter or a firewire card? If firewire there should be no difference transferring a digital file to a hard drive.
   
   David Hurdon

   Posted 8 years ago #

3. Jay Diamond
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   It is a analoge to digital converter.

   Posted 8 years ago #

4. mrvideo
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   If your source is analogue you have what you need to digitize the content to your hard drive. A straight firewire card has to have digital input, unless it's part of a higher priced proprietary capture card such as Matrox and Canopus make. Of course you need a firewire port/card on your PC for the dazzle but I assume you already have that.
   
   David Hurdon

   Posted 8 years ago #

5. Jay Diamond
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   Thanks for the info so far.The dazzle conects to my pc via,usb 2(So would usb2 be better than firewire)also I wonder if the mpeg 2 decoder in the dazzle is better than rendering to mpeg 2 via vegas 4.0(a software I love)Thanx

   Posted 8 years ago #

6. mrvideo
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   USB2 is spec'd at a higher speed than firewire (480 mbps vs 400) but neither deliver at their upper end. I don't know of software to capture DV via USB2 but it certainly may exist - perhaps it came with your dazzle product? If you can capture this way the quality shouldn't differ from a firewire capture, although I don't know what codec you would end up with for editing. Could be Microsoft DV AVI I suppose, which would be fine. I don't know what settings are available for MPEG-2 encoding via the dazzle. Probably best to run a test with a minute or two of video, using both and making your own judgement.
   
   David Hurdon

   Posted 8 years ago #

7. Jay Diamond
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   Thank you David.

   Posted 8 years ago #

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