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Old 05-13-2003, 08:33 AM   #1
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video audio capture

ok, I have a capture card in my PC and I am looking for the best options to for the best quality.

I have Ulead VideoStudio 6 SE DVD.
Mpeg 1, 2 or AVI?

what Audio Bit rate should I use 192/224?

This is stuff I am planning on keeping and making VCDs with.
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I would use Mpeg 2 because the videos seem to come out smaller save you hard drive space. When I used AVI oh man like a 2min video was like 300mb. For Audio I use 224 but some people like 192 because the texture of the sound.
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Byte, what card is it? what kind of audio input does it have? how much was it? i plan on using one for PS2 gaming and i want a nice audio input. thanks.
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I use mpeg2 to make SVCDs and I love the quality.
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The absolute best quality would be capturing uncompressed AVIs and running them through an MPEG encoder after, but you'd need alot of space obviously .

If you don't have the space for it, capture at MPEG-2 with the highest quality settings the software will allow. If you need to shrink it after that can be done without losing much quality.

Same with the audio, compressing and remixing audio is pretty easy and quick to do, you want your capture to be as high quality as possible, compress it after.
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I have about 60 GB's I should be able to get it in AVI, i will practive tomorrow on my day off. as long as I can get an hour of video at very high Q I will be happy.

this is the card I got, cost about 55 bucks

TV LEADTEK WINFAST "DELUXE" TV2000XP TV/FM MULTIMEDIA CARD

I like it, not totally sure about the quality yet as I am still learning how to use it and all.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...rtby=14&order=1
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After you've got an AVI you can encode it with TMPGENC which will give much better results than capturing directly to MPEG-2, although it's gonna take longer.

Depends on how picky you are about the quality.
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