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Gerco · 02-14-2007, 01:50 AM

Not being a video guru of any sorts, I'm struggling a little with the actual workflow, settings etc. One I get it setup It will stay that way, but the initial process is a little confusing to me.

Most of my content is on Mini DV. I need to capture it all to the HD, But capturing it it all at Raw AVI seems a little over board for me. Is there a better capture format? Maybe MOV? I need a foramt that's native to my editor (I have adobe pro6.5 on the pc and final cut pro on the mac) I'm willing to just use the final cut if thats an issue. Why is it over board to capture raw? Well, 12 gig per hour of tape and 400 plus tapes... I know garbage in garbage out yada yada, but I'm only producing for the web here. No DVD's no VHS etc. A 4 gig Mov file seems even a little large, but I could live with them if I had to. So, whats the best capture mode for my scenario? All I need to do to the captured video is add my 2257 disclaimers, watermark and do some lite edits and trims. The outputted file will be the archive file I use from now on for all my other encoding. I'm thinking Mov is the answer here... but let me move on.

Once I have a folder full of archived videos I want to be able to batch them using the episode pro, seems fairly easy, I'm reading the manual now. But, in FLV, so I need to encode multiple streams or is one enough? What's a good setting or are the defaults good enough? In the past I used WMV. My work flow looked like this...

Capture to VCD quality Mpeg, (Used an all in wonder pro for this) This gave me a so so looking video around 650 meg per hour. Then I would do simple edits in Tmpenc editor, which was VERY fast since it was native mpeg. I would then chop it up to 5 equal segments using AVI MPEG splitter. and then send it all to Windows Media Batch Encoder. (Own 3 versions of cleaner but they all seem to suck and are Very slow) I would batch encode a Low_vid name a High_vid name and a Full_vid name. (naming convention was fixed according to my MAS design) This work flow is not only time consuming but a pain to teach to anyone else... hell I have a hard time remembering where I'm at in the process half the time. So I'm looking for a simpler solution.

02-14-2007, 01:50 AM
Gerco Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2,052	Not being a video guru of any sorts, I'm struggling a little with the actual workflow, settings etc. One I get it setup It will stay that way, but the initial process is a little confusing to me. Most of my content is on Mini DV. I need to capture it all to the HD, But capturing it it all at Raw AVI seems a little over board for me. Is there a better capture format? Maybe MOV? I need a foramt that's native to my editor (I have adobe pro6.5 on the pc and final cut pro on the mac) I'm willing to just use the final cut if thats an issue. Why is it over board to capture raw? Well, 12 gig per hour of tape and 400 plus tapes... I know garbage in garbage out yada yada, but I'm only producing for the web here. No DVD's no VHS etc. A 4 gig Mov file seems even a little large, but I could live with them if I had to. So, whats the best capture mode for my scenario? All I need to do to the captured video is add my 2257 disclaimers, watermark and do some lite edits and trims. The outputted file will be the archive file I use from now on for all my other encoding. I'm thinking Mov is the answer here... but let me move on. Once I have a folder full of archived videos I want to be able to batch them using the episode pro, seems fairly easy, I'm reading the manual now. But, in FLV, so I need to encode multiple streams or is one enough? What's a good setting or are the defaults good enough? In the past I used WMV. My work flow looked like this... Capture to VCD quality Mpeg, (Used an all in wonder pro for this) This gave me a so so looking video around 650 meg per hour. Then I would do simple edits in Tmpenc editor, which was VERY fast since it was native mpeg. I would then chop it up to 5 equal segments using AVI MPEG splitter. and then send it all to Windows Media Batch Encoder. (Own 3 versions of cleaner but they all seem to suck and are Very slow) I would batch encode a Low_vid name a High_vid name and a Full_vid name. (naming convention was fixed according to my MAS design) This work flow is not only time consuming but a pain to teach to anyone else... hell I have a hard time remembering where I'm at in the process half the time. So I'm looking for a simpler solution. __________________ Http://www.extremehole.com ** CLOSED ** 400 HOURS of exclusive custom extreme content, already on external HD in Raw DV ready to encode. over 150,000 exclusive images and more.