[Kdenlive-devel] capturing

[Reinhard Amersberger]

kdenlive-devel at lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 24.03.04 16:22:59:
> 
> On Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:21, Reinhard Amersberger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > it would be helpful to choose 'what' should be captured ... I mean,
> > sometimes I need all footage from the camcorder (video and audio l/r), but
> > sometimes just video only, or audio l/r only, or video and just left audio,
> > .... ah ... and sometimes just a frame.
> 
> That is not an option. audio and video are entangled in a DV frame. 

hhmm ... I don't know how avid is handling this internally, but you can do all this with avid's capture cool ...

> Also you 
> are free to discard/modify any audio channel later on in the editing process.


but then there will be (sometimes) a lot of unused footage remaining on harddisk, what should be avoided if possible IMHO ... although I know that harddisk capabilities are pretty cheap to purchase at the moment ;-)

just an example:
some time ago I had to capture footage from an old hi-8 camcorder having just one audio track (conversion to dv was done by an external analog2dv converter == dazzle hollywood bridge).
So why capturing an audio track with no sound?
 
> capturing a fingle frame is possible but I think we should not clutter the 
> capture window. You can always cut out a single frame in the editing process.
> 
> I would preferr to have a tape analysis to identify recordings on the tape an 
> a possibility to select some of these to 'batch capturing'. Unfortunately I 
> don't kow how to identify a new recording in fast forward play. And in normal 
> play it doesn't make sense.
> 
> Cheers, Rolf
> 


ok, tape analysis is cool, but is also very stressful for the camcorder's hardware and sometimes veeery slow (I mean the tape positioning for example), because the response time is very high.
But maybe (hopefully!!) kdenlive will later on work with high-end professional hardware (digital betacam,...) as well ;-)

so normally __it's a litle bit contrary to my statement above, but this way I can do other things during this (sometimes looong) break ;-) __ I'm capturing the whole tape in one go and apply the automatic scene detection afterwards (movie dv), or __if the software has the ability to do this__ during capture process.

So, just another suggestion, why don't you guys install avid on your machines to check out some of this features? The editing-workflow is (most of time) PRETTY HANDY and maybe you will like it too!!! 
Avid Free DV is available for download here:
http://www.avid.com/freedv/


greetings
Reinhard