I have not used it for analog tapes yet, but that is my next step. I used a minidv camcorder to output firewire into my laptop that had firewire input. I spent two weeks converting about tapes, one after another.
It worked wonders. Excellent program. Works flawlessly. Have used it for years. Sadly, the developer has no plans on making this HD capable. Too bad. The all put way too many scene breaks into the file even though it's supposed to work on time code -- still cannot figure out what the problem is ScLive did without any problems.
Have not had a chance to use other features yet, but hope to do so and update the comments at that point Review by wolffr on Jun 3, Version: 4. This program has worked flawlessly for me, once I got it set up exactly the way I wanted it. This is the only reason I mark it down a little, is because I needed to tweak a couple of things before I was happy with the set-up.
The preview window makes cueing a breeze, and the start-stop timer has been very useful for capturing any day of the week. If you are considering getting a Canopus ADVC product, I would strongly recommend that you consider buying this product as the two compliment each other beautifully. At worst, use the trial version and make up your own mind. I don't think you'll be disappointed! Sometimes it captures well. Whatever happens, it always begins to stutter and start at random.
It also seems to capture in a slow slow quick quick slow manner, with odd video artefacts such as serrated edges to moving objects - especially soccer players! I chose Scenalyzer because of its independence at being able to be programmed to switch both ON and OFF when recording. Using Windows Movie Maker - which works perfectly - I often end up with Gb files after hours of recording - a lot of which is just 'fill' between the programs I want.
My system is 2. It may be disabled when installing or after installation. Free Trial version available for download and testing with usually a time limit or limited functions. No installation is required. It works on bit and bit Windows. It works only on bit Windows. It works on bit and bit Mac OS.
It works only on bit Mac OS. Be careful when you install the software and disable addons that you don't want! It may not contain the latest versions. Our hosted tools are virus and malware scanned with several antivirus programs using www. Rating Rating from All Studio9 versions e. Main restrictions of SE are that it does no motion menus and lacks some fun filters but not the cleaning filters.
A lot of info about Studio can be found at the Pinnacle Webboard section: consumer webboard , and also on Mike Shaw's pages. Meanwhile there's Studio12 but as times do change, I'm more fond of the latest Magix software meanwhile and recently added a new page on it.
But nevertheless Studio pioneered intuitive video editing intefaces. So the following may still be interesting. The user interface of Pinnacle Studio is the most intuitive I know: Studio can recognize scenes on the fly because of the time stamp information in DV data.
It assembles a storybook where each scene is represented by one thumbnail image. Then you simply drag these to the timeline as you want, trim them separately, insert transitions and play the result back to tape. The advantage is that this 'timeline' is not continuous like in other programs where you get lost trying to find seconds long scenes in hours of footage. You get a linear display of each scene by double clicking on the thumbnail image and then you can trim just this scene.
Scenes can also be repeatedly used, single frames can be used and displayed for any desired length, audio can be dubbed and mixed in etc. It's not as powerful as Premiere or Media Studio, but much more easy for beginners and in my opinion, also much more easy and useful than the Video Studio that comes bundled with most cheap cards. Meanwhile, Studio9 has been released which offers more filters and effects and therefore can better compete with 'semi-professional' programs like Premiere or Media Studio.
What is pretty crappy, that even Studio9 still is stuck with a half format preview screen. So one cant't tell if the footage is really crisp. Most peculiar, if one uses huffyuv instead of DV, the preview IS full res however ultra slow for no reason at all. There is no file size limit if you use Windows If Studio would be equipped with a frame server to directly interface with other programs, there'd be no wishes left Older versions of Studio were not very good at avoiding recompressions when saving edited material.
It would be ideal if it wouldn't decide by itself if the input is DVD compliant or not. Sometimes it recompresses MPEG2 for no reason at all and it never tells you what it is going to do. Given the limited abilities of other editing softwares in this area however, this isn't too bad. Under Windows98SE, you can only capture 18 minutes in one piece. That applies for all cards except the Canopus EZDV , which supports multiple files and even works with Windows95, but costs so much more that you could easily buy Windows for the difference very much recommended anyway , or you get ScenalyzerLive , which is much cheaper and offers capturing tricks that blow your hat off, and is fully compatible with Studio.
Studio can also do scene recognition with analog tape, by image analysis. I however recommend to get Scenalyzer Live for capturing, it is much better at this and many other tasks. A very good feature of it is to save back to tape with extra info, so you can store the entire editing project for later revisions. I have analyzed Studio's scene list. ScTrans can handle Scenalyzer output from multiple file scans. However, ScenalyzerLive is much better than the older Scenalyzer freeware, so I submitted the author my.
If you want to improve pictures with VirtualDub, using ScenalyzerLive's option to split scenes into separate files makes sense. VirtualDub has better tools for image cosmetics than most of the sophisticated video editors, and it can also merge the files afterwards, using its 'add video segment' function. Normally I run the entire DV file through VirtualDub for filtering several hints and tricks on my DVD page , but some processes like deshaking require to work on scenes separately.
Software codecs are used for display and rendering of DV files. StudioDV came with its own codec, which was decode-only and not even necessary for the StudioDV because from version 1. They can't use DirectShow codecs. So if you have a Pinnacle VfW codec on your system, leave it in place. The programs mentioned need it only to read. Under Windows98SE, an alternative could be the Adaptec codec.
However this doesn't work under Windows What also doesn't work to open files compressed with it with StudioDV and then exporting to the camera.
SVD will open the files but you would have to save to an AVI file in DV format complete recompression , open this again and then you can send to the camera but sometimes even this process gets problems. Reason unknown. The trial version will read files without restrictions but watermarks them when it writes to files.
One of the fastest and best codecs, recommended except for playback with Media Player. There at least older versions were slow and had a green shift.
If you recompress with MainConcept DV, be shure to uncheck the "fastest" option in the encoder settings! Otherwise you get crappy quality!
A web search would probably find a compiled verson. Reportedly this codec is working well. Example script:. Of course, change the name of the source file and path to your own. Under Windows98, I could achieve perfect playback with Media Player even with the Adaptec codec installed. Under Windows w. Under Windows, codecs can be changed on the fly by using. The only problem is that there is only one registry key that determines which dll is to be used. Changing this key can switch between codecs.
No reboot necessary. You can use Regedit. Reg files can be edited right click and choose edit , and they can be re-imported to the registry by double clicking on them. So you can easily make several.
One separate. The quality of the codecs may be quite different. Older NTSC versions of the Microsoft codec for example had real problems, but with newer ones all that happens is a generation loss with multiple recompression.
This generation loss can range from almost zero to visible artifacts, however the first generation is hardly visible with almost all codecs, so recompressing only once as usual with DV editing and mostly confined to transitions and titles does not constitute a major problem.
Carrying out tests over multiple generations is tedious and I've also found only a few useful test results on the web. They tested the Adaptec , Apple , and Radius codecs.
The Microsoft and the MainConcept codec are not contained in there, so I've done a multi generation test with the same image and the codec from MS DirectX8. MS DV codec generation loss. It's not a good codec but OK for 1 or 2 generations except the updrift of the yellow color seen at rhe VISA symbol that may already be visible in the 1st generation. I have also tested the codecs in DirectX8.
No reason to upgrade to DirectX8. With NTSC, it's a different story. Microsoft, 15 th generation Microsoft, 8 th generation Microsoft, 1 st generation. MainConcept DV codec generation test. This one is quite perfect. The conclusion is that there are good and bad codecs, not much in between, but that even the bad ones don't really constitute a problem if only some occsional effects are rendered. For more complex work, especially if entire films are filtered, a good codec will be of advantage.
They also feature codec test pictures. As they don't contain MainConcept and other codecs important for Windows users, here is a comparison with their DV test picture the picture was inserted as a title background and encoded with all codecs in Pinnacle Studio8. The picture contains some parts 1-line color patterns that are impossible to reproduce with normal TV sets and would at least require RGB or digital connections to get through. Huffyuv lossless encoded picture. MainConcept DV encoded Picture.
Microsoft DirectX 8. For multiple generation results, see above. Color resolution set to , which is higher than TV standard or DV This is better for interlaced video, but as found earlier, atifacts grow. This is pretty close to Huffyuv, at much lower data rates. Same as above, after 8 recompressions. The recompression ability can compete with MainConcept DV. If this is not yet enough, one could set quality to Pinnacle Studio8, default settings: Worked slowest of all and has problems with the fine color patterns no big problem with natural pictures.
TMPGEnc 2. Also best crispness and least ringing. The compression ability of CCE is also extremely good, which cannot be demonstrated by still pictures of course. The DV codecs all look a bit bad because they have a color resolution.
That means nothing for typical video application, because in an appropriate viewing distance, the human eye won't see the difference, a fact reflected in most TV standards. MJPEG and MPEG codecs can deliver more, but you can only see this with special displays computer screens, hich end beamers and if the picture is blown up beyond reason. Cameras using DV standard won't deliver that resolution anyway. This test picture delivers some interesting insights, but it is simply overdone for DV.
The differences would have been less obvious if we had not taken a lossless source but a DV source. DV Field order problem. This problem has been solved with newer software versions. Own observations and problem reports by several users have revealed that there must be compatibility issues in the way interlaced video fields are ordered or decoded, as DV stores fields into 1 frame against other video formats available.
Obviously, the captured DV shows inverted field order compared to TV captures as well as industrial DVDs, and not only that, it has inverted even and odd TV lines AND inverted sequence of field playback, so the effects compensate for still images but become apparent if something moves. It is not yet clear to me what really causes the problem. The Field order switches available in most softwares can not compensate for this problem.
They can only switch spatial or temporal. Smart Deinterlacer for VirtualDub so far is the only one that can do both see below. The effect always shows up, when DV is converted to another video format interlaced, or when another interlaced source is converted to DV and then sent to tape. The inversion compensates for mere editing and recording back to tape, so I first suspected that the Camcorders use inverse field order, but the real problem may as well be the soft DV codecs, because they interface the DV stream not only to other formats but also to MediaPlayer for playback.
So far I've tested Microsoft's and MainConcept's codec because these are the best and most frequently used ones. Even if the Camcorder codecs would be the real course of the inversion, they can't be changed any more with tens of millions already in use, so a change in the soft codecs could be the only cure for the problem.
So far I could determine that this weird behavior very often occurs, but there are cases where it does not, so the only way to determine if a certain conversion process is affected is just to try it out very carefully. Several software DVD players can deinterlace, and also my TV-out Matrox has a help file that misleads users to switch to one field with interlaced material. No wonder only a few people stumbled over the problem and even less could identify it.
As long as there is no other solution, here is a workaround: Donald Graft's Smart deinterlacer filter for VirtualDub, latest version, has more field ordering options. Just check phase shift, field swap after phase shift, disable motion processing. That does resolve it. All work well with interlaced material. Here's a screenshot of the settings:. Copyright C ; all rights reserved.
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