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Are you looking to capture HD or SD? If your camcorder has firewire, then that would be the best route. If the laptop doesnt have firewire then you can possibly get it via pcmcia/express cards.

If you have no way to do firewire then that usb solution will work, but you will be only getting SD quality video.
 
extide said:
Are you looking to capture HD or SD? If your camcorder has firewire, then that would be the best route. If the laptop doesnt have firewire then you can possibly get it via pcmcia/express cards.

If you have no way to do firewire then that usb solution will work, but you will be only getting SD quality video.
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At this point I'm only looking for SD, JUST to get it in as the event I need it for is in ~10 days. This is getting thrown on me last minute. Previously we were using Firewire, but the laptop in question doesn't have it (it's a long story involving another guy).
 
I went ahead and purchased two of these; if it doesn't have the desired affect, I'll return the items. At this point, id on't have a choice as I don't know of anyone else with a firewire equipped laptop (on top of a host of other problems).
 
extide said:
Are you looking to capture HD or SD? If your camcorder has firewire, then that would be the best route. If the laptop doesnt have firewire then you can possibly get it via pcmcia/express cards.

If you have no way to do firewire then that usb solution will work, but you will be only getting SD quality video.
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Wanted to update this a little bit. My idea didn't work; essentially there wasn't enough bandwidth on the USB bus. Ended up just taping and pulling footage (which was a huge pain in the ass, but that's another story).

I'm trying to change it up for the next event in 8 weeks.

Getting two HDMI-in cards (Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro) and running from the cam HDMI out to my desktop.
 
US 2.0 is more than enough to stream multiple BLU-RAY (about 7 to be exact) quality signals from an external drive to the PC. Camcorders have similar bitrates when using HD and have significantly lower bitrates for SD

Your best bet is to get an express card video capture board that accepts whatever video outputs your camera has.

Some cameras (like my Sony Handicam can act as webcams when attached to the PC so you could just do direct video capture that way...
 
YeuEmMaiMai said:
US 2.0 is more than enough to stream multiple BLU-RAY (about 7 to be exact) quality signals from an external drive to the PC. Camcorders have similar bitrates when using HD and have significantly lower bitrates for SD

Your best bet is to get an express card video capture board that accepts whatever video outputs your camera has.

Some cameras (like my Sony Handicam can act as webcams when attached to the PC so you could just do direct video capture that way...
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It didn't have the bandwidth to dual multiple streams.

But that turned out not to be the biggest issue, even.

The RCA out didn't work for some reason. I got HORRIBLE signal from it. It literally looked like scrambled porn.

So, I'm doing the HDMI cards. 75 feet should be more than enough.
 
^ Blu-ray requires a max of 54mbps bandwidth. USB 2 can provide about 430mbps after overhead is taken into account. To say that USB 2.0 is the limiting factor here when transferring video is foolish.. If what you said was even remotely true, you shouldn't be able to use an USB 2.0 to do anything that requires > 54mbps transfer rate.

You are going to run into issues with 75ft of HDMI cable... Good luck with that.....
 
YeuEmMaiMai said:
^ Blu-ray requires a max of 54mbps bandwidth. USB 2 can provide about 430mbps after overhead is taken into account. To say that USB 2.0 is the limiting factor here when transferring video is foolish.. If what you said was even remotely true, you shouldn't be able to use an USB 2.0 to do anything that requires > 54mbps transfer rate.

You are going to run into issues with 75ft of HDMI cable... Good luck with that.....
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Just going off what the program was telling me. Not sure exactly what it was, otherwise. I got the issue on two different computers. Either way, my original idea wouldn't have worked.

And is this because the spec limit for HDMI is 45 feet, or do you have another reason?

the cable I'm looking at is Kanexpro with a built-in booster, which seems to be a pretty good product.
 
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