Hello all,
I have a PC using Windows 7. I'm using a Sony CCD-TRV66E (PAL) with something like 20 Hi8 tapes from various family events. My aim is to convert all this footage to an external drive for storage, editing and also some dvd converting.
The Sony is outputting S-Video to an AVerMedia DVD EZMaker 7 device that connects through USB to the computer. Unfortunately this camcorder lacks the Firewire interface and for now this is the system I can use. For capturing I was first using the Cyberlink PowerDirector 10 with the following settings:
AVI High Quality Profile
Video
25 fps
640x480
True Color (24 bit)
Audio
PCM 48 Khz 16 Bit Stereo
This results in really huge files like for 01:06 hrs of footage I was getting 58,2 gb!
I then tried the STOIK Capturer. Since I've read that DV-AVI is the best for compression I was using it and the results were very nice albeit for some reason there is no sound but just the sound of the camcorder itself! How can I configure that properly?
I would like to mention that I'm using a 500 GB drive and possibly it won't be enough but for now it will have to do the trick.
After this process I would do some basic editing on Premiere and then export to DV-AVI for digital storage or MPEG-2 for dvd conversion.
What settings for this btw?
Thank you very much!
I have a PC using Windows 7. I'm using a Sony CCD-TRV66E (PAL) with something like 20 Hi8 tapes from various family events. My aim is to convert all this footage to an external drive for storage, editing and also some dvd converting.
The Sony is outputting S-Video to an AVerMedia DVD EZMaker 7 device that connects through USB to the computer. Unfortunately this camcorder lacks the Firewire interface and for now this is the system I can use. For capturing I was first using the Cyberlink PowerDirector 10 with the following settings:
AVI High Quality Profile
Video
25 fps
640x480
True Color (24 bit)
Audio
PCM 48 Khz 16 Bit Stereo
This results in really huge files like for 01:06 hrs of footage I was getting 58,2 gb!
I then tried the STOIK Capturer. Since I've read that DV-AVI is the best for compression I was using it and the results were very nice albeit for some reason there is no sound but just the sound of the camcorder itself! How can I configure that properly?
I would like to mention that I'm using a 500 GB drive and possibly it won't be enough but for now it will have to do the trick.
After this process I would do some basic editing on Premiere and then export to DV-AVI for digital storage or MPEG-2 for dvd conversion.
What settings for this btw?
Thank you very much!