mediaguy
10-23-2008, 06:41 PM
After a lot of reading at work today I’ve managed to drop Adobe Premiere and its excruciatingly long encodes for VideoRedo and its amazingly quick editing.
A bit of background. We have an IPTV system in a UK University. We have around 80 staff with the ability to record TV using a dedicated program; we also have 80 licences for VideoRedo Plus (plus a couple of TV suite).
Staff love the two programs because they are quick and easy, however when they capture VHS tapes they normally have to a) wait for the 60 minute VHS tape to record b) spend 15 minutes editing and c) 2-3 hours encoding. I wanted to make a 60 minute tape take around 70 minutes to create from start to finish.
We all (should) know that VideoRedo works natively with MPEG2. Very few programs record in this format without buying hardware encoding (Hauppauge PVR250 for example). Our staff have WinTV Express cards and we have a few analogue to firewire cards. We needed to record those videos to MPEG2 directly.
It seems some very expensive products use MainConcept plug-ins to do native MPEG2 products. These were expensive and used to require high power computers to run. Now with Duel Core most PCs are capable.
Looking for cheaper products that included this component I found Ulead DVD MovieFactory. This program uses practically all capture cards to record in native MPEG2.
So with a $49.99 program and a cheap capture card (WinTV Express for example) or straight from a DV camera you can record your programs and immediately edit them with VideoRedo.
I hope this information is useful to someone else in my position.
A bit of background. We have an IPTV system in a UK University. We have around 80 staff with the ability to record TV using a dedicated program; we also have 80 licences for VideoRedo Plus (plus a couple of TV suite).
Staff love the two programs because they are quick and easy, however when they capture VHS tapes they normally have to a) wait for the 60 minute VHS tape to record b) spend 15 minutes editing and c) 2-3 hours encoding. I wanted to make a 60 minute tape take around 70 minutes to create from start to finish.
We all (should) know that VideoRedo works natively with MPEG2. Very few programs record in this format without buying hardware encoding (Hauppauge PVR250 for example). Our staff have WinTV Express cards and we have a few analogue to firewire cards. We needed to record those videos to MPEG2 directly.
It seems some very expensive products use MainConcept plug-ins to do native MPEG2 products. These were expensive and used to require high power computers to run. Now with Duel Core most PCs are capable.
Looking for cheaper products that included this component I found Ulead DVD MovieFactory. This program uses practically all capture cards to record in native MPEG2.
So with a $49.99 program and a cheap capture card (WinTV Express for example) or straight from a DV camera you can record your programs and immediately edit them with VideoRedo.
I hope this information is useful to someone else in my position.