Webcams are Dumb
The irony of the whole thing is that I produce video for broadcast all day long in my dayjob, but I have always, always had problems with stupid things like programming a VCR, and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how to use Windows Movie Maker (What do you mean, you can’t add tracks!?)
I have an old student copy of premiere, but you can’t really capture from a webcam (which, apparently drops frames as a matter of course, and Premiere doesn’t like that). I got the the point where I started digging around in Brad’s old video stuff, and he has this funny little Hi-8 with Svideo, only my Svideo jack is output only! Argh!
…And that’s why there was no comic yesterday!
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could you film on a regular camera and transfer it to digital? I forget the name of the program Dad’s got but I know it can do that, it’s the one we used to transfer the VHS to DVD…I used it to make the “I saw ET” clip…
That’s essentially what I was aiming to do with the hi8- either by taping and then capturing on playback, or just hooking it up and capturing directly to the computer. I wanted to use the svideo connection, but my jack is out-only. The camera actually has DV out on it as well as svideo and rca, and while I believe there is such a thing as a DV>USB2 cable (which is apparently what I’m going to need to use get it on my computer), I don’t have one at home.
None of this directly solves the syncing problem anyway, because it’s still a matter of making sure the project file and the capture settings jibe.