30 frames per second.

cdeaton · Junior Editor Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 1

I am VERY new to video capture and in the past have used my Intel web cam to capture video, it has an RCA input jack on the back that I plug my camcorder into. If I remember correctley it does 30 frames per second and I'm looking to improve this. I would have assumed that other video cards, such as Studio AV / DV Deluxe Version 9 Video Capture & Editing, PCI from Pinnacle Systems would do this but it appears that they only capture 30 fps also. Am I missing something here? Will I get the same jerky, grainy quality from it as I do with my web cam?

Bottom line is I just want to capture video from my analog video camera in a viewable format on my computer. Any suggestion on cards would be appreciated.

Charlie.

Andydandy · Junior Editor Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 2

the standard for both digital and analog video is 30 frames per second... I have never heard of capturing by way of a web cam... but there is no reason I know of that it shouldn't work... however... you need to look to see what format the your video is being stored as... is it DV or MPEG etc?
What does your video look like when you capture using your Webcam and what is the file extension?

zacsg · Forum Admin Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 17

as Andydandy said, 30 frames per second is industry standard, you can't improve that.

i don't think the jerky grainy video is caused by the frame rate. webcam is not meant for high quality video capture, not even reasonable quality video.

bcali818 · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:21 pm Post subject:

If you are capturing through rca cables the video feed from the webcam is anolog video (lines of colors rather than 1s and 0s) rather than digital. Your frame rate is most likely around 10-12fps, low bit rate and interlaced. Try capturing at a lower frame rate and choose an AVI capture setting rather than DV if available, then once its captured deinterlace it with an editing application.