Will my questions ever end? (Help from those of you who use Adobe Premire to capture)

[Ephrum]

Alright...so I've gotten my capture's resolution exactly where I'd like it...well...almost. I have a few problems...

First there is the sound problem, I can't capture sound through my card, which sucks, but isn't really all THAT big of a deal seeing as how I put music to most of my captures anyway, and most of the time when I'm done editing, because of the music, you can't really hear the game effects anyway...but (if there's anyone who knows how...it would be helpful if you could share with me)

My newest problem...

I've gotten my picture to where I want it, but no matter what I do, Adobe will not capture a reasonable sized file...I've tried everything (changing the video size of my capture, trying to use the encoders that are there as an option in the "video" section of the capture...I've tried dissabling the audio capture (even tho it's not capturing anything anyway...figured what the hell). Anyway...my problem is that no-matter WHAT I do...in my final capture window, the options I've changed never seem to change... it always says that I'm capturing a 720x(whatever it is) .avi, and that it's uncompressed...

Also...it won't capture anything passed 4gb (which I know seems huge...but it's only the first 4 minutes of footage once I hit "record"... I can compress the file after I've captured it pretty well...but is there any way to knock down my origional captures size? I've got a lot of room on my HD, way more then what would be required to capture a nights worth of games (even at the rate above) but the freekin' program refuses to let me capture more then 4 minutes of footage at a time...


Someone who uses adobe to capture...please help me, I think I'm retarded.

[fragger1191]

My only advice would be to use the software that came with the capture card. If you can't you can try using Windows Movie Maker to capture (although it tend to have the same "no sound" problem.)

[Ephrum]

Originally Posted by fragger1191

My only advice would be to use the software that came with the capture card. If you can't you can try using Windows Movie Maker to capture (although it tend to have the same "no sound" problem.)

Pinacle doesn't work for me (which kind of sucks, it just keeps shutting down randomly whenever I try to use it, usually right after I capture, or when I try to open footage through it...) and that is the program that came with the capture card...I was using Windows Movie Maker before, and it worked great for a while, but has recently started to crap out on me, I think it's the program, and not the capture card tho, because my capture card works fine consistantly with Adobe...as far as quality picture goes.

WMM was always really iffy, I'd capture on the same settings all the time (because they usually worked) and sometimes I would get good quality (like in my montage, the colossus shots) and then most of the time it would be from ok quality, to "what the hell is even going on on the screen?!" quality.

But recently, WMM (no matter what setting I'm using) will capture about one good game for me...and then it'll just crap out on me, and capture garbage...it slows down and speeds up the video for no reason on it's own, the audio track gets knocked off so that the audio happens like, 2 seconds before it's suppose to, I get big old blotchy lines in the picture randomly...it's really annoying.

[FRAiD]

If you get the ATI TV Wonder PRO capture card I'd recommend using the "TV" function. And recording that way. Then you basically can follow TheHaloGod's tutorial. Thats my recommendation.