Re: Video equipment for online guitar lessons web-site

On Feb 23, 1:13 pm, "Richard Crowley" <rcrow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Rick Stone"  wrote...
I'm doing 16 tracks of audio at 32bit 48k with no problem,
but I know thatvideouses more bandwidth.  Guess we'll find
out when we try it?

Yeah, I do multi-track audio as well asvideo, also. But recording
multi-channel audio PLUS avideosteam (or TWO) would really
be pushing the envelope.  It may be worth experimenting if you
are recording yourself in your home studio. But for recording
live performances out in the real world (either multi-track audio,
orvideo) I rely on actual recorders, NOT on anything computer-
based.

I used to drag DATs and ADATs around to record audio at concerts, but
now just use a laptop and it works fine. Actually better than fine,
since it eliminates a step (I would have had to transfer all the audio
in real-time to my audio application, but now I save time and just go
straight to editing when I get home). Likewise my video software
seems to capture from my (as of right now single) camera in very high
quality without a hitch.

If the cameras are all Firewire, can't this be done with
software?  In audio it's easy enough to get your software
to recognize and capture from multiple sources of Firewire
input, but I haven't seen this feature invideosoftware (but
maybe I just don't know where to look?)

It is a question that has been asked here several times
before, but the only responses I've ever seen were a
recomendation for GraphEdit (which is actually avideo
software development tool, and not a mainstream end-
user application) and Mr. Heffels' recomendation for a
product that appears to be no longer sold or supported
by the vendor.  Given the problems even current products
are having keeping up with Vista drivers, older, obsolete
hardware is aging faster than ever these days.

I've tried to avoid Vista so far. Although I see all the new machines
are being sold with it pre-installed so I know I'll get suckered into
it soon. I actually had fewer problems with Windows 98 than with XP
and would still be happily using it if all my newer machines didn't
come with XP pre-installed.

Although current bandwidth doesn't allow very high
qualityvideo, I'd still like to shoot and store the material
in as high a quality as is practical.  My plan is to amass
a hundreds of these and I may want to release some of
them on DVDs (outfits like Kunaki.com make this
feasible and I won't even have to keep an inventory).  
I'm basically documenting all the material that I've
been teaching for the last 25 years.

Yes, I understand. And I agree that it is most desirable
to preserve the raw footage (videoand audio) in the
highest-quality format possible.  However simple hard-
ware and software to do this is simply not out there at
this time. My responses to you assumed that you wanted
something relatively off-the-shelf and simple to use.

OTOH, if you want to start a second career (or hobby)
developing methods of recording multi-camera, and
multi-track audio directly to your average computer,
I think you have your work cut out for you. It may
be possible, but it is likely fiddly and highly platform-
dependent, low-demand and unlikely to become a
commercial product anytime soon.

No thanks, I've already got my work cut out for me just playing and
teaching music. I've got a studio at home, so that's kept in the
technical realm, but I haven't done any programming since the early
90s (our company was still using DOS, WordPerfect 5, dBase III, and
Lotus back then!)

Maybe I should be using tape, but I know from
experience that any kind of tape is bulky, unreliable,
expensive,

Yes, I've been using tape formats since beforevideo
tape ws invented. However mini-DV tape is NOT
bulky, NOT unreliable and NOT expensive.

I see that a lot of the high-end consumer camcorders are going towards
recording directly to DVD. But I'm thinking that this HAS to be at a
loss of quality no? I find it interested because Sony is positioning
these DVD recorders at a higher price point than their high end
consumer DV recorders.

and formats change making it necessary to keep
copying it to new formats (I've got tons of ADAT
tapes here on the shelf and some may not play
anymore.  

If you have been teaching for 25 years, I would guess
that mini-DV tape will last longer than you (or I) will.

I know I should copy them to disk, but when do you
get the time?)

Start one each evening before you go to bed (or before
dinner, or before watching TV, etc.) and let it run while
you get on with your life.

That's what I do, but it still takes a lot of time. You do have to
turn the recording off after the tape has played out, and what a pain
to wind up with 8 hours of blank audio on your disk if you fall asleep
or forget.
.

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