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>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"    <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: Subject:   Further Question    RE: #5099.2 avi-files and a remark
>Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:41:56 -0600
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Greetings from France!

You need to be careful on the hard drive thing, but mainly on playback. I
have a Pinnacle Systems miroVideo DC 30 Plus that works pretty well.  Even
with the right encoding card, however, you still need to also worry about
the harddrive issue.

Our system has the fast EIDE drive that came with the Dell 450 MHz Dimension
system, It spins at 7200 RPM and works pretty well on encoding, but on
playback, when I want to encode directly onto videotape, it will go into the
standard EIDE re-calibration mode and cause the video to stop.  The problem
is more the EIDE than the spin speed.  Pinnacle has told me that we really
need a SCSI-2, also turning fast with DMA.
Cheers,

Mike Bush
Associate Professor of French and
Instructional Psychology and Technology
Brigham Young University
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http://moliere.byu.edu/digital/

-----Original Message-----
From: Study Abroad Canada [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 3:09 PM
To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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Subject: Subject: Further Question RE: #5099.2 avi-files and a remark


  What have you found is the best setup for captureing the video -

  right now I have a Super VHS video camera, and I would like to capture
some
  of the video from this format - right now I have an all-in-wonder pro
which
  is supposed to capture the video fine, but I was finding that I was losing
  frames - this was with an AMD K6-233 and a UDMA-33 hard drivespinning at
  5400 RPM's on UDMA-33.  I'll now be using it with either a K6-2 300 or 400
  and a UDMA-66  hard drive.  Before I upgrade will this be fast enough to
get
  my 30 fps. for video.

  Do you think this will be enough or will I still have some problems.  What
  else can I do to ensure high-quality output.   Do I need something like a
  Pinnacle DC-30 to manage the capture better?

  Thanks for your advice.

  Pat Davis

  Patrick Davis, General Manager
  Study Abroad Canada, Charlottetown, PEI
  T: 902-618-2379    F: 902-892-1198
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