Buying New Video Station

[johnnytowers]

Hi Everyone,

 

I've been given the task to research buying a new video station for our office which will be used to:

 

i hope i use the right terms, encode, decode, transcode, deposition videos and snychronize them with their text transcripts.

 

we will be given old vhs tapes, vob files, mpeg files, avi files, etc. to encode, decode, transcode and need a good system to have emc9 work to it's potential.

 

my budget is 2000-2500 and i've gotten emails back listing alot of options, but i wanted advice from emc9 experts since we will try to continue to use emc9 vs. buying a different hardware/software package that specializes in only doing the endcoding and transcoding.

 

thanks in advance for any help

 

jt

[Jim_Hardin]

First of all, using EMC 9 is a big mistake! The product has been out of production for 9 months and counting. There won't be any updates for it so the next time MS decides you need improved, it could be the end of V9???

 

"VHS tapes": No software can import them! You must have analog to digital hardware to do this! The EMC 10 "Deluxe" package includes that hardware but several video cards do also.

 

As for the rest, you are getting lost is the terms… With the exception of VHS, all the rest of the files you mentioned are video ready and you merely need to add these files to either VideoWave (editor) or MyDVD (burning).

 

The sound track is native to these files so you don't need to do anything with it unless you are planning to falsify the videos.

 

The more details you can provide regarding use and expectations the better we can advise you.

[johnnytowers]

First of all, using EMC 9 is a big mistake! The product has been out of production for 9 months and counting. There won't be any updates for it so the next time MS decides you need improved, it could be the end of V9???

 

"VHS tapes": No software can import them! You must have analog to digital hardware to do this! The EMC 10 "Deluxe" package includes that hardware but several video cards do also.

 

As for the rest, you are getting lost is the terms… With the exception of VHS, all the rest of the files you mentioned are video ready and you merely need to add these files to either VideoWave (editor) or MyDVD (burning).

 

The sound track is native to these files so you don't need to do anything with it unless you are planning to falsify the videos.

 

The more details you can provide regarding use and expectations the better we can advise you.

 

 

So sorry for not being clear, currently we have an HP media center pc m7360n with a windows xp operating system, our current station does have a conexant falcon II NTSC capture card that allows emc9 to import vhs tapes through a simple video/audio (white, red, yellow) connection.

 

aside from vhs tapes we also receive different types of video files and ultimately we need to convert them all to mpeg 2 for use in our trial presentation program. emc9 does a decent job for us now, but we are looking into the possibility of either upgrading our emc software or buying something totally different-even going as far as buying hardware for our new station to improve the quality and performance of our capture and encoding process.

 

we are starting our research and comparing different software/hardware packages, at the same time trying to figure out what our computer needs to run good. there are so many graphics cards, sound cards, etc., that we need advice on what to order when building out a computer.

 

since emc9 is a big mistake, should we trust emc10 with our new video station? i've looked into TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor, and some professional stuff like digital rapids, DRC Stream 500 card & SW, and optibase 200's. but before we buy anything or upgrade to emc10 what would you recommend?

 

thanks again,

 

jt

[Jim_Hardin]

I said that V9 was a mistake due to the reasons I listed, none of which have anything to do with the program itself…

 

I have used other programs too, but none of the ones you tried. The ones I tried were Ulead, Sony and something else. I spent little time with them before coming back to Roxio.

 

But software is like cars. To each his own.