Capture with Vdub and Intensity Pro

[Terrachild]

I tried capturing uncompressed in VirtualDub with the BlackMagic Intensity Pro (HDMI).
Everything works fine, except without a Raid array, I can't maintain the 120 megabyte rate for very long.

So tried to capture with Huffy, but it doesn't show up in the compression list.
I then installed the Huffy with the CCESP Patch v0.2.5
It worked fine.

Or so I thought until I checked the color.
I output color bars from my Canon HF S10 video camera.
The output format is 1920 x 1080.

Please follow along here: http://www.etfinder.net/capturepics/


The intensity Pro outputs yuv 16 to 235, why do I need to convert to anything to avoid the skewed color. Why can't I just capture what it gives to Huffy without a filter?

Does anyone have any ideas?


Thanks,

Chris

[Terrachild]

There is long discussion here about this topic.
If anyone has any ideas, please come on over.

http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act=ST&f=6&t=18348&

[Ghitulescu]

You can simply take the SDHC card from Canon and copy its content on the PC (I think Canon has a software helping you to join back the files).

Or you'd like a live capture?

[Terrachild]

The point is to capture live through HDMI and avoid the loss of quality that happens when the video is compressed inside the camera. With compression, you lose your 4:2:2 color and get 4:2:0 color, and you also get compression artifacts. By capturing live you get a much better image.

[Ghitulescu]

You're right about loosing the quality, however there are few hardware solutions to play natively 4:2:2 (as BD is 4:2:0 AFAIK). You probably want to edit them as 4:2.2 then downsample them to 4:2:0, which makes sense.

No idea for the colorspace...