Why don't you capture directly to Final Cut Pro? I capture to
Final Cut Express on the Mac with no problems.
...snip...
Methinks you're fighting to fix something that doesn't need to be
fixed... just capture at 720x480 as the app wants to (correctly),
then render/export to 640x480 (or some other 4x3 format).
-R
I'm aware of the differences between the pixel formats but the whole
point of the exercise is to reduce the amount of rendering of video
on my (acknowledged) underpowered equipment.
Again referring back to my original message:
"... I happen to use that system to do simultaneous captures from an
analog video source and I don't think the system can handle capturing
both video streams with the processor it has and besides, the analog
is natively 640 x 480..."
The analog video stream is coming in from the output on what is in
reality a digital still camera's A/V port and the max resolution is
640 x 480 which coincidentally is the final output format size. So
one way or another, one of the captures has to be converted and as
things are cleaner down sampling than up sampling I try to work in
640 x 480. FC Pro has no problem with editing and working with this
with a custom preset.
So I thought that if FC Pro *let* me set a capture profile that has a
given resolution, that it would do the necessary transformation on
the fly or why would it let me set it to that?
As a programmer, I try to avoid misleading my users in to thinking
that if they make a settings choice that isn't going to result in the
expected results to either:
a) not let them make the choice
or
b) at the very least pop up a warning that doing that isn't going to
produce the desired results.
These are very basic UI principles as put forth in Bruce Tognazzini's
"Tog on Design" book. Unfortunately, a lot of Apple software (both
application and OS) has drifted further and further away from those
principles, but that's a discussion for another day and another
list...
- Craig
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