ULead and Video Capture Problems

d3moliti0n · 7 Dec 2009 at 17:46

Hi

My Dad is trying to capture some video from an old Panasonic camcorder. He bought a USB to composite input cable and it came with a disc to install the drivers and ULead video capture and editing software.

The problem is, whenever he tries to capture anything or play it back through ULead it just shows up as green and pink blobs etc. There is also a pop-up saying 'USB Controller Bandwidth Exceeded'. This happens no matter which USB hub it is plugged in to. The only other USB devices attached to the computer are a set of Advent speakers and a Logitch wireless USB Keyboard/Mouse receiver.

The specs of the computer if it helps:

Athlon 64 3200+ 2GHz
2GB DDR1 Ram
(No graphics card, just using the on-board ATI graphics)

Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?

Thanks for your help.

rickyt · 7 Dec 2009 at 18:53

You'll never get satifactory results [if any results] using USB . USB transfer was never meant for video footage transfer ,only digital stills from some camcorders .You need to use Firewire .USB is too slow .Buy a Firewire card and a cable ,then capture using Ulead .I use Firewire with my Sharp & Panasonic camcorders but use Pinnacle 9 for capture giving excellent results.

d3moliti0n · 7 Dec 2009 at 19:29

There is a firewire port built into the computer already. I just need the cable but I don't know how it's going to connect to the camcorder as it's a 14 year old Panasonic with only composite connections on it (the Red, White and Yellow connectors).

rickyt · 7 Dec 2009 at 20:50

Oh , I see .I didn't think it was as old as 14 years. Your limited in terms of connections now . A TV card for the PC , but not always sucessfull . I had problems with out of sync audio/video on mine .Ok if there is no soundtrack and your just wanting to add some background music.The next thing could be a capture device like the Pinnacle [dazzle], link the composite cables to the device ,then the device plugs into a USB port .Another device is a Aopen XRecorder ,there a sell out whenever there sold from online stores.I bought one cheap from one of the forums ,excellent device and you can plug anything into it , ie. firewire ,composite ,SVHS. This captures the signals ,does all the conversion work and pushes signal through a USB port . One more way, posibly the cheapest, a HDD/DVD recorder with composite inputs .Capture your footage to the HDD , edit it and then transfer the result to a disk .hth

d3moliti0n · 7 Dec 2009 at 20:58

The device he is trying to use at the moment is a composite to USB device. Basically it has got a USB connector on one end and then the Red/White/Yellow connectors and an S-Video connector on the other. Then he plugs a composite cable into the camera itself and then the other end of the cable onto the composite to USB device. Yet when he plays it back through the computer the footage is all in weird colours (Green, Pink etc. as I said before).

I have tried it on my computer and it's working fine, even through the USB and I had no problems captuing some footage on mine. It just doesn't seem to want to work on his computer.

Jay Bee · 7 Dec 2009 at 21:46

USB Connection

You will find that the onboard grapics can't handle the amount of data that is required to form the picture, try black and white and it will probley work ok, it more or less proves it as it works on yours (you have a card?) put a card in and it will allow the processer to do its own thing while the card does the grapics