(meteorobs) All night video recording question

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--- In meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, Thomas Ashcraft <ashcraft at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> I am setting up a video meteor/fireball recording system and need some 
> advice.
> 
> Right now I am operating a HiCam HB-710E video camera with an allsky 
> fisheye lens and I am running the video camera signal into a VCR which 
> makes an all night recording onto VHS tape. The system works quite well 
> for capturing fireballs. ( I am also feeding audio from a short wave 
> radio into the VCR recorder for WWV timing and on the second stereo 
> audio channel of vhs tape I have a forward scatter radio signal coming 
> in from an ICOM pcr1000 radio. )  I am capturing great meteor specimens 
> to vhs tape but am having a problem inputting the vhs specimens into my 
> pc to make shareable movie files. I purchased an ATI video capture card 
> but the video running into my Dell pc, XP, 1.8 gHz PIIII, Windows Media 
> Encoder 9 only record at about 1 frame per second which makes a poor 
> quality movie. So I am sort of stuck in my process.
> 
> What I would like to do is forget about the VCR altogether and instead 
> run the video from the camera into a computer for an all night, 8 or 10 
> hour digital video recording, and then extract the significant fireball 
> specimens and make movie files at high quality.
> 
> Do people do this?   Any advice is welcome and please feel free to 
> contact me off-list if you like.
> 
> I am thanking you in advance.
> 
> Clear skies,
> Thomas Ashcraft
> ashcraft ( at ) heliotown.com
> 
> 
> 
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