[BC] Need audio delay buffer

[James Potter]

Ira: Roger, and thanks.

We're using the IntensityPro card in a beefy PC.  We're inputting 1920 x 1080i 60Hz video with separate analog audio.  Yes, it is processing intensive, but the machine doesn't seem to have any problems keeping up. My IT guru sidekick has beefed-up a 4-processor board and it really screams.  We run ProPresenter slide show while recording on BME. 

Glad you mentioned conversion -- the TV station we're going to air on wants mpeg2, and BME outputs avi.  I have a number of format converters, but none that do avi to mpeg2, so I'm looking for one -- lots of freeware on the internet, I see.  A 1-hour service results in about 60GB of avi from BME.  It took me 2.5 hours to transfer that file from the machine's harddrive to a big USB drive, then another 2 hours to load it into my studio for editing, then another 2 hours back on the USB drive for the TV station -- WAY more time than I want to spend every Sunday afternoon.  Our objective is to give the station our service unedited.  It's a major production headache to get everything right. I have that kind of background having worked in radio and TV, but the other church folks do not.  I tell them that the whole she-bang needs to fit into 59:50 from starting chimes to benediction.  We're working on that.  If I could convert that big file to mpeg2 on the same machine -- thus reducing the file size -- then I could cut down on the download time to the USB drive, and just hand a hot smoking USB to the engineer at the TV station for insertion in their automation system.  Easier -- much easier -- said than done. 

I understand your discussion about wandering video, but I don't see any probable cause for that -- the system is fixed and undisturbed -- all cable lengths are constant -- no RF links involved like a remote at a fire somewhere.  What can you add? And do you know of an avi to mpeg2 converter software?

Thanks/Regards/J