ATI and the WorkPrinter

[studiocarter]

After thinking more on it, the first unit with the variable voltage output would be best. (?) The second one only halfs the current. If there is a spike - goodby WP. DM96E will be in stock in 28 days or so. An account was opened for the purchase, there is an e-mail flag on it, now I can put a wish onto it as well.
My volt meter is in the states and another will be bought next trip to the shopping center or hardware store.

[studiocarter]

Just tieing up loose ends by posting a duplicate happy ending (I hope) message here as on the Cheap WorkPrinter Transfer in the UK thread. Nothing new.I got a power source that is 110 volts; I got a multimeter and measured the mains voltage and the output from the transformer.
Three cheers. Thanks to http://www.projex-sales.com/ and the advice Bob Halls gave me. 

The transformer I just bought says it changes 230 volts to 110 volts. The multimeter proved it does really do that. Mains voltage was 242 volts and the output of the transformer was 110.8 to 111.2 or something like that.
I bought this one to run a 16mm projector that needs 8 amps and 115 volts. Now I can run both the WorkPrinter and the Projector.
I got it at Machine Mart http://www.machinemart.co.uk/index.asp in Bristol and had to go to a nearby electrical contractor supply store to get a special plug for it, 4343?, it is round and rated for 110 volts and 16 amps.. Yellow in color.
Still, I need to wire a plug so I can actually use the thing. It does not use the usual UK plugs. These are round with three pins or holes. I bought an extension cord for it and will cut it and install the plugs that are needed.
The voltage is correct at 110 even with 240 in the wall. So, I should be able now to transfer my films to video and project 16mm films. I could even give shows outside at night if I had a bigger screen...

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/ranges.asp?g=114&r=2105
Portable Power Tool & Site Transformers

Now to get on to some more CREATIVE work instead of this technical junk.
Use it or loose it, shoot film.
27 March, 2003
Everything works fine. The extension cord was cut near the out plug and a normal UK 3 flat prong female plug was wired to it. Instructions were included inside the plug. A gray 2 prong American plug was plugged into the UK one, it is UK to US, a 3 prong US plug can't be used with the two prong plug on the WorkPrinter or 16mm projector.
Voltage today was much lower, nearer to 225, output voltage was 109.
Both projectors worked.
The vari-ac is still not available to Maplin and I canceled my order for it.

Man! I hope the next poor sap who has to deal with this power grid reads this. It'll save 'em a lot of grief.

It would be nice to have a stable power supply that does not change. Two inverters would be a lot more costly than I want to spend at this time as per Andrea's setup. But an inverter and a deep cell battery would be a solution, too. The inverter I bought in the States at Pep Boy's changes 12 volt DC to 110 (?) 60 hertz for sure. A battery charger is also needed. But, you can't get that inverter from here, easily anyway.

[studiocarter]

Jeff,

NO, it does not work with DodCap. The preview window alternates between chanel 3 snow and black. I did check and got a picture feed from the camera in the ATI capture window. Sorry.

Mike Carter

[digvid]

Mike -

Under "Capture Device" did you choose the tv tuner or the camera capture device?

- Jeff

[studiocarter]

Jeff,

There is no "capture device" in dodcap. Or did you mean somewhere else?

Mike

[studiocarter]

Jeff,

It must have been an old version. The screen in dodcap I had was not like the one in the help file. I better download another try.

Mike.

[studiocarter]

Jeff,

Oh Yea! We have video
The latest version was downloaded, svideo was selected and there it was. A capture was not actually made, I assume that will not be a problem.

Now, to bust my buns tomorrow at this. The ATI snapshots crashed after 141 bmps.

Michael

[digvid]

Oh yeah, you must have had a really old version. The newer Dodcap versions have pretty good support for analog capture cards such as yours. Glad to hear it (seems) to work.

- Jeff

[studiocarter]

Hi,

After using Dodcap with my ATI, it doesn't work. Awww heck. All the functions work on the program and I see the video in the previes, but then it just does not have any of the frames it says it has to show. They just aren't there. Rage Theater Pro does not equal my ATI care.

Michael

on to avi-io

[digvid]

Michael -

So you pressed the "Begin" button to start a capture session, clicked the "Sample" button multiple times, then pressed "End" to end the capture session? Then you opened the resulting AVI file and there was nothing in it? Let me know more precisely what happened, and I might be able to figure this out.

Thanks!

- Jeff

[studiocarter]

All that was done several times and only 1 frame would show. Now, I may have had the wrong compressor selected in ATI. When I captured in another program, YUY2 Packed Data is the only format that played back and that is possible to edit in Premiere. It might be that codec must be preselected. I'll let youknow.

[studiocarter]

try, try again,

GOT IT!

Had to reboot.

I actually captured some single frames from the WorkPrinter.

[Guest]

oops, I couldn't get it to do it again.

[digvid]

Michael -

You might try it with the "<Capture Card Default Codec>" compression option. This will either give you uncompressed video or MJPEG, whichever the ATI card natively outputs.

- Jeff D.

[Guest]

That is all that shows anyway. Deeper inside, the actual codec shows up. The time it worked I did not try to look at it and I just closed it immediately. then the video played. If I look at it the computer crashes.