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hanniblek
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March 3, 2011
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Capture card plug-in

  • March 3, 2011
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Hi,

My company has developed a H.264 HD capture card and I would like to support it in Adobe Premiere Elements 8/9 (PE).

I have a few questions that I hope you can help answer :

1.     Which SDK should I use for the plug-in ?

2.     The card supports only compressed streams, meaning it has to be decoded in PE for preview. Is this type of use case supported ?

3.     What type of plug-in/plug-ins will I need to develop ? Are there examples ?

Thanks for any guide.

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Anonymous
March 3, 2011

Actually now that I think about it - if you make a device driver that exposes it as Video For Windows (VfW) (NOT DirectX or Media Foundation) any video editing tool should be able to decode it as a capture device.

Look at the capture chapter in the pdf (in the sdk) to better understand (I'm just shooting off the top of my head from memory - I'm at the other end in Export.)

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hanniblekAuthor
Participant
March 4, 2011

so, in this case,

1.     I need to develop the plug-in as a recorder or importer or exporter or a combination ?

2.     Are there built-in video and audio decoders in PE available for use in preview ?

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Zac Lam
Inspiring
March 4, 2011

Hi hanniblek,

For Premiere Elements to support capture using your hardware, you'll need to either provide a recorder plug-in built using the Premiere Pro SDK, or a WDM capture driver.  If you provide a recorder plug-in, you will need to provide your own code to decode the video for display in the Capture panel.

Ideally, you would capture directly to files already supported by Premiere Elements.  That way there would be no need to provide a separate importer plug-in.

Regards,

Zac

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Anonymous
March 3, 2011

1: I'd do it with CS5 so that it works with the current version

2: if you are going to be the importer it's your responsibility to decode it.

3: The sdk has excellent examples to start from.

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