capture card help ?

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minelab

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Hello all,
need some advice here, hope this is ok ta post in here as it is hardware.
i have a analog camcorder that use`s 8mm tapes, i want to get a capture card so i can put all my home movies i have of my kids and me hols onto my hard drive and then put them onto cd-rom via my writer, wots the best capture car for this, i was told a pinnacle pctv rave will do the job along with the pinnacle studio 8 software.
As ive never done any of this b4 would like to here from anyone who has, and wot they use, as long as i can put it to the hard drive and then burn it to disc with out the loss of quality in the movie.
Any Help on this please.

Thanks Tone

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sabio

sabio

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I'm not an expert of captur cards, I've an old analog TV caputre card "Aimlabs VHXtreme 98", but you have to know that the final results of capturing images will depend of hardware and of course software.
Hardware: there are many capture cards, cheapest (like mine) will capture at lowest resolution and less motion pictures and the result will be like a webcam video (not so but not like the original whit a continous movement), the results are great for sending videos by the web but no so good for capturing and editing home videos; better or profesional capturecards will do a great job, but there are expensives, and they will need more PC hardware resources.
 
weboneando

weboneando

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If you`re planning to use vcd format you may want to try the Dazzle vcd II it captures and compresses directly to mpg formats and has the chance to compress to mpeg2 also, the quality is very good for this formats and the app included is very simple to use, considering that you`re starting this will make it much easier to you.

You can check the specs at h**p://www.dazzle.com
 
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Doogs

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Capture Card

i used to use an ATI All In Wonder Radeon 32MB, i was never very happy with the results of this card and so i upgraded to the Pinnacle Studio Deluxe card... it is a lot easier to setup and use and it is just a simple case of swopping VIDEO IN/OUT cables Via a breakout box which sits on my computer desk.
please be aware that video footage takes up a heck of a lot of space on the hard drive, and if u r running windows 95/98/ME then u will be limited to only 4GB of capture.
i went up to Windows 2000 Pro and then onto Windows XP Pro and formatted my drives (46GB MAIN and 80GB CAPTURE SLAVE)using the NTFS file system as this has no limiitaions at all on the amount of video u can capture.
one thing against the Pinnacle card is that i can only use it with Studio 7 that was shipped with it..
But it is possible to open the captured footage into another program for editing and then back into Studio 7 for transfering back to VHS tape..

hopes this INFO helps....
 
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Doogs

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Studio Deluxe

it rathers depends on what part of the world u live in.....
cost me £245 here in the UK... if u were in the USA it would be around the $200. so when u do a ruff currency exhange it would cost less over there than what i paid here for it....
The plus side of the card is that it has an analog and 2 1394 ports on it... so it is far easier to do an upgrade from my HI8 videocam to a DV one...
welcome to the world of Video editing.....lol
i use Pinnacle Studio 7, Vegas video 3.0c, these are the best i have found so far....

one more little bit of advice for ya... go for what ya need in the future, not what ya need now... i made that mistake...LOL

have fun...
 
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Cviko_M

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Dazzle has massive problem with sound sinc on long sessions, search the newsgroups for info. Cheapest an far better solution is Canopus ADVC-50 (about 175 pounds in UK). Go to
h++p://w+w.canopus-uk.com/index_uk.asp for more info....
but it will require firewire card. For £269 you can have ADVC-100
external analog/digital in/out version.
All of them (including Dazzle) create DV file (hardware coding), so for mpeg you have to use software codec ( canopus -search this forum- is the best)....
 
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