Vide Capture card recommendations

[MadDog]

Any recommendations for a video capture card, so I can transfer VCR to DVD ??

TIA


MadDog

[NooNoo]

I have an ATI AIW 7500, very happy with that.

[MadDog]

I have an ATI AIW 7500, very happy with that.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

MD

[slgrieb]

Hmm, all sorts of solutions out there. You can get the needed hardware from something like a hundred bucks (or less) to whatever you care to spend. What level of hardware do you have now? There are some solutions that work OK with USB1.1, and some better ones that require USB 2.0. Like NooNoo says, there are also video cards that have video editing ability as well as stand-alone PCI cards.

The other part of the picture is what do you want to put on DVD? How long are the videos? A lot of the bundled software with video capture devices (or DVD burners) can't burn DVD files larger than 2 GB, so you may have to invest an additional $70 to $100 or so in DVD authoring software like Nero 6 Ultra or TMPG DVD Author. If you just want discs that will play in a DVD player, you can burn CD-R or -RW discs in VideoCD or SuperVideoCD format without the expense of a DVD burner. If you are doing copies of VHS tapes, you won't even suffer much of a quality loss. If you are feeling lost and confused at this point, check out http://www.doom9.org/

[MadDog]

Hmm, all sorts of solutions out there. You can get the needed hardware from something like a hundred bucks (or less) to whatever you care to spend. What level of hardware do you have now? There are some solutions that work OK with USB1.1, and some better ones that require USB 2.0. Like NooNoo says, there are also video cards that have video editing ability as well as stand-alone PCI cards.

The other part of the picture is what do you want to put on DVD? How long are the videos? A lot of the bundled software with video capture devices (or DVD burners) can't burn DVD files larger than 2 GB, so you may have to invest an additional $70 to $100 or so in DVD authoring software like Nero 6 Ultra or TMPG DVD Author. If you just want discs that will play in a DVD player, you can burn CD-R or -RW discs in VideoCD or SuperVideoCD format without the expense of a DVD burner. If you are doing copies of VHS tapes, you won't even suffer much of a quality loss. If you are feeling lost and confused at this point, check out http://www.doom9.org/

Thanks for the response.


I have an AMD 2200+ with 1GB of Kingston PC2700 RAM, a 120GB and an 80GB HD, Radeon 9200SE 8X AGP 128 MB video card, Liteon LDW-411S DVD burner, Liteon LTR-52246S cd burner.

I also have NERO Ultra and a program that came with the DVD burner called ShowBiz.

What I want to do is take all my VCR tapes that we made over the years, and save them to DVD.


MadDog

[AmeriDan]

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/VideoEdit...24&Langue_ID=7



A good USB solution, well they worked well for me, before I got my ATI AIW 7500

[confus-ed]

What I want to do is take all my VCR tapes that we made over the years, and save them to DVD.

..'any old' tv card'll do that for you, as you have a current generation graphics card ... maybe not 'bestest' or quickest, but from as little as $30, remembering that quality is gonna be more about what the vhs tapes have on them than anything else like frame drop or whatever.

The arcsoft showbiz app you mention is for just this purpose, if you want to make backup cd/dvd from DVD's you'll need something else as well