I have previously worked with Ulead Video Studio 7 using a Lynx USB capture device. Prem 6.5 will not recognise this device. Do I have to purchase one of the Adobe recommended capture cards which are a bit pricey or can somebody suggest a cheaper (but reliable) alternative?
I have a P4 2.4 ghz system with 768 MB of DDR memory

Forget USB for capture. Assuming you simply want to capture from a MiniDv camcorder (pretty much the norm around here) all you need is a firewire port. If you haven't got one then you can buy a firewire PCI card for under £20UKP if you hunt around. Oh, and a firewire cable to connect the camera up

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Thanks for the advice about USB. What about analogue capture? I have some VHS stuff that I need to work on.
Can you recommend a reliable card?

I do not think Premiere will perform analogue capture.

You will need an Analogue-to-Digital convertor. Capture through this (using the s/w that comes with it) from your VCR and you will get a very large AVI file which you can import into Premiere and away you go....

Lots and lots of A2D boxes on the market (almost as many as there are post in these forums discussing them) and everyone here will have thier own preference. The one I just happened to buy is a Dazzle Fusion which (last time i looked) you can pick up from amazon for just under £50. For me it worked fine first time (and every time so far) and I've been happy with it although some have had teething troubles with it. It also acts a multi card reader.

And, in typical fashion after my last post, it will need a USB2 port.

In short, for analogue capture you will typically use a USB2 port and for digital capture always use firewire. Sorry about the confusion on the last post. If you currently have neither USB2 or firewire then I can recommend a nice dual port card that I picked up for under £20. Has three USB2 ports and two firewire ports on it.

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