what video capture card should i get...

**Icarus** · 01-08-2005, 02:04 PM

i have an awesome atholon 64 3500+ with a kickass vid card, and 500 gig of HD space, and lots of VHS tapes. i want to convert those VHS tapes to digital, but i dont know what video capture card i should get. I'd like a good quality card, but not go overboard, since its just VHS stuff.

what does everyone here have, has anyone accomplished what im lookin to do?

**Alan Mills** · 01-08-2005, 04:45 PM

if you do not require to edit the tapes but simply transfer them to digital then you might want to consider a capture card that is capable of real-time MPEG2 conversion.

I use a Matrox RTX100 to do this but, from memory, it is not compatible with the Athlon64.

**Icarus** · 01-08-2005, 05:11 PM

ha, did a search on your card, and all i can say is...

ive been lookin for some models in the range of 40-100 bucks, so i'll see what i can find with that MPEG2 thing

**Alan Mills** · 01-08-2005, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by Icarus

ha, did a search on your card, and all i can say is...

ive been lookin for some models in the range of 40-100 bucks, so i'll see what i can find with that MPEG2 thing

It's a realtime render card fro premiere Pro. Saves oodles of time

The un-sung hero of it though is the realtime MPEG2 encoder function. Capture straight to MPEG2 or export to MPEG2 in realtime. Excellent for converting those videos to DVDs.

**Icarus** · 01-09-2005, 01:32 PM

i found one i think i might go for, its an MSI PCI TV/FM Tuner Card

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...127-998&depa=0

the reviews for the card say that the software that comes with the card is crap. I'm just wondering, capturing software is somewhat universal right? i should be able to find another program to use, and not HAVE to use the one in the package?

**mrlipring** · 01-10-2005, 10:18 AM

Yep, iuvcr will work with it.

**bookmangr** · 01-11-2005, 12:03 PM

Hello all,

New user to the site and new to the whole video editing thing.
So please be nice to me

I hope I am not posting wrong, but I have a small question related to this post.
Currently I have bought an ATI X800 XT PE card which has S-video/RCA IN & OUT.
I managed to give output to my TV through S-Video out and watch a movie that was playing to my PC DVD player.
Now, I want to grab a movie from my TV and record it to my PC if possible in AVI, which as far as I know it's the best quality. If not possible I can live with MPG

Since I have a S-Video IN at my card I connected my TV with my PC and I installed the required drivers. Something like WDM, if I remember well.
Then I open Adope Pre, but I understand that it get inputs only from DV Camrecorders.
Is there any program that gives me an option for S-VIDEO analogue input ?
I don't want to buy a TV tuner, just for captruring movies to my PC since I already have a TV and the card I bought it's quite new and expensive

Any help will be much appreciated !

All the best,

Kostas