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179609 2003-10-01 11:36:00 Hi, I have a number of analogue Video 8 tapes I want to copy to hard drive, edit, then burn to CDR. My camera is a Sony TRV16E Pal and has seperate RCA video and audio connectors. Computer is Athlon 1400 512Mb ram, NVidia GeForce 2 MX/MX400.
Has anyone used a simple setup to do this?
Muchas gracias, Ray
rnmpam (4667)
179610 2003-10-01 11:46:00 Yes, I have done that.

Its not terribly hard. I have a $100ish TV/FM Tuner/Capture card that does the trick.
You PC should be fine in its specs. I run an AMD 1700+ with 512MB RAM. The graphics card will be more than enough, but will you be capturing with it or another specialized card? I know that some GeForce cards have ViVO.

My biggest question is how large is your HDD?
Uncompressed video can be very large.. I captured 3 and a hlaf minutes of TV at the standard PAL resolution and it was 1.45GB!

Hope this helps

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silently (228)
179611 2003-10-04 16:43:00 Thanks for your help. I have noted your comments, and am much clearer now on what I need.
Regards
Ray
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