| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 16064 | 2002-02-25 09:28:00 | WHICH CAPTURE CARD? | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 37014 | 2002-02-25 09:28:00 | I'm looking to invest in a video capture card - aim is to capture (full motion)analogue video ex VCR, be able to save as MPEG or AVI movie. Card should have analogue output as well to return edited video to tape. Is there something out there taht does that for less that a grand? Current system..... Pentium 166 256MB memory 8GB HDD running Windows 95 |
Guest (0) | ||
| 37015 | 2002-02-25 10:06:00 | There are cards around for under a grand that will do a 'reasonable' job. But that is not your main concern. The system you are proposing to do it on is unfortunately not up to spec. I wouldn't attempt what you want to do with anything less than 512mb Ram, 20gig(min) or 40gig 7200rpm hard drive, and a minimum of 750mhz processor (and that's probably on the light side) Succesful video capture & rendering uses a massive amount of processing power and must be done at high speed. Don't believe the minimum system requirements card manufacturers tell you that you need. Most of them are cobblers. Do a search for desktop video editing before you buy a card and read up thoroughly before you waste your money. There are heaps of good articles on the net. Don't think W'95 will do the job either. |
Guest (0) | ||
| 37016 | 2002-02-25 20:41:00 | You will have to upgrade your PC 1st before you even think about video capture plus you will need a really large Hard Drive and lots of memory and a good graphics card will prove to be very expensive | Guest (0) | ||
| 37017 | 2002-02-26 03:21:00 | Price does not always indicate the quality of an analogue video capture card, because the included software is often where the major cost lies. Your PC is rather low spec to do anything serious, as I found that an AMD K6-2 350MHz with 196Mb RAM and 40Mb hard drive were close to necessary minimum. Saved video capture files are huge. Majority of marketed boards now tend to be for Digital Video Cameras with Firewire transfer. Strangely, I found that I can achieve good results using a cheap Zoltrix face-to-face TV card with the BT848 chip, and also with a low-spec ASUS AGP V3000 Video card with video/in/out. | Guest (0) | ||
| 1 | |||||