Capture card advice - Dazzle vs ATI 600?
I am once again going to go through this process again. I made several VHS to VCD on CDRs and eventually DVDs sometime ago when DVDs first became popular. I was using a dazzle 150 device with my Panasonic PV-9450 4 head and ulead with good results to convert older home movies.
I ditched the dazzle because I could not get it to recognize and work properly and want to redo alot of the earlier stuff I did to get them on DVD this time around. The tapes are mostly from the early 80s and 90s. I have been researching a bit on this site and familiar with the ATI cards but not sure which one would be best for my setup. I am running Windows XP on a Pentium dual core 2.5ghz 2 gig ram and have either PCI or PCIe available but no AGP slot. I am aware that there is a USB capture device as well the ATI 600 which is recommended. A little help please on deciding on the best ATI or alternative capture device for my setup will be appreciated. I recently acquired the new Pinnacle Studio Ultimate software for editing. |
Have a read of this thread of some decent alternatives:
Best ATI All In Wonder card alternatives, to transfer tapes to digital? - http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...ti-wonder.html and then this gives you a nice list of ATi video-cards (AGDP, PCI, PCI-e) for use with your WinXP machine... (just pay close attention to where you buy your cards, what condition they are in and whether all of the connectors are included too, e.g. S-Video, RCA, etc.) ATI All In Wonder card models - http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...html#post13441 Quote:
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- the ATI 600 USB, or - the PCI-e ATI All In Wonder cards (x1800, x1900, etc). The ATI 600 is easily found on Amazon used and complete (external wire bundle included). The PCI express ATI AIW cards are somewhat difficult to find, especially complete (all three wires included). Finding the individual wires for sale is honestly next to impossible, outside the purple/domino breakout cable. The other output wires can take a bit more time to locate. Worth it if you're patient, but annoying if you want something working right now. These cards also benefit from Zalman cooling mods, which add at least another $30, and fully block the first PCI slot under the PCI express slot (unless your motherboard has a large gap, which some do). |
Didnt want to create a new thread so instead dragged my old one up. I finally got an ATI 600 USB, experimented with a JVC 7800 which I need to send back since the picture quality is horrible and have virtualdub with huffy codec. After I capture, do I encode to mpeg and than can add titles and such for dvds or is that done while the format is still in avi? I plan on making dvds and also want to have an mkv. Also what software is recommended for doing such? Is windows media center good for anything? I also have adobe media encoder, and pinnacle studio hd. Thanks!
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What do you mean by "add titles and such"?
- If in the video itself, this (usually) happens in an editor (NLE) while AVI, before MPEG. - If just DVD menus, then this happens after MPEG conversionm during the authoring phase of creating DVDs, before burning. The ideal software for AVI capture is VirtaulDub. Pinnacle software is quirky and buggy, and not suggested. Adobe Premiere Elements is far, far better. See http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=U...A6CDS3DJZL5XAS
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