using Pinnacle AV/DV Capture card

aqctv · Post by **aqctv** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:31 pm

Okay I got suckered in at Best Buy to buy a Pinnacle Studio AV/DV $50 after trying all weekend to edit a video using Pinnacle Studio 9 I gave up even after reformatting my drive. re-installed Video Studio 9 wala after a hour had finished project. My question is can I still use the card to capture video VS 9 finds my DV camera but cannot find the composite input for VHS transfer is there a patch to make this work or did I just blow $50.

aqctv · Post by **aqctv** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:35 pm

Operating System: win XP Pro Sp 2
Motherboard: Asus A7V8x-x
Graphic Card: nvidia geforce 4 MX 4000
Sound Card: Yamaha
Processor: Athlon 3000
Hard Disk Drive: 160 gig
Memory: 1 Gig

tyamada · Post by **tyamada** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:17 am

What type of capture card do you have?

I tried to find out what type of capture card is included with Pinnacle Studio 9 and discovered it has been discontinued. Pinnacle Studio 10 stated that there is a PCI card and a USB connector. No other information was available.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:35 am

Tyamada -- the capture card itself is called "Pinnacle Studio AV/DV", and Pinnacle Studio 9 came with it, rather than the other way around.

It can capture from analog sources into DV format, if I understand it correctly...

aqctv -- I fear you may have wasted your $50 since I suspect that the card is really specific to Pinnacle and you have to use the accompanying software (namely, Pinnacle Studio 9) to capture with it -- unless someone else has an opposite view and has actually used the card with Video Studio. Even the blurb which accompanies the card tends to support my suspicion: "The heart of Pinnacle Studio AV/DV video capture board is a proprietary custom integrated circuit developed by Pinnacle...", though I acknowledge this is not totally conclusive...

Anyway, if my surmise turns out to be correct, then all I can suggest is that you reinstall Pinnacle Studio (gulp) and use it to capture your analog video. At least it will do so in high quality DV format. Then you can use VS9 to edit the captured video...

aqctv · Post by **aqctv** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:20 am

I found something on Ulead's web site that says this card is not compaitable. I should have done some more research oh well live and learn. So what is a good capture card for Video studio 9. I want to captre edit and go to DVD all using VS 9.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:35 am

For VHS transfer I use a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 card. This turns my computer into a television set. this particular card enables me to connect the VHS player from its SCART socket to an s-video input on the TV card.

This has a hardware MPEG encoder and so captures to MPEG format only.
Because it is a hardware encoder you don't need to worry about your computer being up to the job of encoding to MPEG 'on the fly.'

The downside is if you want to edit anything, then MPEG is not a good format. Straight cuts are OK - say cutting out adverts of TV programs, providing they are straight cuts - no transitions. If you want transitions then you need something like Womble for editing.

I am sure a few more of our bretheren will let us in upon what they use to capture from VHS.

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