Capture Card Recommendation
Moderator: Ken Berry
Capture Card Recommendation
Ken/Vidoman/sjj1805 - i have decided to give VS a try, so I'm going to purchase the program. can you guys recommend a reasonably priced, compatible capture card i can use to capture video? i have an older Hi-8 camera with s-video and composite outputs. i also have hours of family memories on VHS that I'd like to convert to DVD. Thanks.
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=29031 answers your immediate questions fully.
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Devil has provided a link to a very comprehensive article concerning this so I will keep this brief not to confuse matters.
My own preference is to use a TV Card.
Why?
Because after you have finished converting all of those precious VHS tapes the TV card will remain useful, even if you later upgrade your Hi-8 camcorder to a digital or HD one. The TV card effectively turns the computer into a TV set with a hard drive recorder. There are various makes available - mine just happen to be Hauppauge which record in MPEG2. If you can get one that records in DV even better.
My own preference is to use a TV Card.
Why?
Because after you have finished converting all of those precious VHS tapes the TV card will remain useful, even if you later upgrade your Hi-8 camcorder to a digital or HD one. The TV card effectively turns the computer into a TV set with a hard drive recorder. There are various makes available - mine just happen to be Hauppauge which record in MPEG2. If you can get one that records in DV even better.
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sjj1805
- Posts: 14383
- Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:20 am
- System_Drive: C
- 32bit or 64bit: 32 Bit
- motherboard: Equium P200-178
- processor: Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2080
- ram: 2 GB
- Video Card: Intel 945 Express
- sound_card: Intel GMA 950
- Hard_Drive_Capacity: 1160 GB
- Location: Birmingham UK
I have 3 hauppauge devices (I have several computers)
The two internal TV cards - the PVR350 and the HVR350 are the more flexible in so much as you can connect things to them such as a VHS player, Sky+ satelite receiver and an analogue camcorder.
The USB stick is simply a TV device with no inputs other than a co-axial aerial - you could of course connect the above things via the co-axial cable but with the internal cards you can use RCA plugs or s-video.
If your device(s) have SCART outputs you can get a SCART to RCA adapter. This provides the best possible picture quality - far crisper and cleaner than via Co-axial.
Next comment is analogue TV -V- Digital TV.
The PVR350 is analogue only (P- Personal Video Recorder)
the HVR1300 is analogue and digital and known as a "hybrid" card (H-Hybrid Video Recorder)
The Nova-T USB stick is Digital Only.
When recording Analogue from the Hauppauge devices - either with WinTV2000 which is the native TV Viewer/recorder for the Hauppauge devices or by using something else such as VideoStudio, you are able to set the recording quality. This is a bit like setting a VHS Recorder to standard play or Long Play etc.
When Recording Digital TV you are unable to alter the quality setting which is set at 15000 kbps - this is quite high and presents a few problems if you want to create a standard definition DVD - you have to lower the bit rate which means rendering the entire recording (as opposed to smart rendering.)
I also got hold of a couple of other cheap USB Digital TV sticks off the internet and these recorded digital TV at a much lower bit rate - however as I say those USB sticks were cheap and you get what you pay for. The problem I had with those was difficulty receiving many of the digital TV channels - but with the Hauppauge equipment I had no problems with reception (All connected to the same roof top aerial).
If you opt for a Hauppauge system then my other recommendations are to use CTScheduler (free) rather than the scheduler that is provided by Hauppauge. I also do my recording using the equipments native WinTV2000 and then open the captured MPEG2 recording with either VideoStudio, MovieFactory or Womble MPEG Wizard. When using Womble I do so to cut out the unwanted bits and save it as a new MPEG2 file then use one of the following to author a DVD
VideoStudio
MovieFactory
DVD Workshop 2.
The two internal TV cards - the PVR350 and the HVR350 are the more flexible in so much as you can connect things to them such as a VHS player, Sky+ satelite receiver and an analogue camcorder.
The USB stick is simply a TV device with no inputs other than a co-axial aerial - you could of course connect the above things via the co-axial cable but with the internal cards you can use RCA plugs or s-video.
If your device(s) have SCART outputs you can get a SCART to RCA adapter. This provides the best possible picture quality - far crisper and cleaner than via Co-axial.
Next comment is analogue TV -V- Digital TV.
The PVR350 is analogue only (P- Personal Video Recorder)
the HVR1300 is analogue and digital and known as a "hybrid" card (H-Hybrid Video Recorder)
The Nova-T USB stick is Digital Only.
When recording Analogue from the Hauppauge devices - either with WinTV2000 which is the native TV Viewer/recorder for the Hauppauge devices or by using something else such as VideoStudio, you are able to set the recording quality. This is a bit like setting a VHS Recorder to standard play or Long Play etc.
When Recording Digital TV you are unable to alter the quality setting which is set at 15000 kbps - this is quite high and presents a few problems if you want to create a standard definition DVD - you have to lower the bit rate which means rendering the entire recording (as opposed to smart rendering.)
I also got hold of a couple of other cheap USB Digital TV sticks off the internet and these recorded digital TV at a much lower bit rate - however as I say those USB sticks were cheap and you get what you pay for. The problem I had with those was difficulty receiving many of the digital TV channels - but with the Hauppauge equipment I had no problems with reception (All connected to the same roof top aerial).
If you opt for a Hauppauge system then my other recommendations are to use CTScheduler (free) rather than the scheduler that is provided by Hauppauge. I also do my recording using the equipments native WinTV2000 and then open the captured MPEG2 recording with either VideoStudio, MovieFactory or Womble MPEG Wizard. When using Womble I do so to cut out the unwanted bits and save it as a new MPEG2 file then use one of the following to author a DVD
VideoStudio
MovieFactory
DVD Workshop 2.