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Post by Ken Berry »

I am not trying to capture analogue.
Terry -- In fact you are. There might be a slight confusion in terminology here, though. Just as you capture video from a digital video camera, you also need to capture from an analogue video camera. But as well as capturing, it first needs to convert the analogue signal into digital. And for that you need a capture device. Some of them are no more than that -- they are the cheap ones ones that merely act as a bridge to receive the signal from an analogue camera, but they leave the hard conversion work to the computer once that analogue signal is received and sent on. Others, like the DVD Xpress or the Hauppage, have a chip built into them which does the conversion in the box itself i.e. it both captures and converts, then sends a digital mpeg-2 stream to the computer (or DV stream if it is one of the even more expensive Canopus line!!) :lol:
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