what capture cards are you using?
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matlander
what capture cards are you using?
I've been doing this huge project with an old "all in wonder" rage 64 meg card. I've run into a few hickups with VS9 when it comes to the high quality production to DVD. I just bought a gig of ram and a new ATI 9800 pro all in wonder card and I was just wondering what everyone out there is using and what kind of performance you are getting from your cards with Virtualstudio?
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THoff
I use a Canopus ADVC-300 for capturing analog material. It is a bidirectional analog-to-digital converter and provides its output in the form of a DV stream, just like a DV camcorder would. It was expensive, but paid for itself during the project that finally made me decide to buy it.
Prior to that, I used several NVIDIA-based cards with Video In / Video Out functionality, and in the distant past, some ATI cards before I was turned off by the poor drivers.
I am much happier with the ADVC-300 than any video card-based capture device. The documentation is skimpy at best and the software to control it has shortcomings, but the job that the device does is fantastic. It doesn't drop frames, and has a good assortment of real-time filters to deal with problematic sources.
Prior to that, I used several NVIDIA-based cards with Video In / Video Out functionality, and in the distant past, some ATI cards before I was turned off by the poor drivers.
I am much happier with the ADVC-300 than any video card-based capture device. The documentation is skimpy at best and the software to control it has shortcomings, but the job that the device does is fantastic. It doesn't drop frames, and has a good assortment of real-time filters to deal with problematic sources.
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Terry Stetler
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On several different systems;
1. the VfW capture module of my RT.X100's, which can capture YUV, RGB24 and DV/DVcam from analog sources by way of S-Video or composite inputs, as well as its embedded DirectShow TI IEEE-1394 interface.
2. Gainward TV-2-GO USB capture/tuner puck. Not a bad little gadget.
3. Matrox RT-2000 VfW capture module, which is much like the RT.X100's.
3. Matrox G450-eTV analog MJPeg card (also does YUY2 and RGB)
4. Matrox G-400 Marvel analog MJPeg card (YUY2, RGB too)
plus sundry IEEE-1394 cards, most all with TI chipsets, and a few other toys that come my way from time to time
1. the VfW capture module of my RT.X100's, which can capture YUV, RGB24 and DV/DVcam from analog sources by way of S-Video or composite inputs, as well as its embedded DirectShow TI IEEE-1394 interface.
2. Gainward TV-2-GO USB capture/tuner puck. Not a bad little gadget.
3. Matrox RT-2000 VfW capture module, which is much like the RT.X100's.
3. Matrox G450-eTV analog MJPeg card (also does YUY2 and RGB)
4. Matrox G-400 Marvel analog MJPeg card (YUY2, RGB too)
plus sundry IEEE-1394 cards, most all with TI chipsets, and a few other toys that come my way from time to time
Terry Stetler