old guy needs help w/ video capture

[wayne kerr]

Hey thanks everyone for the suggestions. Now I gotta go down to Van Nuys to get my tapes!

CM

[wayne kerr]

After entering tedious strings of hexadecimal code, your reward was a flashing display of LEDs. Fun!

Heh heh heh...

CM

[I'm Painting Again]

hi ccpp

take a look at the Canopus ACEDVio card it will do what your looking for real well for 329 beans..at bhphotovideo.com..theres abunch of cards but i like the Canopus products..it uses a dv25 codec which is rated for news and sports, i.e., ENG applications..you might need software to use with this card but it comes with capture software so if your dvdburner software has an mpeg encoder your set..

[wayne kerr]

Thanks high!

CM

[housepig]

if your dvdburner software has an mpeg encoder your set..

two things:

- if you want to keep this on your hard drive for computer playback, don't encode to mpeg-2, it's just going to waste space. encode to Divx or WMV.

- if you want to put the material on dvd, get a third-party encoder. most of the encoders that come bundled with burning software are not going to do a good job, and generally take a lot more time to do that poor job.

TMPGenc is a good encoder, another popular one is by MainConcept.

[Tim Casey]

Too bad you're not using a rich housewife's computer. You wouldn't need to buy anything else except a cheap miniDV camcorder which you could always use to make more "home" movies with better quality.

[wayne kerr]

You wouldn't need to buy anything else except a cheap miniDV camcorder

How is a cheap miniDV camcorder gonna help me transfer my VHS collection to DVD????

CM

[spiral]

How is a cheap miniDV camcorder gonna help me transfer my VHS collection to DVD????

Hook the VCR to the RCA inputs of the camera then either live capture from realtime or record everything onto DV tape. So many options!