Wich is the better Capture Card for Vegas 4.0 or Vegas 5.0, please.

juan2003 wrote on 4/2/2004, 6:09 PM
Hello !!!

Please, I would like to know or to have a refference about of the name of Capture Card wich works very well, good or fine with Vegas 4.0 or Vegas 5.0 (When Vegas 5.0 comes)

I know very well that there are many marks (Matrox, Pinnacle, Ati, Canopus, etc) but I request whoever to advise to me about a good Capture Card (Hardware) to can work many video files with Vegas 4.0 or 5.0. Becuase i want to capture video directly from a VHS with Video Capture 4.0 of Vegas 4.0.

Features about my PC: (how refference to find a good Capture Card)

Processor:_______Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
Memory RAM:____768 MBs
O.S. :___________Windows XP Proffesional Version 2002
Hard Disk:_______2 Hard Disks of 40 GB Quantum Fireball ct20 40 (each H.D.)

Thanks for your advises and opinions.

Bye Bye

Juan

Comments

jetdv wrote on 4/2/2004, 7:18 PM
Your choice is any standard OHCI Firewire card through which you can capture analog through a convertor or, possibly, your camera.

Alternately, Canopus makes a card with analog inputs that looks like a Firewire card to the computer. Something like Canopus 1394 (I don't know the exact model number)
rebel44 wrote on 4/3/2004, 2:01 AM
for a last 3 years I am using ATI to capture analog input and write back to VHS. The firewire I have build on motherboard.You my want to consider getting faster board. I had 1G with 512M PC133 and did capture fine ,but the rendering time was a quite long.I heard that ATI do not produce the 8500DV series, but with 7500 you will be fine. If you can find in any store 8500DV the you will have analog and digital capture in one card.It should have a TV tuner build in.
Have a fun
farss wrote on 4/3/2004, 2:49 AM
For capture from VHS I'd recommend the Canopus ADVC-300.
There are even better units available but possibly overkill for just VHS.
If your budget doesn't stretch to the 300 then the ADVC-100 seems to give almost as good a results but without quite as many features.
Of course with either of these you'll need a firewire port on your PC.
Good gear, including the best VHS deck you can afford makes a big difference to the results you get with VHS. I have a SVHS deck which lets me go S-Video in and out. Not a huge difference with VHS but every little bit helps.