Adding Video Capture Card

BarryB wrote on 5/20/2002, 10:46 AM

I have a fairly robust DAW (P4 1.7, 512-SD-Ram, Radeon VE dual 32m DDR video card)setup with a Delta 1010 and Vegas Audio software. I am upgrading the software to Vegas Video 3.0 and would like to add a video capture card to the mix. The maker of my DAW has suggested that adding a video capture card to my system will likely cause conflicts because the Delta 1010 actually uses up a lot of recources already. I guess i'm looking for a 2nd opinion and/or some advice from those who have been down this road before. Perhaps I could disable the Delta 1010 somehow when I want to capture video? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Chienworks wrote on 5/20/2002, 11:43 AM

Skip the internal capture card. Use a firewire port (or add one if necessary) and use an external device such as the Canopus ADVC-100 converter. This box allows you to convert composite and S-Video into DV and vice versa. The firewire port is also useful for capturing directly from a digital camcorder.

Naughtybird wrote on 5/20/2002, 4:28 PM

Hi BarryB,

I understand your point. I had a similar system as yours, but I changed to dual athlons.
Anyway, besides of my Terratec EWS 88MT I also have a Miro DC1000 installed and recently I added a firewire card.
I arranged different hardware setups for different jobs, pure audio only terratec, pure mpeg2 realtime only Miro DC100, pure native DV with VV3 just the firewire card.
As OS I´m using Win2K.

You are right with your worries. When I had installed only the Terratec and the Miro, everything was working fine. But after adding the Firewire card some problems came up, so I decided to arrange different setups.

Up to now everything was running fine. Unfortunately this afternoon my NT smoked up, so have a look that your NT ist strong enough for more cards.

Naughtybird