Capture Card? Am I missing something?

beatnik wrote on 6/13/2005, 9:17 PM
What is a capture card? I have a 3 port firewire card in my computer
and I just plug in my pd-150 via firewire cable, open Vegas,
click on "capture" and just capture the DV video. Am I missing something here? Or is a capture card my 3 port firewire card?

Please let me know if ther is a better solution out there.

Thanks,

Alex

Comments

riredale wrote on 6/13/2005, 9:55 PM
You have the idea. A lot of computers don't have firewire built-in, so they need a capture card that provides the firewire connection.
Blues_Jam wrote on 6/13/2005, 11:26 PM
"Firewire" is the name used by Apple Computer for the IEEE 1394 standard (developed by Apple) for fast serial data transfer much like USB. Other companies may use other names for this standard such as I.LINK or LYNX.

Since your camera stores its video in a digital format and supports the Firewire standard, the data needs only to be sent to the computer for Vegas to 'capture' and store.

A 'video capture card' (also known as an ADVC or Analog to Digital Video Converter) is specifically designed to receive analog video and convert it into digital information. A video camera that stores its information in an analog format will only have analog outputs and would require an actual video capture card to get the video into the computer as digital data.

Blues