Capturing with Geforce cards

Nat wrote on 4/23/2004, 4:02 PM
I had to RMA my TI4200 card and since I am very *unlucky* my model is sold out and they are gonna send me a brand new shiny TI4800SE. The model will have a Svideo input and I was wondering if you guys had any experience with those ? Will I be able to capture uncompressed with this or only low quality mpeg ?

I still do wish my dv camera wasn't broken but I have to live with it. I'll have a decklink where I work soon so it won't be an issue anymore.

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/23/2004, 5:40 PM
All depends on the card. My ATI AIW cab capture mpeg1/2, WMV & AVI (uncompressed or compressed). Check out the nvidia site.
Nat wrote on 4/23/2004, 5:45 PM
And when recording uncompressed, is the video usable ?
Would you edit it ?
johnmeyer wrote on 4/23/2004, 8:05 PM
There are many, many issues in capturing uncompressed video that go way beyond your capture card. The biggest deal is whether your disk drive can keep up.

Why do you want to capture uncompressed? Yes, I know you want to get better quality, but specifically what don't you like about DV? If you want better color space and fewer compression artifacts, you might consider a motion JPEG codec or HUFYUV. This gives you a big step up in quality without needing too exotic a computer.

For lots of discussion about various capture cards and capture codecs, go here:

DVDrHelp Capture Forum
Nat wrote on 4/23/2004, 10:03 PM
Honestly if I could I would capture DV. On big projects I always capture dv or better.
I was wondering for quick transfers if my gefoce card will give me decent quality. If I have acess to blackmagic 8bit or the sony yuv codec it would be great, but having never played with graphic card inputs I don't know in what format they are able to capture...

the thing is, if I have a 20 minutes vhs to transfer, i'd rather capture it uncompressed and then compress it DV in Vegas...
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/24/2004, 5:01 AM
I capture via my ATI AIW card with Huffy. I can';t capture DV. I don't even recomend editing via Huffy. I normaly capture stuff then re-encode to DV over night. Capturing VHS uncompressed doesn't look any better then DV. Only difference is hat Vegas will have a hard time editing it & with wil be huge. :)