Compatible Capture cards

mtfergy wrote on 2/21/2001, 4:19 PM

What capture card works best with vegas? I want the option
of analog/digital i/o. and I would like the quality to be
near professional quality (using no compression). I was
looking at the Pinnacle DV500, but I was told that it
wasn't compatable with Vegas Video.
So, if anyone has any suggestions on a good capture card..
PLEASE let me know.

fergy

Comments

jeskridg wrote on 2/26/2001, 2:59 PM

Well for one thing I'm not sure what you mean by uncompressed. The Pinnacle DV500 is a DV and
analog card but sill uses compression. Absoultely uncompressed video files are ENORMOUS!!! I'm not
at my video machine to do and render and tell you but a minute of video can be a gig or more.

DV is about the best you can get at a consumer level. I'm assuming that since you were looking at the
DV500 you don't have like $10k+ to spend on a video editing system. DV files are also huge but no so
bad. 5 minutes of DV video is about 1GB, 10 minutes about 2GB and so on.

If you want a cheap Vegas and Full IEEE 1394 comliant setup get a Pyro DV card ~$100, and a
$300-400 Sony DV convertor like the DVMC-DA2. It has a firewire port and analog in and out. you can
use it to convert analog video to DV and send it to your PC. You can also use it to for viewing your
Vegas projects on an external monitior. Search for the Sony convertor on Ebay, it's the best way to get
it for cheap. There are also others that make similar convertors but I've never seen any reviews of
them.

Hope this helps. Also be sure to use Win2k. It's much faster with running video apps in my experience.