HELP !!! What video capture card do I use.

douglasfin wrote on 11/14/2002, 2:28 PM

I have been going bananas. I need a video capture card that works with vegas video capture. I bought the pinnacle studio deluxe..(the one with the 1394 card)but vegas doesnt even recognize that I have a card... can someone recommend a card to get that works with vegas video capture. I am in the range of $1000 to $1300 . I would love to have a card that can take some of the strain off my pc.

I have a 2.4 ghz P4. Please help. Thanks

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jetdv wrote on 11/14/2002, 2:37 PM

Use any SIIG or Pyro OHCI 1394 cards. Less than $100 (and may be <$50).

Chienworks wrote on 11/14/2002, 2:57 PM

What sort of source equipment are you capturing from?

douglasfin wrote on 11/14/2002, 3:26 PM

I want to capture video from my VCR...SO I need analog inputs mostly. I need it to be great quality though... any card come to mind??

jetdv wrote on 11/14/2002, 3:39 PM

See my above answer but add the Canopus ADVC-100 convertor. (about $300)

OR, if you have a MiniDV camera, it may allow passthru converting your analog signal to firewire.

vonhosen wrote on 11/14/2002, 3:44 PM

A lot of people here use one of the Firwire cards previously mentioned to capture DV. If they then want to capture analog they either plug a DV camcorder into the firewire (A camcorder that has analog to digital passthrough [check camera because not all cameras have this feature]) then plug the analog source into the DV camera & use it for pass through conversion for digital
OR
Use a purpose built converter like the Canopus ADVC-100 for passthrough conversion.

Sorry bit of duplication there .... I must have been typing while the other message was posted :-)

douglasfin wrote on 11/14/2002, 10:17 PM

I REALLY appreciate the help.Will the Canopus ADVC-100 work with vegas capture (in other words will I be able to capture video within vegas?

CraigF wrote on 11/14/2002, 10:32 PM

I have an ADVC-100. It is an analog to DV converter and connects to a 1394 (Firewire) card. I'm using a SIIG card from CompUSA for $29.99.

The ADVC-100 acts like a digital camcorder. Windows XP sees it as such. Vegas (or VideoFactory in my case) captures through the 1394 card with the ADVC-100 doing the analog to DV conversion. Vegas doesn't really know about the ADVC-100, and doesn't need to.

Your captured video will be in DV format which uses 13GB per hour of video--you may already know that. :)

BTW, the ADVC-100 is $269-300.

Craig

PS. You mentioned "offloading" some of the processing. The ADVC-100 won't do this since you will probably want MPEG2 as your end format. That will be done through the MainConcept plug-in in Vegas which is a software encoder--100% CPU intensive.

douglasfin wrote on 11/14/2002, 10:36 PM

Thanks to you all... very cool forum indeed.

Spirit wrote on 11/15/2002, 12:18 AM

Osprey are great analog capture cards - cheap, reliable, good reputation.

http://www.viewcast.com/products/osprey.html

Jimnasium2002 wrote on 12/6/2002, 10:00 PM

I'm thinking about getting the Pinnacle Studio Deluxe for the video capture card and the breakout box. Can video be captured with the studio deluxe video capture card and then use VV3 to do the editing?

Is there anything that VV3 won't be able to do if I capture video with the Studio Deluxe card?

Thanks