Inputting Analog Video to Computer

Rolander wrote on 10/10/2002, 2:33 PM
I'm a newbie to video and recently got a new computer with an nVidia gForce 4 Ti card. I want to use Vegas to work with old analog video recordings to eventually archive them in DVD format but have no idea how to input them into my computer. There are no inputs on my video card. I have all the normal types of inputs including USB 1.0 and 2.0. What is the easiest and most economical way of doing this will minimal degradation of the signal?

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jetdv wrote on 10/10/2002, 3:05 PM
Try this:

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=116840

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=118431

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=109279
ralphied wrote on 10/10/2002, 3:40 PM
I recently purchased the Canopus ADVC-50 for $200 and it does a great job of converting any analog source to DV format (same format used in DV camcorders.) If you don't have a DV camcorder yet, and are thinking about buying one, consider a higher end model that has the analog input. These normally run about $100 more than the models that don't have the analog input. The camcorder will then serve the same function as an external converter such as the Canopus ADVC-50. Don't try getting a analog converter video card such as the ATI All-in-Wonders. You'll get very frustrated trying to figure out the best setting and you'll be disappointed with the final results.
HardWare wrote on 10/10/2002, 4:10 PM
For beginers MSI as a product caled tv@nywher it as a conexian cx23881 chipset with great features and it encodes in mpeg4. The only flaw (witch i will be aible to live with) the sound is captured only in 10bits. You can get it for 80$ canadian wich is like 2 or 3$ american.
www.msicomputer.com
HeeHee wrote on 10/10/2002, 4:52 PM
Ditto what Ralph said. The Canopus products are the best on the market and I higly recommend them. I have the ADVC-100 which is an external device that connects to a firewire card instead of being an add-in card like the ADVC-50. It also lets you go back out to analog so you could use it to send out to an external monitor or to record on VHS. If you do not need to go back out to an analog source then the ADVC-50 is all you need.