good video capture hardware = ?

[Kaido]

I've been using Pinnacle Studio 8 as my main movie editor. The hardware it came with is pretty good - a PCI card with a breakout box for composite and s-video. The software itself is decent too, but it's INCREDIBLY buggy. Crash crash crash crash crash. Then I lost my discs, but I still have the hardware, so oh well.

So, I want to try something different. Maybe Vegas or something. But what's good video capture hardware? I still have some tapes I want transfer to DVD, and add some titles and stuff as well. While I'm at it, what's some good, non-Pinnacle video editing software?

 

[warcrow]

Get Studio 9 Pro or whatever is called (the newest one out) and a Dazzle. I have a Dazzle DV150 and it works great for capturing. I mena, thats the simple and logic upgrade. If you're willing to suffer a steep learning curve and pay more money, Liquid Edition 5.5 (6 is on its way) and is much much more powerful. Its the equivolent of Adobe Premier.

 

[igowerf]

I recently got Adobe Premiere Elements. It offers capture capability, editing, and DVD authoring. Amazon has it for $95-ish minus a $20 rebate. You can probably use it with your capture card.

 

[blurredvision]

I have the AverMedia DVD EZMaker USB2.0. I've had it for about 6 months now, but I've only used it once. But that one time it worked great. I even used it on a comp that had lower specs than their system requirements. At the time, it sucked because my main comp was more than able to run over their requirements, but when I got the thing, it had a small addition in the back of the manual that said it wasn't compatible with the KT333 chipset (and 1 other). And wouldn't you know it, that's what I had. So it wouldn't work no matter what I did, so I used it on the comp downstairs.

 

[ZoNtO]

Anything by hauppauge