need help choosing a video capture card

[ams30gts]

what i want to do is put my VHS tapes to DVD. ive sen so many different ones, but i dont know which one to get. they range from like $50 to $300 from what i have seen. what makes a good capture card other than what resolution it captures in? i need one that does 720x480 (dvd ntsc). im willing to spend around the $100 mark or less. any suggestions?

 

[ams30gts]

i came across this one. http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=14-122-132

does anyone know what the max capture resolurton is on this badboy? doesnt say on newegg or on leadtek site

 

[Gibson486]

for $300, get this

it is a much better solution

most capture card have that resolution

what makes a good capture card? If it captures via hardware. Most capture cards on teh market that peopel are aware of only capture in software, soem stat ethat they are hardware assisited, but if they are, then that hardware is not doign much to make a difference.

 

[ams30gts]

that card is beautiful. but i cant afford $300. i wish i could. i have access to any software, so i think imma probally go with the leadtek card. anyone know anything about that one in my above post?

 

[Maelsturm]

that is probably good if you have a big HD, so you can capture to some minimal compression format then encode that into a more efficient format.

 

[ams30gts]

just picked it up for $61. not bad considering its $99 at frys

 

[vegetation]

Great item. The hardware encoding will even look better than the software stuff, which would take forever to encode plus you need lots and lots of disk space for those junkie capture cards, which just dump raw avi's to your hard drive.

Originally posted by: Gibson486
for $300, get this

it is a much better solution

most capture card have that resolution

what makes a good capture card? If it captures via hardware. Most capture cards on teh market that peopel are aware of only capture in software, soem stat ethat they are hardware assisited, but if they are, then that hardware is not doign much to make a difference.

 

[farmercal]

ams30gts I have that ledtech card and it's will work fine for what you want. I have used it to input home videos from my 8mm camcorder and it works just fine once you get it all hooked up properly. The resolution I capture at is 640 x 480 which is MPEG 2 optimum quality setting. I don't know if it will go higher than that but that seems just fine for a one to one capture for making a VCD or DVD. For the money you can't beat this card.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: ams30gts
i came across this one. http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=14-122-132

does anyone know what the max capture resolurton is on this badboy? doesnt say on newegg or on leadtek site

linked

 

[beatle]

Anyone know if this card can capture in SVCD's native resolution of 480x480 with a cap for the bitrate? It looks to be a decent solution for both watching TV and capturing to mpeg2 if it can do this.

 

[ams30gts]

im sure it can capture SVCD. well i hope so.


i currently have adobe premiere. what other programs do u guys use for capturing VHS? or what is the best in your opinion?