Video Capturing

[DHeng]

Hi everyone,

I bought a video capture card on Newegg.com to backup my VHS tapes onto my HD and then burn the file onto DVD. I'm having some problems with the audio being too low and frame rate skips.

Anyone can recommend a capture card that's pretty good as well as recommending any good software to use regarding the matter?

Or should I just invest in a DVD recorder deck instead of using a computer?

Thanks everyone for your input

 

[RelaxTheMind]

video capture is gonna be as good as the program you are using. you can use a simple video in on some video cards and line in on the generic onboard audio (both of which i use). I use Pinnacle Studio 9? for the capture from my hi8 camera. works flawlessly. Had similar problems to what you speak of and a simple driver update fixed it all.

Another suggestion is if your system is beefy enough to capture... if your capture card is just a VIVO or if it actually buffers the AV. slower computers tend to skip frames to catch up. What are your system specs?

BTW: what capture card did you get?

 

[Wolfshanze]

Which capture card did you get?

I have a good capture card myself, but the Audio was very low... I ended up just getting an adapter to run my VCR Audio phono jacks into a stereo mini-plug and directly plugged my audio from the VCR to the Line-in on my sound card. The Audio levels jumped significantly since I bypassed the audio-in lines on my capture card.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

check out this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1522208&enterthread=y

 

[shock311]

I recently backed up my parents old VHS home videos to a dvd as a xmas present and I used the Leadtek Expert winfast capture/tuner card, quality came out fairly nice. Cheap card, only around $50 when I bought it. I used the software bundled with the card, I set audio to be my master stream and didn't have any problems. To note, this card has its own mpeg encoder so it doesn't utilize the cpu that much say compared to a AIW card. Thats all you need and it should work out great, I then used some cheapo software (dvdx maker) to create the dvds.

 

[racefan]

I use a PVR 150 to capture. The image is very good but sound is a bit loude on capture so you have to turn down TV a bit but I can live with that for good image quality and nice quality sound except being louder that incoming. I use ulead programs to transfer to DVD. I use DVD workshop 2 and movie factory 3 from ulead. Both work great

 

[DHeng]