Video Card for DV capture and DVD burning

[texazed]

I have a DV camcorder and a bunch of tapes I want to put on DVD now that my new computer has 1394 and DVD RW.

I am currently using on board video and want to get a good video card for video capture and editing. Do different GPU's help more or less with this or is is mainly a CPU function since I'll be using firewire?

I have another question on the software board about DVD creating software if you could help there too.

Thanks in advance.

 

[LethalWolfe]

GPU don't mean crap. HDD speed for capturing and proc speed for rendering FX and converting DV movies into MPEG-2 for DVD burning is where it's at.


Lethal

 

[texazed]

So it is only important in playback, right?

 

[crazydave]

Yup, if I'm not mistaken, when you're capturing, you're just copying DV data from your camcorder tape to your hard drive through firewire/1394... fast HD/CPU is important in capturing and MPEG2 conversion...

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by: texazed
So it is only important in playback, right?

It's really not imporant at all. Video is all 2D so a big guns 3D card won't do anything for you.


Lethal