graphic card question

[pugvader]

Does a computers graphics card have any effect on the picture quality captured and burned or does it only affect the picture quality that shows on your screen? Meaning if I have a crapier card and I capture and it looks bad, once I burn it and play it on another system or dvd player it could possibaly look better? Or what you see is what you get?

[ROF]

No. How you capture is how it's viewed.

[pugvader]

No. How you capture is how it's viewed.

when you say viewed you mean viewed else where right? Cause if the capture is better quality it's viewing with less qaulity due to the poor graphic cards. I thought it was affecting my captures so I bought a new card.

[ROF]

You can buy a quality capture card and still capture in multiple formats depending on your settings. However you capture your video will be how it is played back. A different graphics card will not make any difference after the fact.

[TheFamilyMan]

Does a computers graphics card have any effect on the picture quality captured and burned or does it only affect the picture quality that shows on your screen?

If your video capture card/device is separate from your graphics card, i.e. you are not using a VIVO graphics card, the graphics card has nothing to do with the quality of the capture. The playback quality of ANY video media on your computer monitor is directly affected by your graphics card, regardless of the source of the video media. Thus if commercial DVDs look great but your captures look like crap, then your capture/convert process is at fault and not your graphics card. On the other hand if commercial DVDs look like crap, then it's impossible to say whether your captures are any good unless you view them on a totally different computer or a set-top DVD player connected to a TV (assuming your final format is DVD, of course).

[jagabo]

There is one other way a graphics card can effect your video captures. If you have a very old card, say a 1x AGP card or something older, displaying the video while you're capturing may take up too much bus bandwidth and CPU time. This could cause dropped frames while capturing.