About to get a new capture device... WHICH ONE????

[mol3000]

i am getting a new capture card and its gonna be used for more my laptop than anything else.... plus i wanted something external anyway.... the choices is below.... do anyone have these or no anything better


- ADS Technologies USB Instant DVD - USBAV-700
http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?b=0&e=11092112&m=488&cat=521&scat=1751

- Dazzle DVD Creation Station 200 - DM-7200
http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?b=0&e=11122311&m=488&cat=521&scat=1751

[Greg12]

Do you have a firewire bus in your laptop?

If you have a firewire bus, get a dazzle dv bridge or a dv camcorder with analog in-dv out or some other sort of analog-digital device.


If you dont have a firewire bus, add one through PCMCIA.


USB is not the way to go, it just doesn't have enough bandwith.

Usb has like 12, with 4 megs devoted to the system

Firewire has 400megs.

[mol3000]

no i dont and i think i saw something on there about a firewire pmcia but it was like 79 dollars..... dont no if thats for da card alone or just the card and capture device......so u sayin if i wanted to catch video from my direct tv that usb wouldnt be accaptible???????????

[lusid]

As far as USB bandwidth, sure, it's too slow for DV. But these devices are outboard hardware mpeg encoders. They should be perfectly happy on 3-4mbps of bandwidth capturing DVD ready mpeg-2 streams.

I've seen the ADS box in action, and it looked pretty good. I didn't get to do any extensive testing on it though. I haven't seen the dazzle device so I can't compare. I still haven't forgiven Dazzle for the original USB Digital Video Creator, so I'll probably never touch another dazzle product in this lifetime.

[Anonymous65]

What are you going to do with the video you capture?

Are you going to capture video and burn it directly to a VCD, SVCD or DVD? If so, then the ADS will work, or any other USB capture device with a hardware mpeg encoder.

But, are you going to edit the video, add titles or effects, then you need to capture AVI video. The USB port will not work for this unless you want to use very low quality 320x240 video. DV capture via a firewire port is possible, but you need some real horse power to capture and de/recompress DV video. Also, the DV video capture devices are expensive, like $300. The Dazzle is your best bet here.

If you have a low or medium powered laptop, I would go with the hardware mpeg encoder via the USB port.

[mol3000]

yes.... i have a compaq 1.2 ghz, 256 mb laptop and is gonna capture from my ultimate direct tv receiver and burn the movies to dvd or vcd.... but i am gonna add menus to it..... thats about it...... i am also gonna start capturing from vcr's very soon :P

[Anonymous65]

Get a USB device with a hardware encoder. The authoring software will allow you to add menus before you burn your video.

[mol3000]

i no firewire is suppose to be the best when capturing but when should i use firewire and when should i use usb ??????????

[mol3000]

is there one with a firewire and usb...... so i can have some kinda selection

[SHS]

I would count on it mol3000 with USB1.1 but with USB2 and Firewire that maybe a possable but I haven't scene anything at this time.
Oh as for ADS Technologies USB Instant DVD and the WinTV PVR USB and some of first Pinnacle Bungee DVD is also use the some iCompression iTVC12 chipset.