Can someone recommend to me .....

[darkufo]

A card that will do the following and for the following purposes.

- Budget £1000 (around $1500)
- Allow me to realtime preview in Adobe Premier or at least speed them up
- Speed up my Premiere Exports to MPEG2 format
- Allow me to Capture from my Digital CAM
- Allow me to Capture from a Stardard Video Player
- Act as a MPEG2 Encoder/Decoder

I'm using
Windows XP Pro,
2*7,2000 60GB HDD
512 Mb of Memory

Any thoughts / links / experiances most welcomed

Cheers
Andy

[Mavrick]

I would look into The Pinnacle Systems DV500. It has real-time encoding, and has MPEG2 hardware encoding. The DV500 has 1394, SVideo, and RCA in and out on it as well.

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/ProductPage.asp?Product_ID=564&Langue_ID=7

We have these at work and they work well and will save hours in encoding!

[darkufo]

Thanks Maverick. I've seen thsi card and it does look like the business.

Thanks for the recommendation, much appreciated.

[darkufo]

Any other cards worth looking at ?