HELP - Newbie to capturing

[klxracer]

OK, I have a Belkin VideoBus II USB running on my Dell Inspiron P4 1.8GHz notebook. I am losing a lot of frames and also seem to lose sync with the audio a lot of the time!?!

What I would like to know is, what sort of capture card should I purchase next? I want to be able to capture video and audio off VHS tapes and convert to VCD so that I can trash my old tapes. I have created VCD's off DVD's so have all of the VCD software required, all I am having trouble with is getting the raw AVI or MPEG footage captured onto my machine.

Any help will be MUCH appreciated.

Cheers,


PQ
Sydney, Australia

[twodogs]

USB capture devices are not the best. USB 2.0 is better, but few devices around.
Given you have a laptop, firewire card with Canopus ADVC-100 would probably be ideal - or other Analog to Digital converter - even a Sony DV Camera with Passthrough if you can get your hands on one - especially if VHS to VCD is a one-off.

In terms of your current capture, what format are you capturing to? AVI (Huffy/MJPEG) or MPEG ? What speed is your hard-disk? Defragged?

What resolution are you capturing? What software used to capture?