Question about what to use Vhs to DVD

[Tigersaw]

Im new to this and I just got the Sony DRU-500AX Hoping this is a good DVD R Drive. My question is I have a Abit AT7 Mother board. It has a built in Firewire connection. What do I need to hook up video from a VCR or Video Camera to copy them to DVD. Do i need a capture card if I have a Firewire is already on my MB? Let me know thanks...

[txpharoah]

You need a video capture card. A FireWire is a wire on a PC, not anythin to do with video. Video cameras just use them a lot. Transferring data from a camera to a PC with a FireWire cable is not "capturing" as most companies and people call it. That's a data transfer.

What you want it to get a good card (ATI is really nice; Canopus may be better; Matrox is good too, though expensive) and hook a VCR up to the RCA or S-Video cable inputs.

Easy as that. Sort of. Then you get to figure out the capture settings. And then encode settings. And the editing. And the authoring the DVDs.

Read or ask if you ever need to know anything. This site is pretty good these days, not much bogus info or dumb users anymore.

[Quigonsean]

I picked up the Aver Easy DVD capture card for 50bucks at my local CompUSA they also have it online. Its great 50bucks and it has S-Video in, and Composite in, as well as a RCA to 1/8 male cable for hooking up the audio to your sound card. It comes with NeoDVD Standar Fullversion to cap and all with, but I use WinDVR that came with my TV Tuner, and then Author with Maestro, SpruceUP, or DVD Workshop depending on my desired outcome.

Sean
Here it is http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=296679&pfp=BROWSE