Need Advice on Sound/Video Card

[poppy56]

I have alot of VHS tapes of family events I want to put on cd and make a vcd. Can someone tell me what type of sound or video card do I need to transfer my vhs tapes to my computer?

[rhegedus]

Depends entirely on how you want to capture them.

If you have a Canopus ADVC or other firewire capture product then you only need a firewire port on your PC.

Therwise, you're goung to be capturing using a video/capture card, comparisons of which are found here:

https://www.videohelp.com/capturecards

Once you've done that, you may want to read:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=511227#511227

It's for VHS to DVD but the principle is the same.

Regards,

Rob