Newbie needs to know what he needs to buy.

[Brodie]

Hello everyone, I have a small problem. I have alot of home movies on my camcorder (Sony Hi8) and I want to be able to post them on my website. I have $80 to spend on the capture card (if that's what I even need ). I don't need anything really high end, I just want something I can transfer the videos onto my computer with so I can edit and convert them to MPEG's or something. Im looking for something thats decent but cheap (what an oxymoron).

[fmctm1sw]

Look under "capture cards" to your left. I have a wintv fm radio card. $60 ebay no remote....

[MrMungus]

Hello everyone, I have a small problem. I have alot of home movies on my camcorder (Sony Hi8) and I want to be able to post them on my website. I have $80 to spend on the capture card (if that's what I even need ). I don't need anything really high end, I just want something I can transfer the videos onto my computer with so I can edit and convert them to MPEG's or something. Im looking for something thats decent but cheap (what an oxymoron).

How fast is your computer?

[donpedro]

I am going to sugest Pinnacle Studio AV/DV 9 from Amazon.com. Some people complain about it but previous version 8 works fine for me.

[Brodie]

Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP1
CPU Speed: AMD Athlon XP 2500
Harddrive space: 60GB 7200RPM
RAM Memory: 1024MB PC3500
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce4 ti 4200 128MB
Motherboard: Abit NF7-S
CD Writer: Iomega CD-R 8-4-32

[Brodie]

What do you guys think of the Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge? I only ask because someone I know from the internet uses one of these and his videos looks pretty good.

Edit: Nevermind, looks like it has a $279 pricetag.

[MrMungus]

Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP1
CPU Speed: AMD Athlon XP 2500
Harddrive space: 60GB 7200RPM
RAM Memory: 1024MB PC3500
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce4 ti 4200 128MB
Motherboard: Abit NF7-S
CD Writer: Iomega CD-R 8-4-32

Well, I'm pretty sure you could get away with something like a cheap BT878 card (see the capture card list) which run about $50 because I think your computer is fast enough to do software MPEG-2 encoding on the fly. What you'd want is a card with some kind of MPEG-2 capture software bundled with it. Check out the capture card section, sort by price, then figure out where the price and features converge, then check to see what software comes with it (you don't want to get a card then have to spend $ to get software if you don't have to).

[Brodie]

What are some of the best ones these days in my price range? I looked at them but everyone seems to have alot of +'s and -'s.

[MrMungus]

What are some of the best ones these days in my price range? I looked at them but everyone seems to have alot of +'s and -'s.

I don't know what to tell you. When I was looking at video capture cads, I looked at how many people were commenting/buying them, then read the reviews on the most-bought ones, then bought 4 and returned all but 1.