Searching for Capture Card

[bald_rick]

Greetings.

New to the forum. I'm searching for a video capture card. There are certain abilities I am searching for:

1) Good quality (i.e. video source still looks like video source, etc).

2) NTSC and PAL supported.

3) TV (optional)

I was not too happy with the Radeon 7500 All-In-Wonder (Video looks like film). the Pinnacle DC10+ supports NTSC only. I am archiving old videos to DVD/VCD. Any suggestions?

[Toogy]

Canopus ADVC-1394 or ADVC-100

[leebo]

The reason you get that "film" look in your Radeon captures is because the card can't provide high enough resolution. It's probably software based capture.

You need a hardware based capture card.

You didn't mention what format your original video is on (VHS, MiniDV, etc.) or a budget.

[bald_rick]

Source is (S)VHS. Budget is as low as I can go (prefer undder $200).

[bani]

i gave up on all the crappy pci video capture cards etc and bought a Sony DVMC-DA2 off ebay.

quality is quite excellent, i'm very pleased with it. it has s-video in/out as well.

[D_Knife]

since you live in the USA and the DC-10+ is NTSC only - how much are you going to cap PAL stuff?

And if the answer is - enough to justify - by an Australian version - we have them here - they are PAL / NTSC and SECAM - and with your exchange rate the price might be good as well.
have a look

[epo]

"Film" look may be caused by low resolution. But only may. It is full frame capture and especially full frame MPEG conversion. If all lines are captured and video is converted using A or B field order, video should look like video, as it will effectively have 50(60) fps.

[avl1]

There is a "new generation" card as they call it by Prolink. Looks like it matches all your requirements. Check it out @ http://www.prolink.com.tw/new_web/products/multimedia/xcapture.htm

[Mirko]

A very simple (and cheap too) solution is an TV - Card. The most of them gots an composite - input (and the newer one's maybe an DV - input too).
I'm using a Pinnacle PCTV for two years now and it brings very good captures. A good tool for capturing is VirtualDub (Freeware, download it from the Tools - section at this site.
With my Pinnacle card I capture with real-time compression in DivX (max datarate) in VCD-size (352x288), encode it with TMPGEnc to VCD-compliant MPG, and it looks great.
Greetings, Mirko.

[bald_rick]

since you live in the USA and the DC-10+ is NTSC only - how much are you going to cap PAL stuff?

Over 200 PAL videos qualify me as enough to justify. I'll check down under. Thanks!