Capturing/Editing Software

[TurboMike]

I have a 1800XP, 256DDR, 60gig, Gigabyte MB, and ATI Radeon 7500 AIW. Ulead videostudio cam with it (can't get it to pull video), the ATI software isn't very good, virtualdub wont work without a wrapper and i heard it don't work well (with the wrapper). Any suggestions of software (perfer free) that i can use for capturing and editing? Anyone had luck with the unlead videostudio? Newbie needing help.

[bpjenn]

I use Ulead VideoStudio 6 with my Radeon at home and my 7500 at work. Best capture, editing, encoding software available for non professionals. I've tried them all-VideoWave 5, Studio Version 8, ArcSoft Showbiz, Sonic Foundry VideoFactory, etc. Version 6 is much easier and better-the upgrade is under $50. Also, add DVD MovieFactory for DVD authoring ($25).

[TurboMike]

The trouble i'm having with it, is capturing. I'm using a VCR with "composite". Any special settings or anything I should know about?

[bpjenn]

Did you try using the wizard-guide?

[Bstansbury]

I read this post because I'm interested in getting opinions about VideoStudio 6.xxx and comparing it to ATI AIW Radeon Capture. I have successfully captured in VS 5.0 and in ATI mmc 7.7.1. I just finished a burn of 1.5+ GB of SVCD 480x480 on to two CD-R's. I've updated to VideoStudio 6.xxx and in reading their news, they claim their new encoder is 46% faster than before. My question is,... has anyone compared the mpeg quality of VS 6.xx to ATI's MMC 7.7.x. Since both are real time and work with <1% dropped frames I could use either one.
ATI is easier to operate,... but VideoStudio has many more functions and features. I will have to use VideoStudio for editing as my time limit on TMPGen is running out. I don't want to buy anymore software,... if I can avoid it.

Thanks in advance,... sorry for jumping into the middle of this post.

[paulgab]

I'm also using UVS6 sometimes for capturing and mostly for editing and authoring using the DVD plug-in. The plug-in works great in creating simple menu and intro. While it maybe true that the latest patch improves the quality of the encodes and perhaps faster encoding. Still I wont use it transcode to VCD, SVCD/CVD. It is still better to use other encoder like TMPGenc, CCE, Ligos etc. I dont mind tweaking the settings in TMPGenc, once you get use to it, it will yield much better result.