What is needed??

[D8TA]

I am completely new to this video capturing stuff. What are the minimum requirements I need and could someone give me some names of hardware I need that are good, TV Tuner cards/Capture cards, etc. Also some easy to use software. Thanks

[fmctm1sw]

1] A computer, which obviously you have
2] Some form of cap device (PCI/USB/IEEE-1394)
3] A CD/DVD recorder
4] Proper software to cap, convert (if needed), and burn.
5] PATIENCE

What exactly do you want to do?

[D8TA]

What I would like to do is take a 30-45 minutes sermon on Sunday morning from my minister using a VHS camcorder, don't have a digital camcorder yet but trying to work on that. I would like to then place the file on a web server for visitors to download if they would like to. Do you have any ideas that might make this an easy task?? Thanks for your response.

[fmctm1sw]

What I would like to do is take a 30-45 minutes sermon on Sunday morning from my minister using a VHS camcorder, don't have a digital camcorder yet but trying to work on that. I would like to then place the file on a web server for visitors to download if they would like to. Do you have any ideas that might make this an easy task?? Thanks for your response.

You may want a lot of compression to make it downloadable from the net. I'm unfamiliar with stuff like that. But in thebeginning, you'll have to get it to your computer somehow with the stuff I mentioned above.

[D8TA]

I've been really busy lately and am now reading to try this again. Is there any kind of system requirements? I am not sure if I need to get a new PC system basically I will be using an overclock Pentium processor running 240mhz, 64 meg RAM. I will be video taping a sermon that will run 30-45 mins and would like to take the video off the 8mm camcorder and place the file on a website so users can download the message. Roughly how much disk space will this take up? Can this be done with good results with the system specs above? I don't have a card yet but am looking for one...any recommendations? This is on a tight budget, most will be out of my pocket so I really don't need anything fancy. Thanks!