Spec and software required for capturing video

[martyn]

I have just finished a block at college which showed us how to capture video from a VCR using Adobe Premiere and a vid capture card (which at home i do not have).

I am planning to put all my favourite Simpson cartoons on VCDs using Premiere. How would i go about this and what hardware and extra software would i require.

[Braindrain]

Weren't you just taught that?

You've already answered your own question in your message. The only difference is that many capture cards come with their own software.

[Cart Wheel]

You just need a reasonably fast system and a video capture card. The WinTV-Go works okay for me. As for capturing software, you can use AVI_IO (trialware) or VirtualDub (freeware), both of which will probably work much better than Premiere. For encoding to MPEG-1 for the VCD, I suggest using TMPGEnc.
If you need any help with your cartoon captures, you might want to check out my video guide:
http://www.geocities.com/lukesvideo/index.html

-Cart
http://www.geocities.com/lukesvideo/index.html

[Craig Fuqua]

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My experience: I have a PII 350 and cannot use AVI_IO or VirtualDub because the video buffers fill up almost instantly. However, I can capture all I want with no dropped frames at VCD resolution if I use the software that came with my Pinnacle capture card.
BTW, visit alt.binaries.tv.simpsons and snag one of the excellent "VCD by 'O'" posts. Incredible quality for a VCD. Too bad his old ones are repeats ...

[Cart Wheel]

Craig,

That sounds like a case of poor drivers. There's no reason why a card shouldn't work just as well in AVI_IO/VirtualDub as in other programs. The drivers are probably using a VFW -> WDM wrapper. Have you tried upgrading to the latest version of the capture drivers, preferably with true VFW capture support?

I'd check out one of those VCDs, by there's a post missing from my new server. Oh well.

-Cart
http://www.geocities.com/lukesvideo/index.html