Capture card/device benefits?

[bigskipper]

I have spent a lot of time capturing my dv and vhs tapes to my hard drive. I have been successfull at the capture, conversion and the authoring so far. I haven't needed to post on the forum yet, having learned from researching other's posts.

I am looking into buying a capture device/card like the canopus advc-100, but am not sold on the benefits yet. I am using just a generic firewire card right now that I connect my camcorder to, then I connect my camcorder to my vcr, but don't know if I'm missing out on something better in the firewire card area. So, here's my question:

How would a capture device like the canopus advc-100 or similar benefit my dv and vhs captureing above just going strait to my firewire card. Does it make the video clearer?

Also, I know that I need a firewire card to connect the canopus to my computer. Will just any cheap firewire card do, or would I benefit by buying a brand-name firewire card. The current firewire card hasn't malfunctioned, but I don't know if generic is the best, having not used any other firewire card.

Thanks for any advice any other users my have.

Daron

[teegee420]

I think you should leave well enough alone and stick with what you have. You don't even know how fortunate you are to have a DV cam with analog pass-through. Unless you want to be able to capture directly to mpeg-2, I don't see a single reason why you should get a capture card.

[rcb]

Agree with Teegee.

Even tho I use a 100 (as I don't have a camvcorder with pass-thru) can't see much if any addt'l benefit for you as you say you are doing OK now.