capture card...

[ssjneo]

Ok for my needs if narrowed it down to these two cards.
Pinnacle Studio PCTV pro
Pinnacle DC10 Plus
Which one do you think is better? Sry for askign so many cap card questions.

[Anonymous65]

The two are totally differenet cards. The PCTV is a plain AVI video capture card using the BT8x8 chip. You need a lot of hard drive space and a fast CPU. The DC10+ is a hardware Mjpeg compression card, where the compression is done by the card itself. Last time I checked, there are only a few capture resolutions available, and 352x240, 480x480, and 720x480 were not an available option. It's basically a 640x480 capture card. Try the new version of the DC10+, the Studio AV7, it has many more options, including a internal software mpeg-1/2 compressor. You get the DC10+ card, and the new software capture suite that has a nice editor, where you can output your movie to video tape, save the file as AVI, streaming media file format, or mpeg. This is a nice stand alone video production package where you can make VCDs, SVCDs, and DVD quality video ($129)

[Arepiv]

I think all depends of your output project format:
- if you stay with mjpeg than DC10 it a pretty good option with fast and good results
- if you plan to further encode to mpeg1 or mpeg2 (VCD, S-VCD, ...) than you may want to go with the PC TV Pro. The result is supposed to be better because you don't have 2 times lossy compressions.

Arepiv