What are the XP users doing for video capture?

[Lomar]

I recently bought the Pinnacle Studio DV firewire/software package for capturing video from my Sony D8 camcorder.

I upgraded to XP and discovered that the Studio DV software isn't supported under XP, but Studio 7 is...for an additional cost.

Right......

Obviously, Movie Maker kinda sucks, but does anybody have a somewhat basic video capture program they're using under XP?

Anybody have Premier 6 running on XP? Is there a favorite? Is there one that everyone hates?

Thanks!!

[homerpez]

Virtual-Dub works very nicely, so long as your capture drivers are properly installed. I use it quite a bit with the Huffy codec. Works as well in XP as in 2000.

Basically, since you mentioned Premiere... if your capturing works there, it'll also work in V-Dub since it's more or less using the same drivers (at least it does no my AIW Radeon), only V-dub has much less overhead going on...

[TIbrO]

I use AVI_IO for capturing and Adobe Premiere 6 for editing the stuff.
I use a Matrox Marvel G400 which captures video out of the box with native XP drivers and everything.

[tinycorkscrew]

Virtual Dub won't do DV, will it? I thought DV AVI's weren't recognized in Virtual Dub.

Movie Maker is actually very good if you play around with the settings a little bit. The 2mbps 640x480 setting makes very goodlooking videos.

Premiere works just fine on XP, although for no-frills capturing, DVIO (freeware) is the best - it's a very small program - 64k maybe - and it doesn't drop frames for me at all whereas Premiere will from time to time for no apparent reason.

[Shabubu]

Don't suppose you could post a link for that proggie could you.