Help with capturing video from ATIx850 VIVO

[vafred]

I tried using Microsoft Video Maker, but is there a better utility to capture the video through.

I don't have a firewire port on my computer to do direct capture with say WinDV...
Must I really buy a firewire card to get a decent transfer of video and sound?

I tried searching but all I got was info on capturing with an AIW card and I don't have the ATI MMC software and the MMC software that you can download is not compatible with my card.

What would you suggest?

[Richard_G]

Your card is an AIW but without the TV tuner so MMC intended for the X850 based AIW should work with yours.

But, if you intend transferring from a DV source, buy yourself a Firewire card. The quality you will get with a direct digital copy from camcorder tape to hard drive is going to be far better than doing a software conversion from analogue to digital and back to analogue again.