Is there any firewire capture device for analog signals?

[Thorn]

Just to be clear I don't want to buy a new DV cam that has analog passthrough...

What I do want is to replace my capture card (AIW 128) but still be able to capture rca and cable signals with quality as good or better. I have a firewire card so it would make sense if there was an external capture device (none of that usb crap -- I've heard bad things about those and no non-professional hardware encoder will match the quality of TMPGenc). The thing is I'd like to continue to capture in huffyuv at d1 resolution so I can encode and filter later.

I know firewire can support the bandwidth for raw video (by a factor or 2-3) but I don't know if anyone makes anything like that. Am I better off just getting a PCI tv card?

Thanks

[Obsidian01]

I would check out the canopus line.
The advc-100
The advc-50
The advc 1394

[Anonymous65]

There are several Firewire capture boxes that will give you uncompressed video, or DV as they call it. It also has the audio capture onboard, and use the DV standard for audio. Sony has a unit, and ther eis also another unit that is popular, can't remember the name. They are both around $300. They will deliver uncompressed 24 bit video at 720x480 pixels with stereo audio via the firewire connection. Do a search for analog to DV converters.

[Thorn]

Thanks for your responses, but I guess I was hoping for something cheaper than $300 (I guess I should stick with PCI cards if I want cheaper...).

In addition, DV isn't actually uncompressed. It's compressed 5:1 and is slightly lossy. I try to use only lossy codecs in my capture and encode process, because you loose quality if you convert between lossy codecs too many times (of course the amount of loss may be small, it depends).

Anyway, I'm thinking I'll probably go with pci capture card.