Capturing 640 x 480 uncompressed... but with what card?

[Marquis Dynamo]

How reliant are they on software that comes with the cards? I heard the Pinnacle card is very evil and hard to capture with aside the software that comes with it.

I'm mostly looking at the AverTV or ATI TV Wonder.

You can click the button for my computer specs. I want to capture 640 x 480 uncompressed. Would it be possible with my computer, and with those cards? If so, which would be better for that?

What I'm looking to capture is mostly a half an hour (more then likely less, bordering on 20 mins.) of cartoons.

[fmctm1sw]

How reliant are they on software that comes with the cards? I heard the Pinnacle card is very evil and hard to capture with aside the software that comes with it.

I'm mostly looking at the AverTV or ATI TV Wonder.

You can click the button for my computer specs. I want to capture 640 x 480 uncompressed. Would it be possible with my computer, and with those cards? If so, which would be better for that?

What I'm looking to capture is mostly a half an hour (more then likely less, bordering on 20 mins.) of cartoons.

dude, I can cap uncompressed at 640x480 on my celeron 366. Judging by your computer, you must have some cash to sink into a card. I have a wintv radio card but you may want to check out Canopus' cards. Look up ADVC-100 or maybe even better the ADVC-50 and get yourself a good DV capture card.

[hardrock]

dude, I can cap uncompressed at 640x480 on my celeron 366. Judging by your computer, you must have some cash to sink into a card. I have a wintv radio card but you may want to check out Canopus' cards. Look up ADVC-100 or maybe even better the ADVC-50 and get yourself a good DV capture card.

what program you use to capture?

[fmctm1sw]

dude, I can cap uncompressed at 640x480 on my celeron 366. Judging by your computer, you must have some cash to sink into a card. I have a wintv radio card but you may want to check out Canopus' cards. Look up ADVC-100 or maybe even better the ADVC-50 and get yourself a good DV capture card.

what program you use to capture?

I use either either vdub or freevcr. I had avi_io but it expired on me after about 2 days. WTF? I usually don't cap 640x480 because I can't compress it and it gets too bit. I have windows 2K and the btwincap (wdm?) driver with my wintv radio. I only capped a few minutes though at 640x480 so maybe I won't be able to sustain it. I don't know, but when I tried other resolutions that DIDN'T work, I dropped frames immediately.

[hardrock]

about AVI_IO, you can download it again and you can use it for plus one more month...

[coda304]

AverTV or ATI TV Wonder are both junk!!! They will not allow caps over 352x240 and audio sync is horrible with both.

Both cards are on my long list of cards that I have tried/returned…

[fmctm1sw]

Yes, I would certainly do your homework BEFORE you buy a card. Read over the reviews but understand there is a lot of conflicting advice in them. Look at all the features (like S-video, composite inputs, etc.) you will need for what you want to do. Unless you really know what you're getting yourself into, buy one from a place you can return it (see coda's post).

[Marquis Dynamo]

Thank you very much. I've definitly done some looking up on things. Was mostly concerned with Drivers and compatability, since this is an XP baised comp...

Hopefully things will work out well!

[crjackson]

I use the Pinnacle DC10+ / Studio 7 to capture 640x480. I have not video/audio sync problems. With proper updates installed it works flawless in WinXP for me.

I also capture 720x480 using firewire card and sony digital passthrough on my Digital8 recorder. This gives great results too (most of the time) but I do get some video/audio sync problems on certain tapes(movies) for some strange reason. I can capture over and over angin with the same resulting problem, in the exact same spot. I think it may be related to the conversion from analog to digital (I think digital can ADD frames where tape is bad or something like that), and it's my theroy this causes the problem.

When I take the tape that's giving me a sync problem and capture through the DC10+ the problems are all solved.

I wish I knew what causes this, but the bottom line is the DC10+ works better at dealing with odd problems like that. I don't really find the final product from the DC10+ to have less visiual quality either.

Oh yeah, I don't convert the capture to MPEG2 using studio 7. There MPEG2 coding suck hard... I edit the file (with studio) the save back to a new AVI file, and transcode to MPEG2 using Cinema Craft. Results are damn nice.

I'm a newbie, and it's taken me a couple of months to work this routine out but I get good results.

I jsut wish someone could tell me for sure why the firewire captures SOMETIMES go out of sync for about 1-2 minutes, and then it seems to re-sync.

[hardrock]

I've tried to capture 640 x 480 uncompressed and not got sync problems. But with PicVideo quality 18 I get. Why it's happening? Any ideas?