Need help choosing Analog Video Capture card, please help.

[va_bank]

Hello,

I have been editing video shot with my digital camcorder for a while now. After seeing the results, my family asked me to put some old (Analog cam, VCR) videos on DVD for them. My only capture card is FireWire (No analog video inputs)

I'd like to get a card that would allow me to create AVIs or DVD compliant MPGs from non-digital camcorder or VCR. Can you please suggest any hardware that is under $200?

Thanks,

VaBank

[medievil]

anything BT848,BT878, etc based is excellent. I've yet to see any Analog capture card beat the quality.
You could probably get a used Wintv card on ebay for under $20
You can then capture to a lossless codec and using CCE or Tmpgenc, encode it to MPEG

[jtor]

I'd suggest that you bump your budget up a little, and go for a Canopus ADVC-100.

[Toogy]

Or the ADVC-1394, it's a bit cheaper and has the same quality. Only drawback is that you can't send your output back to analog.