Good Capture Card?

[AD421]

can someone tell me a good capture card thats not too expensive because i'm planning on buying one and i dont really want to spend a lot of money on it.

[skateni]

Go read the Capture Cards on the left. Every card has got it's pros and cons. I trawled thru it and finally settled on the CANOPUS ADVC-100. It's not a capture card where you stick inside your comp but an external unit that connects to a firewire port and converts analog video signals to DV AVI. It doesn't have any TV tuner built in ( I connect a VCR to it's inputs and use the VCR as a tuner ). It's a little pricier than run of the mill TV-tuner capture cards but the quality is excellent.

From the AVI, fire up your favourite editor to edit and you can encode it to any format you want and burn to CDs or DVDs, with the right software. Note that it doesn't come with any softwares but then again, different people have different opinions on the different softwares available out there.

I have gone thru a number of capture cards ( from the FlyVideo to the MyTV ) and none comes close to the ADVC-100. And looking back, I'd wish I've known abt the ADVC-100 sooner cause I spend more on the those capture cards.

That's my 2 cents worth anyways