What board would you recommend to bring video in

[fishfly]

I am buying a Pioneer A03, and want to bring in video from my VCR. I looked at the Instant DVD and it looks good, but some video I want to edit in Premiere. Just want a simple board that offers great quality , no frame droppage, and gives me the information in a editable format, like avi format. Then I can use the TMPG to encode it to MPEG2.
I am using a Pent3 600 128 ram.

[omarh]

I'd get the Dazzle DV Bridge and a firewire card.

I've never been able to get better results than convert video to DV

I've used those stupid capture cards for the PC, hauppage etc...they all suck

[magnoliafan]

Depends on OS

Hi,
In my experience, it depends on what OS you are running. If you are running XP, 2000, or ME, the Dazzle should be fine. I tried using it on 98 SE and it had some issues. Getting it to install and work was a nightmare. It never really worked properly (the diagnostic software couldn't always see the card, much less complete successfully when it did!).

On XP, though, it works like a champ. I did some captures from laserdisc and the results are really excellent. I did have to run a deinterlace filter though to pretty up the picture (some horizontal line noise I assumed as attributed to lines of resolution being lower on LD than DVD).

I am using MGI Videowave 4.0, which is pretty decent, but it can only handle files up to 4 GB in size (conforming to the old NT 4.0 limitation on file size). I hear 5.0 has no limits, which would be good because at the resolution I did, 4GB is only about 20 minutes or so of something. I wound up with like 6-8 files per movie! Then you have to combine them, compress them... a lot of work. Never got Adobe Premiere to work - it crashed a lot on W98 and I haven't tried it again on XP.


Still working out some bugs on making a DVD of my results, though.