Best Video/capture Card(that Is Compatible With Adobe Premiere

[EDJ]

I WANTED SUggESTIONS FOR THE BEST CAPUTURE/gRAPHICS/ VIDEO CARD THAT IS COMPATIBLE WITH ADOBE PREMIERE. I HAVE DONE RESEARCH AND THE ATI ALL IN WONDER 9600 PRO AND 9800 PRO SOUND LIKE THEY WOULD BE OF AN EXCELLENT CHOICE BUT THEY ARE NOT LISTED HERE:

https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/cards.html

IS THERE A CHOICE OUT FOR A CARD THAT'S gOOD TO CAPTURE DIgITAL AND ANALOg VIDEO, AND gOOD FOR 3-D gRAPHICS? N-E ADVICE OR LINK WOULD HELP.

[rsquirell]

Premiere is an expensive storyboard editor...and I haven't seen too many people in this forum who use it. Adobe has a website and a premiere forum...those users are who you should be asking this question of.

[EDJ]

THANKS MAN. AND ALL THIS TIME I THOUgHT PEOPLE KNEW PREMIERE WAS A STANDARD FOR EVERYBODY TO USE.

[rsquirell]

Really?...Gee...I can do anything you can do with ULead VS7 for 1/5 the price...and I can capture in MPEG2 ( 1/5 the size)...and it's very simple to use.

[EDJ]

^IS THAT RIgHT? WHO MAKES IT? AND HOW DO YOU KNOW? IS THE QUALITY THE SAME? CAN YOU LINK ME TO A SITE THAT MAKES A COMPARISON?

[rsquirell]

Download a 30 day trial version and see for your self...you can find it on the ULead site. I use it all the time. You can feed your videos into the story board or timeline...it creates titles and transitions with ease...you can easily feed a song in from a CD and set it in the timeline...It'll capture DV thru the firewire in MPEG2 format ( 1/5 the size of .avi...1 hour .mpg= 1-4GB, 1 hour .avi= 12+ GB depending on bitrate of capture). It costs $90 vs the Premeire at $500

[rsquirell]

It'll even build the DVD VIDEO_TS files you can use to transport into DVDShrink to size your video as much as 50% smaller without discernable loss of quality...and it'll burn your DVD, too, if you want.

[EDJ]

^HOW ABOUT EFFECTS AND COMPATIBAILITY WITH PROFESSIONAL PROgRAMS LIKE "ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS"? AND CAN YOU LINK ME TO THIS ULEAD SITE?

[rsquirell]

Type "Ulead" into the Google search engine. Download a trial version and check out the transitions for yourself. You can also do an overlay ( video in a video) and voice over dub.

[EDJ]

^THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOME SIMPLE STUFF. SO HOW'S THE QUALITY?

[rsquirell]

Quality is always in the eye of the beholder. To me, I see no discernable difference between output and source.

[EDJ]

THANKS FOR THE ADVICE. I'LL SEE WHAT YOU STRESSIN' EVEN THOUgH I ALREADY HAVE PREMIERE AND AFTER EFFECTS.

[rsquirell]

Since you already have it you may as well keep it...but I find Adobe products over-priced and difficult to work with. Their $500 Photoshop is another example. Super complicated and I got frustrated trying to get it to perform simple tasks. Ulead PhotoImpact will do almost the same thing, is easy to use, and costs $90. They also have a great GIF animator, Cool 3D, and a bunch of other neat video products that make idiots (like me) look like stars.

[EDJ]

^YOU AND ULEAD gO WAY BAK. PHOTOSHOP IS EASY TO USE AND IF YOU KNOW SOMEBODY, YOU CAN gET THE HOOK UP. ULEAD SOUND LIKE SOME WANNA-BE ADOBE.

[rsquirell]

LOL...perhaps...but I was trying to crop a person out of a photograph and I got totally confused with all the vectors and layers. With ULead scaple tool...zip...it was done. Perhaps the people who can master the complex Adobe products aren't artistic enough to use them to their full potential...but their animated GIF's don't look any better than those I've seen posted by other non-users.