Capture Card: 720x480

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Capture Card: 720x480

Postby AMVUserII » Sat Dec 07, 2002 2:17 am

I'm lookin' now for a capture card than can capture at atleast a resolution of '720x480', without losing any quality, or little to none.

Price is not much of an issue here so all references are appreciated, also all helpful responses are aswell appreciated.
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Postby CArnesen » Sat Dec 07, 2002 12:01 pm

I will always be a fan of Firewire...
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Postby Quu » Mon Dec 09, 2002 11:50 am

Targa 3000

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Postby The Wired Knight » Mon Dec 09, 2002 12:23 pm

I'm with CArnesen, Firewire is the way to go, only one cable and the quality is amazing and most programs now recognize a firewire card, go with that. Pinnacle Firewire cards are pretty good.
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Postby TaranT » Tue Dec 10, 2002 3:47 am

Firewire's nice, but I don't think that helps A.Z. Firewire is just a cable/protocol for transferring data. You still need a digitizing device.

A.Z., take a look on the Hardware page at the reviews for the Sony Media Converter and the Dazzle DV Bridge. You can also use a camcorder that has a Firewire (aka IEEE-1394 or iLink) port and a video-input jack. You need the latter so you can transfer from the DVD to tape, and you'll probably need something to get around Macrovision, too.

The DV500-DVD will do the same without Firewire or an external converter if you use a PC. I suppose the Targa 3000 will, too; don't know much about that card.

These are all DV solutions. The other 720x480 codecs (MPEG2 and SVCD) are not really suitable for editing.
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Postby madmallard » Sun Dec 15, 2002 7:16 pm

targa 3000 is difficult to top. . . but since quu is busy, i'll elaborate on his behalf :wink:

the targa 3000 is a complete editing solution. It is a rack sized expansion card (translation, as long as your pc is.)

Its only supported by nt and 2k. it captures using hardware DV compression and dv25(whupass), hardware mpeg2(using 4:2:2) compression, and uncompressed in both RGB(with alpha) and YUV.

it also has balnced XLR audio connections and is a pretty good sound board, but also has digital.

it supports real-time eiditing effects, no rendering, for 3 layers in compressed video.

this burys the needle in most content creation, especially if authoring DVDs because of its mpeg2 power, which included uncompressed audio for mastering.
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Postby VicBond007 » Sun Jan 05, 2003 11:48 pm

Realtime effects in THREE LAYERS?! *reviews options*...
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