I need video capture hardware with certain specs

infernal0321 · Post by **infernal0321** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 3:59 pm

Ik people have been asking about capture cards and what not on this board but I need some help. First off I don't even know what type of hardware to get, I've been hearing about capture cards alot but is there something else that's better or are capture cards the way to go? I need something that can give me decent resolution (Me hate pixelized pictures!!! RARGH), can import as Mpeg (doesn't matter which type), is compatable with windows movie maker(I'm too cheap for anything better) and goes for around $100. If there isn't anything that fit these specs I'm just about screwed

and I'm kinda curious what's considered your average price for video capture hardware? thanks in advance

aznfs · Post by **aznfs** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:32 pm

u can grab prices for capture cards @ pricewatch

if u dun want pixelied crap u need to cature under loseless, meaning u need a large hd

but if ure just capturing off dvd, all u need is a dvd rom and a ripping program.... and a large harddrive

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:14 am

infernal0321, what you are asking are two questions in one - to me:
... I see that people have been asking about capture cards ...
... I don't even know what type will do this ...
... a decent resolution ( 512 X 384 ) ... <a href="http://www.streamload.com/merlins_magic/K-of-H commercail.avi">like this encode</a> without pixelized pictures ( which this has ~_~ ) ...
... the video can be imported as Mpeg ...
... is compatable with windows movie maker, for around $100·°° ...
... soo, what's considered your average price for video capture like "that" these days?

Answer: almost any capture card can do what your asking, even an ATI Radion 7200
and aznfs is exactly correct ... a Large Hard Drive Space is required
anytime your are Capturing Video.

the file I encoded, <a href="http://www.streamload.com/merlins_magic/K-of-H commercail.avi">which is this encode</a>, was a 60 meg Capture in MPEG-2 and became
a 6 meg AVI "with the wrong bit-rate settings" after only 3 minutes of prep-time.

soo, the question that you must ask yourself is; how much time and Hard Drive
space do "I" need for what I'm about to do and is my computer new enough
to do the job!??

for 24 minutes of "capture time" your computer will need:

1.677 gig of hard drive space for Nvidia MPEG-2 capturing at 512 X 384

.977 gig of hard drive space for ATI MPEG-2 capturing at 512 X 384

2.334 gig of hard drive space for Panisonic 1080i MPEG-2 capturing at 512 X 384

and these are just the average capture file sizes - not the cleanest and clearest settings have been used!!!
--- for that to happen, basically double the capture sizes.

... a good capture card -vs- Windows Movie Maker ... ... ... hmmm

narcted · Post by **narcted** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:24 am

The ADS DVD Xpress is $99 and comes with Ulead Video Studio 7. It captures at 720x480 resolution mpeg-2. It's a USB plug in box.

infernal0321 · Post by **infernal0321** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:58 pm

post-it wrote:soo, the question that you must ask yourself is; how much time and Hard Drive
space do "I" need for what I'm about to do and is my computer new enough
to do the job!??

Ik Ik, I'm too cheap for proper video editting software.... I have plenty of room on my harddrive to do the job but when you say I should ask myself if my comp is new enough to do the job, how powerful do you think my machine has to be?

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:03 pm

I would suggest at least 800mhz to get by, the more ram the marrier with 64mb being the least.