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maxwell3
11th February 2003, 22:25
Im in need of a capture card or something like the dazel usb interface . Can someone please explain which is best suited to capturing vhs movies for transfer to dvd's . Thanks
hms
14th February 2003, 00:15
I am using a Pinnacle DC10 card with good results.
But this card only captures up to 640X480 - resizing for dvd is necessary but quite easy.
Dazzle is great but pricey.
Frisco
15th February 2003, 00:08
@hms

I have a Pinnacle DC10 card and the max is 768 x 576 (PAL).

Hej Frisco
hms
15th February 2003, 16:37
What capturing program do you use?
I've been able to use the DC10 card only in Studio 8.
There I have not been able to make it capture more than 640X480.
Frisco
15th February 2003, 23:43
@hms

I also use Studio 7/8 (and Windows 2000). This is the setting
I always use this setting (Studio 7):
hms
16th February 2003, 03:36
O.K.
for NTSC the card is limited to 640X480 -
DVD specs require 720X480 for NTSC: reseizing becomes necessary.
I use Fit2Disk which also takes care of the aspect ratio.
hms
21st February 2003, 21:41
I took the quality of the DC-10 card for granted.
Following suggestions on the forum I found that the cheapest TV card with the BT8x8 chipset and using the open source driver easily out-performs the Pinnacle card.
The only recommendation for the card is its hardware compression.
artful
22nd February 2003, 09:59
A review of some cards here:-

http://tangentsoft.net/video/mpeg/reviews/index.html