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Advice on whic graphic card - 6/12/2005 4:39:24
Hi, I've been wanting to dump all our family video's (box full) onto the PC then DVD.
My PC currently has the "NVIDIA GeForce MX 4000 128Mb" graphic card.
Could anybody please advise of a reasonably priced but good Graphic Capture Card. Is it best to keep the Nvida card and get a separate GCC or All in one? There are so many out there and this area is quite new to me.
Thanks
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RE: Advice on whic graphic card - 6/12/2005 12:49:11
I would just keep the graphics card you have, unless you want a combo card (I'm not familiar with them), and just get a capture card.
I use a cheap ADS Pyro board which has done great for me over the past few years. I used to use a Pinnacle board, but then ran into upgrade problems when I went to XP and Pinnacle would not update the driver, so I went with another company, ADS. I've been VERY happy with my ADS, and would buy from them again.
I use Adobe Premiere to capture, edit, and export the video. This works great for me also. Adobe is on the pricey side, so MGI, Ulead, or some other might be the way to go. But, I've been using Adobe for 6 or so years and just keep with them.
Here's a quick read on the different cards(a year old though): http://www.videoguys.com/roundup.htm#cheap
I'm not sure of your current setup, but this may help in deciding what it is you need. A blurb from one of their pages:
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# If your computer has a FireWire port and you want to capture video from a DV camcorder, all you need is video editing software. You do not require any additional hardware.
# If your computer has a FireWire port and you want to capture video from both DV and older analog (AV) sources then you need an external DV converter. Some of them ship with video editing software, while others are just the hardware alone. All of the DV / Analog converts we carry deliver outstadning video quality.
# If your computer does not have FireWire, but you do have a high speed USB 2 port, then you can use an external USB2 capture device. These units are great for archiving video because they capture your footage directly into MPEG. You need to make sure you have a P4 ro faster computer with USB2 ports for best results. Slower/older machines may run into problems with audio sync.
# If your computer does not have FireWire and you want to capture from DV and/or AV then you will need to install a video capture card internally. These cards are fairly easy to install and they typically come with a full featured and powerful software bundle.
# Some internal capture cards have additional features beyond just simple DV & AV inputs and outputs. These cards provide real-time analog and/or DV output. We call these special capture cards Hardware Accelerators.
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RE: Advice on whic graphic card - 6/19/2005 6:40:52
Thanks Brian.
I have purchased a cheap , but quite decent vide capture card. AVerMedia dvd EZMaker Gold. I have had a play and it does the business. really pleased and excited!
I need some advise please or point me to a good website for this kinda thing.
There are 4 output options: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VCD, DVD-VIDEO. I'd like to edit, add titles, take out unwanted stuff and maybe add some nice transitions then save to dvd. That's it really. These are old family VHS-C Videos.
I actually have a copy of Adobe Premiere Pro v7, but never learned how to use it as I've not really had any need to until now.
Thanks
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RE: Advice on whic graphic card - 6/19/2005 12:27:54
This seems to be the most comprehensive place I've found: http://www.videohelp.com/ It has information for just about anything you can think of for videos.
Adobe also has a pretty good forum for specific questions: http://www.adobeforums.com/ This solved some of my earlier misunderstanding years ago.
Premiere wasn't very intuitive for me when I first began using, but that is because I never did any video work before. Now, it makes sense and I can get around it pretty good.
When exporting with Premiere (Export>Movie>Settings), and going to burn to a DVD I use the following settings. I then use Nero to burn the DVD which does the rest pretty much automatically. But this gets me pretty clean(non-pixelated) video.
Export
Video and audio
Entire Sequence
Filetype
Microsoft DV AVI
Video Settings
Compressor: DV (NTSC)
Frame size: 720h 480v (0.900)
Frame rate: 29.97 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC (0.9)
Color depth: Millions of colors
Quality: 100 (out of 100)
Fields: Lower Field First
Audio Settings
Sample rate: 48000 samples/second
Channels: Stereo
Sample type: 16-bit
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RE: Advice on whic graphic card - 6/19/2005 14:03:18
Thank you. You've been a great help.
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RE: Advice on whic graphic card - 6/20/2005 8:32:05
Hi,
My DVD burner won't read any disks all of a sudden including disks I previously burnt on it! ....why now?
The PC recognises the drive and looks ok on the system device page. The PC has also just been rebuilt (reformatted), but it has had a few rebuilds before with no problems.
I tried to download the latest firmware (dvdrw824k_00_fus_eng) but it could not flash the drive.
Philips DVDRW842824K/20 (DVDRW824P). Set to region 2 as I live in Spain.
Thanks.............Fade
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RE: Advice on whic graphic card - 6/20/2005 23:41:49
Fade,
Hmm, I'm not sure what it would be. Strange that your system recognizes it but it won't read, or write, anything. Does it give any type of error messages at all, either with firmware or DVD? You might want to try replugging in the power and communications cable just to make sure all connections are good. Otherwise, nothing else comes to mind. Perhaps someone else might have some suggestions.
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