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General discussion

video capture

Dec 31, 2004 12:28AM PST

I have a Dell 8400 pc. It has a tv out, a dvd+rw, a legacy video capture device, 128MB PCI Express x16 ATI Radeon x300 SE.

My question is: can I connect a vcr to my pc to transfer video to dvd. And how??

my s-video cable connects to my pc but not to my vcr or video camera, is there a cable converter?

I have tried asking just about everywhere.

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I have this
Dec 31, 2004 12:59AM PST
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Oil_Tan
Dec 31, 2004 1:11AM PST

Thanks, I will try Radio Shack...do you know if that will allow me to get the video to my pc?? Thanks again

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answer this...
Dec 31, 2004 9:31AM PST

1. What does the super vid cord plug into exactly on your computer? It is labeled IN? Some card or?
2. Type of software used to capture?
3. Things to help vid capture follow.
No spyware at all.
Updated mother board drivers.
UDMA on.
Other programs that run in background turned off.
Clean and defragged harddrive.
Harddrive with enough capture space.

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software
Dec 31, 2004 10:24PM PST

I have a sound card that has a "line in connector and I have (sofware) sonic dvd, and Windows movie maker. Pent 4, 512mb,128 mb pci, dvi/vga/tv-out radeon x300, dvd+rw,cyberlink software decoding. in my device manager a legacy video capture device is listed. Thank you for your help and any advice you have to offer.

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now we have to...
Jan 1, 2005 8:33PM PST

Not familiar with sonic dvd. You are using Sonic to transfer video to pc? And thats what is not detecting your cam/input port?
Next, we need to identify your legacy video capture device.
Last, would help to know pc brand and model. If custom built list mobo.

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VCR to PC to DVD
Dec 31, 2004 10:08AM PST
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Canopus ADVC100
Dec 31, 2004 1:11PM PST

Does ADVC100 require an additional capture card?
I am running WinXP on PIV 512Ram.
Using Audigy2 for audio but am unhappy with my current old ADS Instant DVD USB 1.1. The resulting MPEG2 file, burnt to DVD with Roxio has trouble with Set top player: no audio. Plays OK on PC.
Svea Dietrich

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No....
Dec 31, 2004 5:46PM PST

No, it needs no capture card, just an IEEE 1394 (firewire) port. Your video software will see it as a digital device.

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firewire?
Dec 31, 2004 10:37PM PST

so if i install a firewire port i will be able to connect my video 8 camcorder directly to my pc? my camcorder is not digital, does that matter? i have been reading so many conflicting reports. i also have many old vhs format that i want to save on dvd, can a vcr also be connected to the firewire port? thanks for your help. any more advice is much appreciated.

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No...
Jan 1, 2005 9:22AM PST

My last reply was for your post before it. You would still need the Canopus or other device to convert from analog to digital, then from there it would go into your firewire port.

Once you have it set up you can just as easily connect your VCR to it and digitize/import/edit video from VHS tapes, and make DVDs if desired.

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video capture
Jan 3, 2005 12:36AM PST

You can use one of the cables from the other post. Most newer capture cards have both composite and s-video. Be sure to read timwerx's link. I have added a couple of links, the video card at tirger works well is low cost, it comes withsome software but WMM2 is probaly better.
Pinnacle makes a fullrange of products lots of options there. If your thinking of buying a digitial cameracorded many of them will covnert analog video to digitial and output it on firewire to your pc, so you might want to consider this option. John


http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=763441&CatId=1425
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/