Video capture card

[Austin Acton]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 09:44, Lance F. Squire wrote:
> ed wrote:
> > I wouild like to burn all my video tapes
> > on to CD's or DVD's. Is it as easy as
> > just getting a video capture card?

The foolproof way is to get an analogue to digital converter, ie
composite input, firewire output.  Many digital camcorders will do this
(usually called "passthrough") but you can also buy external units as
well.  Then use dvgrab to capture the video.  Then use kino, kdenlive,
lives, or cinelerra to edit, and render to avi or mpeg or whatever you
want.

The quality is MUCH better than a capture card, and there are no
headaches setting it up.  (Of course this assumes you have a firewire
input...)

Austin

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