Video capture card

Lance F. Squire lance-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Tue May 4 14:19:39 UTC 2004


Austin Acton wrote:

> The foolproof way is to get an analogue to digital converter, ie
> composite input, firewire output.  

I've been looking for one of these for a month now... any hints?

>Many digital camcorders will do this
> (usually called "passthrough") but you can also buy external units as
> well. 

Well, Was thinking of getting one of these anyway. Could kill two birds 
with one stone!

> 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...)
> 

I'm sure it has to be better that my BUZ card...

Lance

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