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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