Video editing advice needed

[mr krinkle]

OK,So I finally broke down and bought a lite-on dvd burner,,,So what can anyone recommend that i use for software and a video capture card?

Without breaking my budget.

Just going to mainly put my vhs collection onto DVD...thanks in advance~~~

[Force Flow]

Any of the radeon AIW cards should do the job. The AIW 9600pro is about $200.

[Kov-Ice]

What software came with your DVD burner? Many come with a fairly simplistic video editing program like Nero Showtime or maybe ArcSoft ShowBiz. I think Dazzle makes a fairly cheap capture box. Dunno about its software.

I hesitate to recommend Pinnacle Studio, but it's what I've been using. I bought Studio 8 Deluxe, and it came with an analog capture box as well as a pci capture card for around $200. Just make sure you update to the latest version, as it's some buggy software...

[Floppyman]

I'm using a Pinnacle Studio Deluxe card which allows for both analog and digital capture. For software I'm using Adobe Premiere at the moment. The card came with Pinnacle software which is great beginner projects, but you'll want something better as you get more advanced. HTH

[Xayd]

A Leadtek TV 2000 card and TMPGEnc will set you back less than 100 dollars.

When you outgrow TMPGEnc's dvd authoring abilities then spend your money on more featureful DVD software, and you'll still have TMPGEnc to encode with.

You can capture with Virtualdub (free). Considering you probably don't have a professional audio recording setup with your home movies and therefore less than perfect source audio anyways, you can also encode AC3 audio with freeware tools, BeSweet+AC3enc for instance.

[mr krinkle]

Thanks for the advice thus far folks.
BTW I am using W-98 so I have to take that into account when buying the latest software.

[Xayd]

You should take into account the need to upgrade to Win2000 .

The file size limitation with FAT32 will severely limit your capture capabilities. Not to mention the inability to make an ISO of any DVD you wanna burn beforehand. Time to upgrade if you wanna work with video.

[Kov-Ice]

What is the FAT32 limit, right at 2GB? Your average DVD files will be 3-4GB, rendering will take more space than that. If you capture your videos to .avi, the sizes can get huge. So as Xayd said you'll def. need to change over to the NTFS system of Win2K or XP. I think you can get a copy of XP Home at www.newegg.com for @ $90. Good luck!

[Force Flow]

About 5GB.


I've got a few 4.8GB files

[glc]

FAT32 limit is 4gb.

[Force Flow]

Hmm...

[mr krinkle]

OK Thanks again for all of the advice,Never thought about upgrading Windows but I guess its time to bite the bullet.

I have decided that the Leadtek TV 2000 card should be all i need for capturing.