Video Capturing Cards

MindPhuck

Hey lads,

I know Hobbes and Vex have digi cams, do you guys have any info on Video Capturing Cards.

Ie. :
Whats a good one ?
What Kinda Price ?
Does it Do full Color Video with Audio ?
Where Can I get it ?

Thanx

Eric

Slosh

Eric,

A good capture card is the Creative Labs RT300. Should be about 250-300, full colour video and audio and u can get it in most places where u get the upper end creative stuff - SBLive etc - I'd hazard Game or any PC builder near u!


Slosh.

Shinji

I love the Iomega Buz, personally. It gives very high quality captures, up there with the professional cards, takes all sorts of signals (PAL, NTSC, SECAM, PAL-60) and conveniently, all the inputs are located on an external box which you connect to the card, rather than awkwardly stuck at the back of the machine.

What really swayed me though was that the internal card also has a SCSI interface on it, so you're getting a free SCSI card into the bargain! The price.... about £199 RRP I think, although a friend of mine picked one up for 150 quid or therabouts in England.

Ja na,
Shin-[playing happily with Adobe Premiere]-chan

gandalf

Yep the Iomega Buz seems to be popular, have sold a few to my customers here. If ya want one I could probally do ya a deal on one if ya want.

Gandalf.

Hobbes

I have (or had, gave it to the sister) also a WinCast TV Card, and I used to hook up a normal cam corder to it. The software that came with it converted the picture to AVI or Jpeg (A friend of mine did up an AVI to MPeg conversion proggy which was cool <IMG SRC="http://lacerta.ucg.ie/boards/smile.gif&quot; WIDTH=15 HEIGHT=15 BORDER=0 ALT=":)">).

Anyway, for what the card did I would recommend it over a digi camera. Oh yea it cost me $100 a year ago, should be a lot cheaper now. If your not planning on splashing out could try that. you've all seen the quality of that card anyway.

MindPhuck

Thanx for the info lads, Im still tryin 2 source a cheap and cheerfull one tho!

Any1 got any second hand ones ?