On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:20:18 +0100, MikeJohnes
wrote:

Could anyone tell me if capturing analogue video with a capture card or this
USB device is similar to transferring DV from a digital camera through a
firewire port? In other words can I transfer the analogue video directly
onto the hard drive in the DV-AVI format that video editing programs like?
After reading descriptions of capture cards it seems that they transfer
directly on DVD as mpegs giving no room for editing/manipulation.

It's not true that MPEGs can't be edited, VideoReDo and Womble's MPEG
Video Wizard are two I use (the former allows cuts, the latter is a more
sophisticated package which has various effects and filters). The main
difference is that working with MPEGs for anything more than cuts
results in degradation of quality because it has to be decompressed,
modified and recompressed (both the ones I mention will try to only do
that for small sections and keep the rest intact, but filters tend to
affect the whole file).

Does anyone know anything about the 'Dazzle DVC 90' also?

Check whether it does full resolution, some of the 'Dazzle' kit only
does SVCD (320x288) resolution instead of DVD (720x576). I can't
remember whether the DVC 90 said on the box when I looked at it.

Chris C