Hello. I'd like to transfer old VHS and analogue camcorder tapes into a
digital format.
I have absolutely no experience with doing this and I'm not sure what type
of video capture card to buy or whether to try the 'Dazzle DVC 90' USB plug
device described here
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=62010

What I'd like to be able to do is to edit the transferred video file in a
video editing program that I already own.

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.
Also could someone recommend a good video capture card that's not too
expensive approx £50-£100?
Does anyone know anything about the 'Dazzle DVC 90' also?
Thanks

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

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

Hello. I'd like to transfer old VHS and analogue camcorder tapes into a
digital format.
I have absolutely no experience with doing this and I'm not sure what type
of video capture card to buy or whether to try the 'Dazzle DVC 90' USB plug
device described here
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=62010

What I'd like to be able to do is to edit the transferred video file in a
video editing program that I already own.

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.
Also could someone recommend a good video capture card that's not too
expensive approx £50-£100?
Does anyone know anything about the 'Dazzle DVC 90' also?
Thanks

I bought one of these last week to get all my analogue footage onto my
pc and it works fine so far.Didnt manage to get the pinnacle software
working that came with it but using windows movie maker have so far
managed to get the majority of my stuff onto my pc. Not too sure about
the quality yes as havent really done much editing/playing around with
it yet.

Good Luck

Bri

If you are looking to save your old video footage to DVD, I would go
with a service. That's what I did. My friend recommended a service to
me, apmstudio.com. And he gave me a promo code too. Basically, its ten
bucks per DVD. That's about the cheapest service I found so I went with
it. I only had like 13 tapes to transfer, so for me it was cheaper, and
easier, than buying a dvd recorder.

http://www.apmstudio.com/default.asp?refid=APM119764

use the promo code apm119764 and you save 5%... Not much, but hey, it's
still cheaper...

Good luck....

In message .com,
essedbl writes
If you are looking to save your old video footage to DVD, I would go
with a service. That's what I did. My friend recommended a service to
me, apmstudio.com. And he gave me a promo code too. Basically, its ten
bucks per DVD. That's about the cheapest service I found so I went with
it. I only had like 13 tapes to transfer, so for me it was cheaper, and
easier, than buying a dvd recorder.

http://www.apmstudio.com/default.asp?refid=APM119764

use the promo code apm119764 and you save 5%... Not much, but hey, it's
still cheaper...

Perhaps you didn't notice that this is a "uk" newsgroup, and that Mike
apparently comes from the UK. So we're talking about at least 20 "bucks"
when we include sending the VHS and the return postage. And it would be
much more if his VHS tapes are 180 or 240.

You also seem to have missed that Mike would like to edit the video
before burning his DVDs.
--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info

On 25 Apr 2005 14:28:56 -0700, essedbl
wrote:

If you are looking to save your old video footage to DVD, I would go
with a service. That's what I did. My friend recommended a service to
me, apmstudio.com. And he gave me a promo code too. Basically, its ten
bucks per DVD. That's about the cheapest service I found so I went with
it. I only had like 13 tapes to transfer, so for me it was cheaper, and

Great, only $50 (around 30 pounds) for a typical tape ($100 for an LP
tape with 6-8 hours). Oh, plus shipping (I suspect that FedEx Ground
doesn't do transatlantic shipping, Express and Overnight are more
expensive) to Florida. It's rather cheaper to do it yourself...

Did you somehow not notice that the name of this newsgroup starts with
UK?

Chris C