Good Analog Capture Device?

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I am looking for a good capture device. I got one with my Dell 8300 but I
seem to be getting a lot of bad frames - 1 or 2 per second is not
unreasonable. I got a firewire card with it. The card has 2 firewire ports
and what looks like a game controller port. The device plugs into what I am
calling the game controller port - the connector looks like it has 3 rows of
5 holes. For example, the top half of someone's head is messed up and
moved about half a head to the side. the next bunch of frames are okay.
Others have lines all oner the frame. Most of the problems are one or two
bad frames in a row

I assume (perhaps this is bad) that it is the capture device. Consequently
I am looking for a better one. The reviews for the Dazzle 150 don't look
too good - then again, perhaps they might be sour grapes. I cant find
reviews for the Canopus 110 or 300.

I was hoping someone here might hav eperience using a good capture device
I have a P4 3G, 250 storage, 512 RAM
Yhanks

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Mike, respectfully, I don't tolerate a SINGLE dropped frame over a 1 hour
capture. Unless the source materials is particularly poor, I suggest you
demand the same performance of your equipment.

FYI: my first NLE workstation a couple years back was the same system you
have, the Dimension 8300, and it did a fine job of Firewire DV transfers.

I ordered mine with a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card which had a single
Firewire, 6-pin port and that was connected to a Sony TRV-720 Digital 8mm
camera. I don't know what software you've tried but Windows Movie Maker 2
(free with XP) worked as well for capture as Adobe Premiere Pro with DV-AVI
files.

If your problems persist, give us some more details on your Firewire card,
system configuration and what camera you're using.

In the meantime, visit my "Jerkware" page get make sure you are: Firewalled,
Spyware and Virus Protected.
Then disable every background process you can before capturing/transferring
video and don't attempt to "multi-task" while capturing.

http://www.ncf.ca/~af895/links/jerkware.html

Good luck and let us know how you make out.

C.


"Mike L." <no.spam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:GBY%d.66438$7z6.42266@lakeread04...
>I am looking for a good capture device. I got one with my Dell 8300 but I
>seem to be getting a lot of bad frames - 1 or 2 per second is not
>unreasonable. I got a firewire card with it. The card has 2 firewire
>ports and what looks like a game controller port. The device plugs into
>what I am calling the game controller port - the connector looks like it
>has 3 rows of 5 holes. For example, the top half of someone's head is
>messed up and moved about half a head to the side. the next bunch of
>frames are okay. Others have lines all oner the frame. Most of the
>problems are one or two bad frames in a row
>
> I assume (perhaps this is bad) that it is the capture device.
> Consequently I am looking for a better one. The reviews for the Dazzle
> 150 don't look too good - then again, perhaps they might be sour grapes.
> I cant find reviews for the Canopus 110 or 300.
>
> I was hoping someone here might hav eperience using a good capture device
> I have a P4 3G, 250 storage, 512 RAM
> Yhanks
>
>
>

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I checked the card in device manager.and the capture device said Dell Movie
Studio Video Device. The Firewire ports on the same card are listed as
Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller. The capture
device came with the Dell 8300. I am using Studio 9.4 Plus. My sound cars
is Creative Augegy Audeo Processor. I am trying to capture old Home made
VHS tapes. ( I tried a little from a commercial tape with the same results)




"C.J.Patten" <cjpatten@KNOWSPAMrogers.com> wrote in message
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> Mike, respectfully, I don't tolerate a SINGLE dropped frame over a 1 hour
> capture. Unless the source materials is particularly poor, I suggest you
> demand the same performance of your equipment.
>
> FYI: my first NLE workstation a couple years back was the same system you
> have, the Dimension 8300, and it did a fine job of Firewire DV transfers.
>
> I ordered mine with a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 card which had a single
> Firewire, 6-pin port and that was connected to a Sony TRV-720 Digital 8mm
> camera. I don't know what software you've tried but Windows Movie Maker 2
> (free with XP) worked as well for capture as Adobe Premiere Pro with
> DV-AVI files.
>
> If your problems persist, give us some more details on your Firewire card,
> system configuration and what camera you're using.
>
> In the meantime, visit my "Jerkware" page get make sure you are:
> Firewalled, Spyware and Virus Protected.
> Then disable every background process you can before
> capturing/transferring video and don't attempt to "multi-task" while
> capturing.
>
> http://www.ncf.ca/~af895/links/jerkware.html
>
> Good luck and let us know how you make out.
>
> C.
>
>
> "Mike L." <no.spam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:GBY%d.66438$7z6.42266@lakeread04...
>>I am looking for a good capture device. I got one with my Dell 8300 but I
>>seem to be getting a lot of bad frames - 1 or 2 per second is not
>>unreasonable. I got a firewire card with it. The card has 2 firewire
>>ports and what looks like a game controller port. The device plugs into
>>what I am calling the game controller port - the connector looks like it
>>has 3 rows of 5 holes. For example, the top half of someone's head is
>>messed up and moved about half a head to the side. the next bunch of
>>frames are okay. Others have lines all oner the frame. Most of the
>>problems are one or two bad frames in a row
>>
>> I assume (perhaps this is bad) that it is the capture device.
>> Consequently I am looking for a better one. The reviews for the Dazzle
>> 150 don't look too good - then again, perhaps they might be sour grapes.
>> I cant find reviews for the Canopus 110 or 300.
>>
>> I was hoping someone here might hav eperience using a good capture device
>> I have a P4 3G, 250 storage, 512 RAM
>> Yhanks
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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No camera

"C.J.Patten" <cjpatten@KNOWSPAMrogers.com> wrote in message
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> OK. You've got a Firewire card.
>
> You have VHS tapes and want to get them into your computer.
> Got a Digital-8 or miniDV video camera with a Firewire port and analog
> pass-through?
>
> DITCH the Studio software. Use Windows Movie Maker 2. We know the latter
> will work, all things being equal. The former is an unknown quantity.
>
> Let us know what you've got for a camera.
>
> C.
>
>
>
> "Mike L." <no.spam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:N%00e.66452$7z6.21657@lakeread04...
>
>>I checked the card in device manager.and the capture device said Dell
>>Movie Studio Video Device. The Firewire ports on the same card are listed
>>as Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller. The
>>capture device came with the Dell 8300. I am using Studio 9.4 Plus. My
>>sound cars is Creative Augegy Audeo Processor. I am trying to capture old
>>Home made VHS tapes. ( I tried a little from a commercial tape with the
>>same results)
>
>