Capture Cards? or a Simple Firewire Port is enough

Hi all! This is my first post!

Well, I bought a brand new DV camera, JVC GR-DVL309, and
I want to edit a upload videos to DV again. The question is:

Miro DV: medium price, is a simple firewire port with lot of expensive soft? What is the function of the chipset Sony DV, in the specifications says it is a hardware accelerator, this means that does not compress / uncompress the DV. Is really necessary this card only for this chipset?


Conceptronic: a simple Firewire port, will I get any difference with miro DV? The software is not a problem, you know. And of course this PCI card is cheaper than miro´s.

My PC is a Pentium III 500 192 RAM (100 MHZ).

Thnx for reply

As mentioned above, you are running on the minium requirements for digital video; and if you are running Windows ME or 98, you will have even more problems with system crashes. If you could give us your system specs, we would appriecate it so we could offer you more advice.

If it works for you then don't fix it.

P III 500 is on the limit of being able to capture/Export
8G drive is too small for any thing meaningfull and 5400 is little slow, espacially if the system swap file is on it as well.

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In reality, mate, the answer to your question seems to be more financial than technical.

A dedicated card is almost always better than any other option but it is more expensive. This is true about all devices.

For example, technically, you are better of buying a separate video card + a separate TV tuner + a separate Video capture device (and, of course, you want to get the best of each ). But if you do, you are looking at $1000.00 worth of components here.

At the same time, there are other viable solutions, like a combo card, such as ATI All-in Wonder or an ASUS V8200T5 Ti-500 Deluxe which cost less than half of the cost of individual components.

So, draw your own conclusions. I would go for the card, and as Scuba suggested above, Studio DC-10+ is very good and comes with all the software. You DO need a BIG hard drive though. Your computer is fine and fast enough for direct streaming, but if you want to EDIT video using multiple fiters on it, you are looking at many frustrating hours of waiting for the processes to complete.

Ok ok, it is Pinnacle.

But it is a simple firewire port, the thing that makes this card expensive is the software.

Well, I have bought a Conceptronic Firewire OHCI Compliant Card. This cards works great, with Studio 7 I capture frames with no losses and with Ulead Studio too. With Premiere it is impossible, it losses a lot of frames, this is because of my pc.

I am sure that with a Pinnacle Studio DV the situation would be the same.