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Juke Joint Jezebel

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"Video Capture Card Suggestions?" , posted Wed 21 May 20:30:

i've got about $100 to blow on a video capture card. any suggestions are appreciated. i'll repay you with lots of beautiful captured art

EDIT:
HAHA YES

For the world is filled with evil. Those who are weak may only speak of justice

but the powerful will deliver it.

[this message was edited by Juke Joint Jezebel on Wed 21 May 20:34]

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Radish

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Red Carpet Executive Member

"Re(1):Video Capture Card Suggestions?" , posted Wed 21 May 20:58

My ATI all in wonder card has served me well for 4 years so I would recomend that one wholeheartedly if you can find one. It cost me about $35 at the time and does pretty much everything I want.

Fuchikoma

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"Re(2):Video Capture Card Suggestions?" , posted Wed 21 May 21:31

quote:
My ATI all in wonder card has served me well for 4 years so I would recomend that one wholeheartedly if you can find one. It cost me about $35 at the time and does pretty much everything I want.

The current generation of all in wonder cards are a bit on the pricey side though... it's hard to get any decent video card for $100.

Juke Joint Jezebel

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"Re(3):Video Capture Card Suggestions?" , posted Wed 21 May 22:31

quote:
My ATI all in wonder card has served me well for 4 years so I would recomend that one wholeheartedly if you can find one. It cost me about $35 at the time and does pretty much everything I want.

The current generation of all in wonder cards are a bit on the pricey side though... it's hard to get any decent video card for $100.

ack, that's what i thought. i was still hoping that i could get away with one anyways ... maybe. well, let's say i had an unlimited amount of cash to spend on a video capture card. any suggestions on that? wait, lemme rephrase that. what's the best, cheapest (or moderately-priced) card i could get my hands on?

Radish: if you don't mind, i've got a few questions about your ATI. how good's the quality on the images? can it capture to movies? any sound? i'm extremely new to this so i apologize for any stupid questions

if i can't find a good card for the price i'm willing to pay, i'll just wait and get one later. i'll use this money to get a tablet or a scanner or something

For the world is filled with evil. Those who are weak may only speak of justice

but the powerful will deliver it.

Sklathill
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Regular Customer

"Re(4):Video Capture Card Suggestions?" , posted Thu 22 May 02:51

There are ATI All In Wonders at the 100 dollar price point. The 7500 and VE AIWs will fit the bill nicely. If you have a little bit more money, the 9000 is very good, while providing decent 3d as well. If you already have a 3d card you want to keep, getting a AIW VE for a PCI slot is a good idea. If you need cheaper, the ATI TV Wonder (no vid card, just capture) is easily found for under 50. I've got an 8500DV that I enjoy immensely. All the ATI cards sport very good capture quality.

The ONLY caveat I can think of with ATI's current drivers, is that they don't support RGB capture...just YUY2 and UYVY. Which is fine for me because I capture almost exclusively with HuffYUV, which yields lossless compressed video that doesn't tax my CPU. The only reason I can think of for guys to want RGB on capture would be applying effects on capture rather than another pass of processing. These days, if I'm not capturing HuffYUV, I can capture to 640 x 480 XVID quantizer-2 (extremely high quality at 23:1 compression ratio) without a problem on my 1800+...

Almost all the vids you see on insertcredit.com were captured from a handheld 8mm into an All In Wonder 8500DV, capturing S-video at 320 x 240 huffyuv, then recompressing in nandub twopass, 1200 kbits, compression from 2 to 8:1 ratio, and some filters because the camera consistenly underexposed scenes. If you're not doing web publishing, you can get some VERY good videos out of this thing. I recently tried some Ikaruga and 3rd Strike capturing, 640 x 480 29.97 FPS, processing through TMPEG deinterlacer (even-odd field adaptation), resultant 59.94 FPS 640 x 480, encode at quantizer 1 in Divx 5.03...if it looked any better, you'd swear the actual game was playing, not a video.

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Juke Joint Jezebel

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"Re(5):Video Capture Card Suggestions?" , posted Thu 22 May 04:57

MANY thanks for the detailed report! it restored a lot of faith in me. i'll do a bit of research and will most likely pick up something in a few hours

i'm mainly looking for a video capture card so i can take good quality captures of art (Mark of the Wolves, Final Fantasy VI, Grandia II, and Project Justice come to mind), and make videos of us (Hagen and i) fighting. maybe later i can bring the card to San Antonio and i'll make videos of Juan getting the crap beat out of him HEHEHE

any more suggestions are welcome. the more input i get, the merrier

... But

it is the pain that reminds you what is truly precious.
... In sadness

we find our humanity.

Radish

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"Re(6):Video Capture Card Suggestions?" , posted Thu 22 May 05:49

quote:
MANY thanks for the detailed report! it restored a lot of faith in me. i'll do a bit of research and will most likely pick up something in a few hours

i'm mainly looking for a video capture card so i can take good quality captures of art (Mark of the Wolves, Final Fantasy VI, Grandia II, and Project Justice come to mind), and make videos of us (Hagen and i) fighting. maybe later i can bring the card to San Antonio and i'll make videos of Juan getting the crap beat out of him HEHEHE

any more suggestions are welcome. the more input i get, the merrier

Yeah, I can post some captures later this afternoon when I get back home so you can see what mine generally look like. It's good (not super crazy great) quality, but its 4 year old technology so expect the newer stuff to be better.

Juke Joint Jezebel

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"Re(7):Video Capture Card Suggestions?" , posted Fri 23 May 15:23:

bah, i caved. the temptation of manga and games in the summer is just too much. i don't know what i'm rushing into anyways. i still have lots of research to do. i'll save up and buy a decent one in a few months

i do appreciate Sklathill's report. i'll save it in a *.txt file for the future. and whenever you've got free time, i'd like to get a glimpse of any captures, Radish

thanks, everyone, for your time

1st EDIT:
by the way, Kare Kano 3 and Love Hina 10 & 11 mangas are out stateside!

2nd EDIT:
my apologies. i'm losing my mind

Life is comfort

joy

love -- all these things.
But life is also pain.
Without it

we do not hope

we do not dream. Nor live.

[this message was edited by Juke Joint Jezebel on Fri 23 May 18:31]

Omar
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"Re(8):Video Capture Card Suggestions?" , posted Fri 23 May 15:51

Just one suggestion. Don't go for a Pixelview PlayTV Pro card unless you are on really really tight budget.

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