OK Im looking to transfer my VHS to dvd for easier viewing and then making a master copy on Digital video for archive purposes( got the digi video issue solved thats a non issue. MY question is what am I looking at for a computer I know the first thing someone will say is " you need a real fast machine" and to that I reply " well what did people do when they had a 1.5 GHZ machine and seemed to do fine????"........... Ill be sure to get 1+Gig of ram for the comp.So my question is Who has done this????? I know rendering the video is real time IE 1 hr of video will take 1 hr to record onto the Comp.........what will total time be with my adding simple chapters and perhaps a few captions.?????? I'm thinking I want to go this rout as opposed to a stand alone DVD recorder because of greater control on the specifics. Any help is appreciated
PCI Card for Video Transfer
Ok, the best one that I have found and tried personaly and have great is a pci card AverMedia Ultra TV. It is by far the best and have many options. Hdtv snapshot of live video,record composite, live Tv, svideo, and many other functions. Under $100.00. It can convert your all your videos into dvd formats and thereis a lot of enhancement features. it takes about one hour to convert the video tape to your hardrive however it will take longer to convert it over to dvd disk. Once the conversion to disk is completed it doesn't take anytime to copy others.
Ok, the best one that I have found and tried personaly and have great is a pci card AverMedia Ultra TV. It is by far the best and have many options. Hdtv snapshot of live video,record composite, live Tv, svideo, and many other functions. Under $100.00. It can convert your all your videos into dvd formats and thereis a lot of enhancement features. it takes about one hour to convert the video tape to your hardrive however it will take longer to convert it over to dvd disk. Once the conversion to disk is completed it doesn't take anytime to copy others.
Fast harddrives are a big MUST. Back in the days when the fastest stations only had ~1GHz or less almost ALL "real" video editing stations used SCSI drives. Today I think you might get away with raided SATA drives but I wouldn't go for anything less that WD Raptor.
I have quite happily done 15 minute corporate video edits using my old 450MHz iMac, stock, no external drives or cards. It isn't quick, compared to modern machines, but if you're prepared to let the machine just sit and render for a while then it's no problem.
well you got a couple of options for the hdds .. you could do one WD raptor 36 or 74 gig spins @ 10k or you could raid 2 of them and get even faster but they are kinda expensive for there size i think the 36 is going for like 170 ish but on the other hand since SATA II came out you could prolly get away with 2 raided 200-300 gig 16 mb cache sata II hdds and be perty dang fast and have alot of storage for all that video im useing 2 x WD 80 gig sata I hdds raided and a ide 250 gig maxtor of movie backups with a 16mb cache but i also have amd 64 3000+ oced to 2.0 ghz with 1 gig of corsair xms 3200 and for the video part i got nvidia 6600gt ... witch is a decent card .... yet far from highend top of the line its more a entry lvl gameing card really...at least its pci-E
My experience
I actually have done several hundred hours of analog capture using a 650Mhz AMD computer running Windows 2000 and Pinnacle DV500 PCI card and Adobe Premiere.
No dropouts, no problems. You need:
1. A very reliable video capture card that will not drift over time... i.e. audio will remain in sync with video even after more than an hour.
2. Fast hard drive 7200rpm is okay, IDE. The important thing is to make sure it's not too fragmented.
Unfortunately, the DV500 has been retired and Pinnacle has stopped bundling Adobe Premiere when they released their own video editor software. But this was a reliable setup for me.
I am now using a Power Mac and for analog video capture, I'm using Datavideo DAC-10 Media Capture box.
Here's more information
http://homestudioguide.com/home-studio-permalink.asp?id=111
I actually have done several hundred hours of analog capture using a 650Mhz AMD computer running Windows 2000 and Pinnacle DV500 PCI card and Adobe Premiere.
No dropouts, no problems. You need:
1. A very reliable video capture card that will not drift over time... i.e. audio will remain in sync with video even after more than an hour.
2. Fast hard drive 7200rpm is okay, IDE. The important thing is to make sure it's not too fragmented.
Unfortunately, the DV500 has been retired and Pinnacle has stopped bundling Adobe Premiere when they released their own video editor software. But this was a reliable setup for me.
I am now using a Power Mac and for analog video capture, I'm using Datavideo DAC-10 Media Capture box.
Here's more information
http://homestudioguide.com/home-studio-permalink.asp?id=111
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