Capturing Analogue To Digital Video
By Scott Brown, Wed Dec 7th

You may have and old analogue or perhaps and old videodeck and you fancy putting your old home movies onto DVD format.

Well there are a number of ways to do this depending on yourbudget:

TV and Graphics Cards The cheapest way to convert analoguefootage to digital may be to get yourself a Tv Capture/GraphicsCard, these allow you to connect your VCR or Analogue Camcordervia an S-Video connection and the audio via your PCs soundcard/TV card. A fast PC is required a reasonably fast processor(Pentium 4 ideally) for higher resolution video (anything above320*240), for example an ATI All-in-one 9600 on a P4 can captureup to 720x480 up to 30 frames per second.

Analogue

to Digital Converter For the best results a dedicatedanalogue to digital converter is the recommend option, dependingon budget most of the leading brands such as Canopus, Matrox,Avid, Pinnacle have such products which because they arededicated take much off the burden away from the computers CPU

To summarise, analogue to digital conversion is ideal for thoseon a budget where quality is not of paramount importance. Takingyou VHS recordings and transferring them to DVD format willoffer an extension to the short life of old VHS material to.

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