TV Card Help

[Jaz]

I'm currently looking for a TV card so I can transfer and edit some movies recorded with an analague camcorder onto my PC, and then transfer the finished movie back onto a video cassette or VCD (probably back onto cassette, though).

I'm thinking cheap cheap cheap here, so anyone got any suggestions for what one I go for?

Thanky. I'm using XP, by the way, for what it's worth.

 

[Remote]

I don't have any 1st-hand experince with TV cards but from what I've heard Pinnacle is the way to go. They are cheap and there is a broad sortiment. So tune it to your local store and see what they have got.

check http://www.pinnaclesys.com/ and http://www.hauppage.com/ for feat...

 

[Reznor007]

Get a Hauppage WinTV PCI card(NOT the USB model). It's less than $100 US. You can use the Hauppage drivers and software to do recording, but for actual viewing go to www.dscaler.com and use the DScaler software.

It is a software de-interlacer that has excellent quality. It is what I use all the time on my TV card. Note that for recording to cassette from your PC you will need a video card with TV out. None of the TV cards I know of have video output.

Here is a screencap of DScaler from my computer using a real DVD player connected via Svideo.

 

[Jaz]

Note that for recording to cassette from your PC you will need a video card with TV out. None of the TV cards I know of have video output.

Yeah, I know. Alot of the ones I've been looking at do have a TV Out, which seems to bump up the price. :blink:

But I do need that feature.

I've thought about getting a Pinnacle card, as they seem the best way to go for first-time users, although blizz has already cussed them. Anyone else have any experience with them?

 

[Reznor007]

Yeah, I know. Alot of the ones I've been looking at do have a TV Out, which seems to bump up the price. :blink:

But I do need that feature.

I've thought about getting a Pinnacle card, as they seem the best way to go for first-time users, although blizz has already cussed them. Anyone else have any experience with them?

Which card has TV out? I looked at the Pinncale site, but none that I saw had output.

EDIT: OK, I found it. It wasn't under TV card, but Home Video. That is about the price range everything is under in that category.

However, if your main video card has TV output, you can use a basic TV card to do most of the work, then use DScaler to watch your final product full screen, then send it out the video cards video output to your VCR and record it.