Wang8, I am always a critical user with foresight of know what product needs to be developed, as for my last post, I do mean tomorrow!!! u r just too old to imagine! :p
Don't speak to me with this tone, ok!Your ati card is an all-in-on card(TV, video capture,...etc). But I really think the pinnacle card is the best in the market for video editing. Sure, pinnacle also has cards for professionals, which cost obviously more and give you better quality. % q( R- q* u* _# M$ _
With my pinnacle card, the video capture is very fast(with a desktop). I don't know what is the video capture speed under your ati card.
you want to compare your pinnacle card with me, ok. lets bring it on. i used that card for a year, now i am using ati all-in-wonder 8500-dv. check it out, and you will know funcionally speaking, it rocks pinnacle card upside down and inside out!
what i am talking about is what links your pci slot and your cpu. north bridge or south bridge, this is the system bus on your mainboard. i am not talking about what's between your av souce and your av card. today, its linked by firewire. tomorrow, maybe firewire, maybe usb 2.01 o" R4 M' H& \$ L! R. c
if you can't read english, read it twice before reaching your verdit, ok??
To Wang8: 7 Z' l9 o. l8 U8 A0 M! GDon't be so sure of yourselfe. Have your got really a video editing card? What is it?Between your PCI video edting card and your camcorder, the data is not transfered by a firewire cable?Anyway, my pinnacle card is like this.
pay someone to do it for you. it might cost you over $50 per vhs tape convertion.. B* w- L1 {$ d: F I. L% w
or, you go future shop buy a usb av card, convert and return it in a month. 6 a8 s* p0 p# Z1 e9 h& z3 ]+ t7 `7 ?pci slot using firewire? give me a break, you don't know anything about video editing and computer hardware.
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Solve "converting Hi8 PAL tape into VCD" with laptop(2 PCMIA ports and USB ports, no IEEE1394 connection...) and external CDRW without IEEE1394 connection, PAL camcorder with A/V output. :confused:
Do I really want a vcr??? This question has been bothering me these days. What I want is to watch some PAL tapes and copy from my PAL camcorder to VHS tapes, that's all. Well, if it's workable to convert Hi 8 tape into VCD(I've got an external CDRW too), I'd rather give up my dance VHS tapes or make them VCD later on.