Why Use a Digital Camcorder for Analog Video Capture?
Many people have 8mm/Hi8 tapes (and even VHS tapes) filled with movies that we recorded with our analog camcorders. There is concern is that the tapes will degrade with time so there is a desire to “digitize” the material, perhaps producing VCD or DVDs which can be played on standalone DVD players. One approach to capture the video on the computer is to use various capture cards (Dazzle, ATI, Hauppauge, etc.), as described elsewhere on this site. You may run into some of these limitations of the capture card approach (as I did): – you might have a laptop (which won’t take a standard PCI card) or you may have no extra slots for an additional PCI card on your desktop PC – you may not have a computer that is fast enough to capture analog video from capture cards. Many people feel that the cards will produce the best quality when capturing raw AVI output but this output is VERY big. Raw AVI is up to five times bigger than the DV AVI that digital camcorder produce and it can take a high-spe
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