![]() ![]() I paid around $240 for it about 3-4 months ago. I personally have a ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500 DV. Depending on what one you decide to get, the price could vary anywhere from $100 to $400. This is a “good” thing if your also a gamer. One of the advantages of buying a capture card for your computer is that they tend to be pretty beefy video cards. There are several advantages(and a few disadvantages) to getting a video capture card for your computer. However I don’t have any experience with any of those, so I’ll stick to video capture cards. There are products out there that are basically boxes that you plug one side of into your VCR and the other side into your firewire port and it does all the “magic” invisibly. To convert your analog video(VHS) to a digital format you will need a way to digitize it. Sound Card, RAM, Removable Drives, Motherboard. Hardware needs: Video Capture Card, Hard Drive, Processor, If you don’t want to or can’t do this, the guidelines can just as easily be applied to Dell’s(or any other OEM) “build to own” online store. The guidelines provided by this article are intended for people who can buy the components and assemble them. This article will give reader’s an idea about what kind of computer they will need to achieve satisfactory results. That means an hours worth of video will consume almost 13 GB of hard drive space! It will take something a lot better than your 4 year old PC with it’s 300 mhz processor and 8 GB hard drive to provide you with decent results/performance! Hence the need for a powerful computer. Now think about your high quality video, it can consist of 30 of those still images(also known as frames) in one second of video! The DV(digital video) format used by many of today’s digital camcorder’s uses around 3.6 MB per second of video. ![]() We all know that it’s nothing at all for a single high quality photo to be at least 1 MB in size. Think of digital video as a strip of still images. The software article, which should be finished soon, will help readers decide what to do with the video once it’s on their machine, and how to do it.Īs you might imagine working with digital video can stress nearly every component of your computer. ![]() This is the hardware section, which will help someone who is just getting into the digital video scene decide on a machine to do their editing on. This article is divided into two main sections, hardware and software. With digital camcorder’s and PC’s becoming better and cheaper every day, there are more and more people who fit into this category. This article is for anyone who is interested in working with digital video, but isn’t sure how to get started. I knew enough about video capturing/editing to have a basic idea of the hardware requirements, but regarding software (editing/converting), I didn’t really know where to start. Recently I decided that it would be a good idea for me to convert several old home videos from VCR tape to a digital format. ![]()
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