video capture and editing questions

[habba]

Question 1: I want to transmit old vhs and vhs-c home videos to disc. I've found an ATI all in wonder pro 32 meg card for $120 shipped. Is this the cheapest way and best to proceed? Money is an issue. I really don't need another video card however cards like TV wonder don't come with video editing software. Case in point, I'm using a Voodoo 3 right now so I thought all I need is the Voodoo TV 100 to capture video. But I read that card doesn't capture in 740X480 and doesn't edit video either. Am I in the ballpark?
Question 2: Firewire... Is that only usable with digital camcorders? Mine is an older vhs-c analog. Actually forget that cause I still need to transfer and edit these tapes regardless.

[habba]

nice of you to reply

[muno]

You don't need the tv tuner if you're just planning on capturing from vhs. And, if you have vhs, you don't need it to watch tv anyway.
Get a vivo of something, it's adequate.
-M

[Rhino302]

That guy is selling that Radeon DDR VIVO in the product exchange forum

[LittleKing]

Well, it depends on what quality you are looking for. I personally just bought the ATI AIW Pro 128, but haven't gotten to use it for video capture. I'm wanting to purchase a better system for that.

I believe the ATI AIW will do the job for you, but the editing capabilities are pretty limited.

As for Firewire, as far as I know they only work for digital camcorders, but some DV kits also include analog inputs.

Sorry I can't help any more, but I'm also new into video capture and editing.

LK

[Ziz]

I had an AIWPro 8Meg in my old machine and did video editing just fine. It depends more on the software than the video card. I use MGI VideoWave. The 8meg card came with Version 2, current version available is 4. There's also other programs for video editing like Ulead and one called Video Factory.

[DVNT1]

habba... sure it is...and another software to do that is Adobe Premiere 6.0

[habba]

thanks for the tip

[habba]

Let me be more specific. I want to be able to transfer video tapes to disc, then cut some of the file away and make separate files. Is that considered editing?

[Rhino302]

If you have Windows ME, it comes with somethign to do that already.