Posted by Bill on 08/13/07 15:02

My experience with the ATI video capture and tuner cards has not been
positive. Shortly after installation, it stopped working, so I tried to
reinstall the drivers. That failed, so I tried to uninstall all of the
drivers and start from scratch. It refused to uninstall. Then when I
tried to reinstall, it failed because it detected the previous
installation. I tried to manually remove every trace of the card,
including registry entries-- that also failed. The only alternative,
it appears, will be to delete the OS and start the entire machine from
scratch. The ATI website was not helpful.

Your mileage may vary... but if I was starting again, I think I would
go to an external box like the Canopus AVDC 110, (about $300) which gets
a lot of favorable comment. Some camcorders with A/D pass through also
do a nice job.

Sailor wrote:
> I recently bought a new system which is a dual core 3 gHz proc., asus mobo
> with onboard graphics, audio, etc. 1g ram. I'm running XP pro sp2.
>
> I was using a PIII 700, mHz, 256 ram, 16 m video card with windows 98. For
> capture I was using a DC30+ (capturing 2g chunks with avi_io and editing
> with premiere 6.5). It was a nice setup for analog capture (which is still
> what I'll be doing) but rendering to mpg for DVD has been painfully slow.
> It was nice in the days when I could just play the production from the
> timeline and record onto 5 vcr's simultaneously :-)
>
> Anyway, in looking at options for video capture for my new system, prices
> range from as low as $19.95, on up to the thousands.
>
> I plan on adding a video card (PCI-e) and I was wondering if I should get
> an ATI AIW card that has everything that I want, or a USB device, or a
> geforce card and a separate capture device, an nVidia card plus a capture
> device, etc., etc. I would also like to have a TV tuner (but that's not
> extremely important).
>
> I want to be able to capture good quality s-video and composite and create
> DVD's. I have Premiere 6.5 and Pro for editing, and ulead Movie Factory and
> DVD Workshop for authoring so bundled software is not an issue.
>
> The ability to capture digital via firewire would be nice too should I
> decide to get a digital video camera.
>
> I don't do any gaming so there is no need gear up toward that at all.
>
> Any advice would be helpful
>
> thanks,
> sailor
>

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