I am planning to buy the Dell XPS 410 with this video card: VIDEO CARD 256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro. I am assuming I will be able to feed my analog VCR output into this card for purposes of using Vista Movie Maker and Vista DVD Maker. Other features I am buying are:
Intel?Core?2 E6420
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 DIMMs
320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache?br />
Single Drive: 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability
I am mainly trying to see if I have forgotten something important. How does this look re my VHS to DVD task? Thanks
There's no analog input for that video card. You'll need an analog video capture card like this : http://www.nlesystems.com/_e/DECKLIN...eckLink_SP.htm
There are cheaper ones than that, but because you're going to buy a dell none of them will work. You can't install aftermarket PCI hardware in dell computers
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As cheap as combo VHS / DVD units are why would you want to tie up a 'puter with all that?
You can get a unit to dub those over for cheap.
HERE is just a few at walmart, and I saw some nice units at Bestbuy a while back as well.
I have about 750 VHS I plan to dub over too, so I was looking into this about a month ago, all in all I came to the conclusion it would be simpler and cheaper just to get a combo unit, and have at it.
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Be sure you realize you must get a RECORDER. A plain combo won't work.
And as the others said, the Radeon only has TV-Out. If you want to capture using your computer, you do need some form of capture card. Though in the end a DVD-Recorder is very nice. I typically record things on DVD-RW's then rip the DVD, clip the ends, then re-burn it to a DVD-R. With the right software you could also add titles or whatever.
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Originally Posted by The_Other_One
Be sure you realize you must get a RECORDER. A plain combo won't work.
And as the others said, the Radeon only has TV-Out. If you want to capture using your computer, you do need some form of capture card. Though in the end a DVD-Recorder is very nice. I typically record things on DVD-RW's then rip the DVD, clip the ends, then re-burn it to a DVD-R. With the right software you could also add titles or whatever.
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As cheap as combo VHS / DVD units are why would you want to tie up a 'puter with all that?
You can get a unit to dub those over for cheap.
HERE is just a few at walmart, and I saw some nice units at Bestbuy a while back as well.
I have about 750 VHS I plan to dub over too, so I was looking into this about a month ago, all in all I came to the conclusion it would be simpler and cheaper just to get a combo unit, and have at it.
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Originally Posted by madtownidiot
There's no analog input for that video card. You'll need an analog video capture card like this : http://www.nlesystems.com/_e/DECKLIN...eckLink_SP.htm
There are cheaper ones than that, but because you're going to buy a dell none of them will work. You can't install aftermarket PCI hardware in dell computers
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Thanks for the good advice! My thought about using a plain DVD recorder: I will be wanting to edit the videotape footage before committing it to a DVD. That will include deleting sections, adding titles, and information to provide context. Not sure I can do that with a plain VHS to DVD recorder and assuming I will need computer software for the task.
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What I tend to do with my recorder, I'll record Mythbusters (got to love that show!) 2 to 4 shows on a DVD-RW. Afterwards, I'll load it on my computer using TMPGEnc DVD Author and cut out the commercials and any extra junk. Then I simply burn it to a DVD-R and format my RW for the next set of shows
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