Newbee needs help!

[next61]

I put together an Intel D845GERG2 mobo, 2 WD 120 Gb 7200, 1 Gb RAM with a 2.53Ghz P4, Sony DRU 500AX. What video capture card should I add to be able to record shows from satelite signal (DirectTv). AIW cards...I tend to say no. What else; you guys are talking analog cards here... can you help me?

[Dr Mordrid]

If you want simple and already have editing software how about a Canopus ADVC-100?

It's an external box that connects to the computer by an IEEE-1394 cable, but does analog I/O (either composite or S-Video).

http://www.videoguys.com/canopus.htm

Between it and a cheap IEEE-1394 card in the computer you can capture/export any which-way but loose. ~$299.

IF you want to go a bit more expensive, but with much more power, you can go with the Matrox RT.X10 or RT.X100 editing cards.

They have both analog (composite and S-Video) and IEEE-1394 I/0 from within their own software, and with a patch available from Matrox's site can capture analog using capture tools like AVI_IO or VirtualDUB, two very popular analog capture tools.

RT.X10 runs about $500 while the RT.X100 is about $999, but they both come with full versions of Adobe Premiere 6.5. RT.X100 is by far the most powerful of the two.

http://www.videoguys.com/matrox.htm

Dr. Mordrid