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RurouniZel · Apr 3, 2009

I'm thinking about purchasing a Video Capture card for my PC, so I can improve videos I'm making as tutorials on YouTube.

This, for example, is a video I just recently made using a camera Playing Dragon Quest on a Famicom

But a tutorial video like this would look MUCH better if I were directly capturing the images to my computer rather than just recording from a camera. The problem is I know nothing about video capture cards, so I had a couple of questions regarding them.

1) Does the video capture card replace your video card? (i.e. I have a 128MB ATI video card in my PCI-E slot)
2) What video capture card would be the best for all types of video captures (everything from Famicom to PS3, or as much as possible preferably with the lower end machines as a priority).

I have PCI slots (and a PCI-E if the answer to 1) is "Yes"), can anyone give me some recommendations?

Thank you.

StormyTheRabbit · Apr 3, 2009

1) Does the video capture card replace your video card? (i.e. I have a 128MB ATI video card in my PCI-E slot)

No, it will if you only have 1 PCI(E) slot, but if you have atleast 2, which most computers in the last few years do, you'll be fine.

2) What video capture card would be the best for all types of video captures (everything from Famicom to PS3, or as much as possible preferably with the lower end machines as a priority).

I had an ATI TV Wonder Pro. Wasn't technically HD, but would be more than enough for simple tutorials on Youtube.

RurouniZel · Apr 3, 2009

StormyTheRabbit said:
1) Does the video capture card replace your video card? (i.e. I have a 128MB ATI video card in my PCI-E slot)

No, it will if you only have 1 PCI(E) slot, but if you have atleast 2, which most computers in the last few years do, you'll be fine.

Sadly mine's a little older than that, only have 1 PCI-E slot.

So it would take the place of the Graphics card then? It wouldn't be too much of a loss mind, I hardly play games on my PC anyway.

alr1ght · Apr 3, 2009

HD ones are expensive as hell. A cheap SD one will do for youtube; I have an HD wonder (it only caps SD though). I use WinDVR for the software end of it.

LCGeek · Apr 3, 2009

There's no good solution for video capturing if you plan on doing HD and SD as a range. If you want HD capturing it will cost money and a lot as that isn't cheap especially if you want full frame capturing with tons of format support on the hardware. My suggestion just stick with a card that SD well and has good hardware so you don't rely on your cpu for capturing.

RurouniZel · Apr 3, 2009

Thanks for all of the advice!

A couple more related questions I just thought of.

1) Do I need a separate card to capture sound?
2) If say, the Famicom only has an RF adaptor (i.e. the video and sound both go through it), does that effectively make sound capturing impossible?

LCGeek · Apr 3, 2009

RurouniZel said:
Thanks for all of the advice!

A couple more related questions I just thought of.

1) Do I need a separate card to capture sound?
2) If say, the Famicom only has an RF adaptor (i.e. the video and sound both go through it), does that effectively make sound capturing impossible?

No usually you get a cable you plug to the capture card source of sound in to your line port. Anything coaxial usually has sound support automatically just make sure the card doesn't suck in regards to delay with it or you have to adjust the sound when you edit the video for final form.

Manager · Apr 3, 2009

btw, there are capture cards with both sound and no sound.

RurouniZel said:
Sadly mine's a little older than that, only have 1 PCI-E slot. So it would take the place of the Graphics card then? It wouldn't be too much of a loss mind, I hardly play games on my PC anyway.

What do you mean?

Most popular capture cards comes without graphics solution. Meaning, you have your old graphics card on the PCI-E slot and your capture card on a PCI slot. I myself have my HD card on PCI.

RurouniZel · Apr 3, 2009

LCGeek said:
No usually you get a cable you plug to the capture card source of sound in to your line port. Anything coaxial usually has sound support automatically just make sure the card doesn't suck in regards to delay with it or you have to adjust the sound when you edit the video for final form.

Thanks for the clarification.

Manager said:
What do you mean?

Most popular capture cards comes without graphics solution. Meaning, you have your old graphics card on the PCI-E slot and your capture card on a PCI slot. I myself have my HD card on PCI.

Ah, the post above said it would take a PCI-E slot (the first reply). So it's just a PCI slot then? I think I've got a free one of those.

Manager · Apr 3, 2009

RurouniZel said:
Thanks for the clarification.

Ah, the post above said it would take a PCI-E slot (the first reply). So it's just a PCI slot then? I think I've got a free one of those.

Yeah just checked, it's PCI. All the SD one's I've had is PCI too.

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