Capture board
Neal, if you are shooting on BetaSP and want to retain a majority of your
quality, you must use MPEG encoding at a high rate of speed, (at least 400mb
per second). AVI quality is poor and when you realize that even the most
aggressive hardware platforms cannot capture 60 fields per second in full
screen, (or even half screen for that matter), MPEG is the only choice.
My firm runs an MPEG encoding service, contact me if you would like more info.
Dean