#Which Card?
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Yeah, another new member desperately seeking advice …
I've got a fast(ish) PC with one slot left just waiting for a capture card. I
simply want to plug in a Sony Hi-8 camera, with it either playing back tape or
'live' and capture stills, maybe annotating them later (in CorelDraw or
Photoshop).
So has anyone got a good card they'd recommend?
I'm just itching to spend my cash …
Thanks for helping.
Michael,
I have heard recently of a product called "Snappy" that retails for $199 and is
supposed to do a darn good job of capture in quite high resolutions. It is just
coming to market, so I haven't seen it yet, but I think it would fit the bill
for a decent price. A caveat however, I am not sure if it requires that the
source to be captured is "still" or not. It might, requiring a perfect still
frame when coming from tape, and a stationary video image when coming from a
live source.
-John
John:
>I have heard recently of a product called "Snappy" that retails for $199 and
is supposed to do a darn good job of capture in quite high resolutions. It is
just coming to market, so I haven't seen it yet, but I think it would fit the
bill for a decent price. A caveat however, I am not sure if it requires that
the source to be captured is "still" or not. <
Don't have the beginnings of this thead here, but are we talking about still
grabs or motion capture?
Tim
Tim,
Snappy is a still frame capture device. It uses some sort of algorithm with
which they claim you can capture at very hi-resolutions (circa 1500×900) or so.
It is the first product from a new company called "Play" and interestingly
enough the first product of "NewTek", the folks that make the Video Toaster,
was a very similar device called DigiView, for the Amiga computer. (Play
consists of a number or high-level, ex-NewTekies).
-John
John:
>Snappy is a still frame capture device. It uses some sort of algorithm with
which they claim you can capture at very hi-resolutions (circa 1500×900) or so.
<
Really? 1500×900 pixels, yes? Tasty…and, for around $200, I guess the price
is right, eh?
Still, I can't help being more comfortable w/a motion video capture card that
can give you the option of grabbing either full motion or stills…though a
good one IS more expensive…
Tim
Tim,
re: "more comfortable with a full motion capture card" … AGREED. For the
relatively small difference in price, it almost seems like a no-brainer. Now
the Snappy does connect to the parallel port, which makes it considerably
easier to install, and with the lower price, it probably does have its niche
for DTP, slide shows, etc.
-John
John:
>Now the Snappy does connect to the parallel port, which makes it considerably
easier to install, and with the lower price, it probably does have its niche
for DTP, slide shows, etc.<
So it's an external peripheral and not a card? Well, in that case, it's
definitely got its uses…
Still, I'm w/you–I'll keep my capture card…
Tim