Capture Card

[nicholasandre]

Hey all MacRumor-ers
I am looking into purchasing a Capture card for mac. And I'm not sure how to begin. Any suggestions on what kind of capture card and what applications i can use it on? (iMovie perhaps?)

I am looking to record old VHS to my computer. I have some old homemade movies. I also would be nice to know how to setup a game console to record.

Thanks again

 

[Chaos123x]

Card?

You have a mac pro or powermac with card slots?

Or do you need a USB or firewire device?

 

[Sonicjay]

http://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products/Video-Capture/product1.en.html

 

[nicholasandre]

Card?

You have a mac pro or powermac with card slots?

Or do you need a USB or firewire device?

Yes a USB or firewire please. Sorry i did not specify

 

[Chaos123x]

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/videorecorder/ For HD.



If you can find a used Canopus ADVC 110 for SD I would get that.

 

[BullBoyKennels]

Not sure what your trying to capture as many here have given good products to use, one that I use personally is the ADVC-300 that connents via firewire 400 but the inputs to it from other devices are componet or S/Video it's not a cheap item but works very well. You can check out Canopushttp://desktop.grassvalley.com/products/videoconversion.php

Oh didn't see you want to capture game play as well, then with your options I would use the Hauppage HD PVR 1212 http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html Since it will let you record in HD as well.

 

[evil_santa]

a DV cam with video input should also work as a DV bridge, converting the video in to DV.