
or should I get a differnt card if I'm going to use the Canopus do you think? I've got around 300 videos to convert and I'm looking for a little speed as well as quality here. I'm using the Pinnacle AV/DV capture card, but I just had a little luck with the local lottery and I'm going to get that Canopus ADVC-300 device now and use that in conjuntion with it. I think I've figured out how to use the Huffy codex for compression using it, so I'll test that out to see what happens.

I can't stand the studio 9 software though because it takes so looooong to render anything.

Is it really so great? I can't capture directly to MPEG because my processer is only 900 Mhz. I already have CCE basic for the encoding so it seems a waste to buy such an expensive(for me) program for capture. I've seen you mention Mainconcept Encoder before and I looked at that but that costs $150.- and that's a little much just for a capture program.

The only guide I could find for getting one of them going included using Adobe Premier which is like $1,500.- and that was a little much for me. Yay! I tried Virtual-VCR and Virtual-Dub but I just couldn't quite get either one of them to work and it just got too frustrating. It was a bug, the new release fixed it and I am now able to capture again.
