Looking for a simple analog s-video capture pci card that works with Premiere Pro or Vegas under Vista/Win7. Hauppauge 1250 analog capture samples I made looked horrible, and the ATi Wonder card BSOD'd.

Gunshy, big time. Firewire will not enumerate with our mobo/NB combination, otherwise I'd be going through a Canopus 110 or a digi-cam a/d.

Need card that a) captures long runs of an hour or longer with no hiccups, b) works with Vista and c) can has hardware encoding on analog/s-video signals.

Thanks guys

Why not play your composite signal in to a DVCAM / HDV deck, and use the firewire out to capture digitally in to your computer?

This would bypass the need for a specialised card.

Andrew

Using a digital camcorder with a passthrough is preferable, but our Vista machine's firewire ports do not work. Vista will not 'enumerate' them, even with the suggested registry edit. Something to do with the mobo and northbridge controller.

Analog capture boards worked like a dream for me, under Win98 and XP. Now with Vista and Win7 out, and the horror stories I keep reading...I'm trying to make the right purchase.

We had a TV Wonder, but the capacitors MELTED, and a Hauppauge 150 worked until we fixed a sound issue...

One thing after another, it seemed. We were using a Aiptek hand-held camcorder/pvr and recording straight to SD card. It was perfect. Then it died. :-(

Soooo....that's why I'm here, to find a permanent solution for our analog captures.

You do seem to suffer from a series of most unfortunate events.

You might have to spend the money to make things right, even if it means shelling out a few dollars for a third-party firewire adapter card to go in to your computer.

Andrew