Can anybody help me?
I currently have an Iomega Buz video capture card fitted to my PC system which consists of a Pentium 2 450mhz , 128mb ram with two large EIDE hard drives.Although the card took some time setting up it now runs fine .The only problem is that I want to produce movies suitable for VHS with a duration of 30 minutes to an hour but run into the windows 98 2 gb file limitation.
I also purchased the full version of Videowave but find some of the affects and titling poor quality when played on the TV.
I also have a Panasonic DS77 digital camcorder with fire wire output.
Is this capture card out of date now and should I bite the bullet and go down the DV route. Heeeeeeeeeeelp!
The 2Gb limit is Microsoft orientated I'm afraid so ALL cards will come across this.
I have the DV Raptor which 'cheats' the system my enabling you to capture seamless video by writing smaller files and 'knitting' them back together.
Unless your Buzz supports this 2Gb 'cheat' then you're stuck.
Take a look at http://www.nct.ch/multimedia/avi_io/ for a nice (haven't tried it myself yet) little program called AVI_IO. It will allow you to overcome this 2GB limit. It captures to several files up to 4 GB each and can also play back the files seamlesly. (Hopefully) It's worth a try, I guess...
/Jocke
Thanks for your advice chaps!
Two things,
Either
You'll find the Buz works much better with the 1.3 drivers (no colour loss on rendering etc). Get these from http://buzinfo.tsx.org.
Or
Buy a Raptor!
Martin