The guide will be the first in a selection of Video Capture, Clean-up, as well as Compression. We will deal entirely with our initial step: Video Capture. Additionally we will go through the rest of the guides, and I encourage you to drop us a couple of words with the suggestions for the posts. While a lot of the lessons to be learned in this guidebook apply to any kind of platforms, the current series of posts will be composed from the view of Personal computer based hardware on Microsoft Windows (largely operating system adaptation agnostic).

Moreover, I've prepared these guidelines with the Hauppauge WinTV-dbx card bearing in my mind, and have decided to apply some moderately specific instruments to take on concrete tasks. Not any other guide can be determinate, and the same case with any technical issues, I have had to strike a correspondence between offering common data that's of use to other forms while also being in-depth enough at times applying particular configurations so to make some crucial points and notices. At last, before I get going, I do want to notice that there are countless other approaches of capturing video, all of which can't be addressed here. There are additional alternatives of importing video like analog-to-digital DV bridges (that can be affordable at $300).

Apparently, TiVo is a buyer solution that does not support moving video off of the appliance (without hacking on), and so there are things like Panasonic's DVD-R recorder, or the ATi All-in-Wonder. I have chosen to deal with a good-quality, affordable solution that also gives you the alternative of recording TV (I will refere the ATi AIW in a further addition). For present, let's commence with video capturing applying a separate video capture card.

As we've moved into the twenty-first century, traditional linear mediums like vinyl, VHS cassettes as well as TVs are being shunned for higher-ranking digital ones, like CDs, DVDs, and high-definition televisions. Not just does digital let higher quality material, but as well it lets exact replication from copy to copy, blocking any encoding technology applied to abruptly finish copying. As computing devices become faster and disk capacity gets larger, surfers are able to more dexterously control their digital data taken from analogue mediums and often "improve" the original analogue content applying assorted methods in the digital world.

This series of guideposts will take you through and through a basic course on the right techniques of capturing analogue video, tidying up the video capturing, and encrypting the digital video into assorted modern formats so that the original analogue content can go into the twenty-first century. The most general application program for this guide will be to make superiority conversions of your home films from VHS or 8mm tapes to videodisk. You could also discover yourself using the following guide to build digital archives of your favourite TV shows.