ATI Capture Vid to DVD

I recently purhcased an ATI All-In-Wonder Video Card. I have yet to install it, but wondered if any here have had success with it. I want to record football/basketball games to my PC and then burn to DVD. I wanted some advice in handling this. First - I don't know what format ATI records in. Second - What kinds of programs can I use to remove commercials and create chapter points? Thanks for any assistance!!

I'm far from being even competent on capture issues, but until someone bops in with solid help, here's the . This will give you something to sink your teeth into, there's tons of good info in this document. ammck55

Sound sync is always an issue with our PCI capture cards, because the sound is actually captured by our sound cards. When using the capture card with a tuner for RF signals -- which has its own issues -- the sound is sent to the soundcard with a patch cord. A lot of us capture in a lossless format, such as HuffYUV/AVI. That way, the maximum detail is obtained from the capture card, and editing does not produce any losses. We then encode from that lossless format into our final format, typically MPEG-1, MPEG-2, or MPEG-4. In your case, you would be using MPEG-2 for DVD video, and then authoring your DVD from there. I'd like to point you to two guides that may be helpful. The first is the forum's , which shows you a step by step process for capturing to AVI. While it also shows post processing for a number of final formats ... unfortunately, those do not include DVD. A very good guide for that is bb's , from the DV Forum. DV is a form of AVI used by many consumer digital video cameras, and, while lossy, can be thought of as similar to HuffYUV from a post processing perspective. A blend of the two guides may be just what you need to get started. Additionally, Doom9 has two AVI->DVD conversion guies in his web page. I hope this helps!

@ mbbransc I didn't have a chance to compare MPEG quality with S-VHS. I mostly capture content from digital cable, and the quality loss is noticeable on computer monitor, but not on a regular TV. Keep in mind that since you perform an analogue capture, there bound to be some loss in quality in any case . I used to have minor audio sync problems with older versions of their MMC software but they went away once I upgraded to ver.7.7. If you just bought your card, it probably comes with ver.8. Keep your sound card drivers up-to-date, too. Since you're just getting started, my suggestion would be try MPEG-2 capture first along with DVD authoring. Then if you're not satisfied with video quality, go ahead and research other capture methods. As jggimi mentioned, usually it's lossless capture into AVI file, which you later convert into MPEG-2 and then feed to a DVD authoring program. The latter creates DVD structure including VIDEO_TS folder. Be prepared though: if you think Capture FAQ is a lot of information, there is way more than that when it come to video format conversion.