HI I have an ATI All-in-Wonder 9600xt and I'm trying to record some old VCR tapes to convert to DvD or backup and burn to a DvD dice. I have the VCR connect to the input port on the card, I'm using Pinnacle Studio 8, and I see the video out put on the computer. So when I click to record and play on the VCR it records fine, until I click play of the review of the record on the computer, its all messed up like its on drugs or something. Why wouldn't it work?

Sounds like dropped frames... I believe the ATI is a SOFTWARE capture device. In other words, it captures the raw data, and your cpu along with some software (pinnacle in this case) process the data. Your computer needs to be a newr faster machine in order to do software capture. You can try and capture as mpeg1 and see if that helps. If your machine is too old and slow, then they do sell HARDWARE capture devices such as the Hauppagge win tv usb2. These devices have their own processors that are dedicated to processing the data and your computer has to do nothing other than place the video data on you HDD.

I once had a similar problem ......... until I realized it was me that was on drugs. But seriously .... I'm not familiar with Pinnacle Studio 8 (I use Adobe Premiere), but it might be a problem with the chosen capture format (avi, mpeg, mov, etc). I would imagine there would be an option to capture to a different format. But then again, perhaps your capture card features hardware rendering, in which case you probably can't change the format. Please let us know if you found someone's advice to be helpful.

Hmmm I tend to disagree with Blackbill on your PC. I have an AMD 1700 with 512MB ram and have no problem capturing VCR info. Like Sci-Guy mentioned. Check out your settings on your capture format, if no luck, you may have to contact Pinnacle Support. Pinnacle support is the slowest to say the least. I know because I use it. You may have to send an e-mail to them explaining the problem and see if they can iron it out for you. They try to con you into up-dating $$$$ to a higher version, but just tell them what you have is all you can afford for now...that may work for you. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

Here is where you want to go to post your question, forget Pinnacle support. The only support you will get from them is a jock strap. http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/rea... Here is another top-notch video support forum; a lot of pros hang out here and as long as you use manners they are happy to help you. Post in the CAPTURE section: http://forum.videohelp.com/ There are way too many details we need to answer your question: to capture analog video you need minimall a 2.0 GHz AMD processor, which translates to a 3.0 or higher Intel running at minimally 333FSB. You might get away with 512/pc2800 of RAM, but 1Gig/pc3200 is pretty much the minimal standard now. I am not a fan of the All-In-Wonder card, but if it uses software capture (I don't know if it does or not) I would not count on capturing successfully. You are capturing analog, converting to digital, and them re-converting to (probably) mpeg2 and converting again to DVD format to burn. That's a lot of resource demand, especially if you have an older machine. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.