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I have had good luck with video capture cards. The quality of the usb devices was never very good. If you have a firewire port on your computer Sony and Canopus have encoders that convert video to firewire. The computer will need to be fast, and have lots of disk space. The key to speed will be having the computer optimized for video. That means on a slower machine it should only do video. Most modern computers are fine for video. I however still use a 200mhz pentium box with 7200rpm eide disk drives (47gb) and have captured and edited video using a pinnacle dc10+ capture card. That computer is not fast enough for dvd though, I output back to tape.
I have a p3 800mhz computer here that came from the studio and it will edit video and author DVD just fine.
Bill R
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