The devices vary, but the best results are generally had with PCI Bus
mastering devices. I would highly recommend the Miro DC30Plus, as it comes
with Adobe Premiere 4.2. However, if this is a one-off project, it's price
(849.00) would be prohibitively high. A newer device, whic would do the job
well if reviews are any indication, would be the new Iomega Buz, which is
integrated with a UW Scsi controller and retails for 199.99. You'll have to
do some serious compression to get that video clip down to a manageable
size, so I highly recommend getting ahold of Premiere, as it supports a
wide variety of video formats. As long as you use video for windows format,
you shouldn't have to supply a viewer, unless you use a different codec.


FWIW

stan


At 01:13 PM 4/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I need to capture short (5 - 10 seconds) worth of video from a VHS tape and
>(a) imbed it in a help file and (b) send it, with viewer if necessary, to
>clients. I have blue sky's winhelp development suite so putting the clip in
>a help file is no real problem.  The problem is what hardware and software
>do I need to capture the video data from the VHS tape and what software do I
>need to share the clip standalone with clients.
>Am running W95b and W98 beta systems for development machines using VBA and
>VB5 for language/data acess. All target machines are 32bit platforms.
>TIA
>Jim Smithheisler
>
>
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