[Buckeye]

I had a box full of old Beta and VHS tapes dropped off that had a bunch of old football games on them. My friend is a nut case when it comes to this stuff. I think I did well over 200 tapes a year or so ago.

Captured and encoded all that stuff took a huge amount of time.

I will have to redig out the spec's for the computer, but the heart of it is a Canopus Capture card that does really nice captures. The problem with it is it will only work on a Win XP non updated machine. As soon as you update it the card stops working as its a older card.

So this is a Pentium 4 something or another LOL.

The tape machines are
Beta Deck - Sony SL2710
VHS Deck - JVC HR-S9911U
DVD Deck - Panasonic DMR-E20

So capture with the Canopus card and dumpp to a file. I use Sonic Foundry Video le 3.0 to do the actual capture.
Edited with TMPG MPGEditor which works very nice for this kind of stuff.
Encoded with TMPG Express
Then burt to disk with TMPG DVD Author

Nice thing about TMPG software is its easy to use and can take advantage of multi core setups so I will most likely transfer the edited files over to my main rig and encoded on the 965XE.

I did a test awhile ago on the speed differance vs the Pentium 4. Back then I would caputure maybe 3 full VHS tapes, edit to split things up and then encoded which would take almost a full week. One of the same files took only 30 minutes on the QX9770 so it should be much faster on the 965XE and SSD Raid.

The video encoding station lives on