What is best for video editing?

[tonyvdb]

To get a video editing softwhere package on the PC that will do what the Video Toaster/Flyer can do would cost you well over $1000 if your just trasfuring VHS videos directly to DVD then almost any $150 PC editing program will work but you really need a good PC and a very good capture card to get it right this all costs money and by the time you are done you still cant do as good an editing job or have near as much fun as using the Toaster.
You can find both the Video Toaster and Flyer cards on ebay all the time and should cost no more than $300US to get (You would need to also get one Time base corrector "TBC" as well usualy around $100). SCSI hard drives are a dime a dozen now a days on ebay as long as you stay below the 18 gig sizes 18 gig will give you 1.5 hrs at D2 quality (high quality mode recording) more than suffisent for making DVDs.
The Amiga 4000T was made for the toaster and it works very well. I have had my system for almost 12 years now and it still works like new.

[tonyvdb]

For capturing video on the PC the ATI all in wonder series cards do one of the best jobs. I have an AIW x800xt AGP and it is a supper card but you must have a AMD 1800+ or better for it to capture DVD quality without dropped frames. For anologe PCI cards do a lousy job and do not give you very good captuer abilities.

Tig, I would be intrested in the Newtek software that you mention do you have any other information on it?
Thanks

[tonyvdb]

Thanks, That looks very powerful for such a low price. :-D