What Capture Card For Analogue Footage?

I am trying to capture old footage from VCR tapes and Sony Hi-8. I have FCE 3.5.1 installed on MacBook Pro 2.4GHz. What kind of capture card would be required? Any advise?

You might want to do a search on this forum for the PYRO. I remember seeing it in a number of discussions about problems.
With a laptop, you are limited to an external analog/DV converter. The analog material is fed into it using S-VHS/RCA cables and the DV comes out via Firewire into the computer. (as you probably have figured out ...)
The Data-100 Ian mentions is one choice, the other is the ADVC line from Canopus. Personally, I've had good results with the ADVC-300. It includes a line TBC which helps with the chroma and timing issues old analog material will invariably have.
Oh, and get an external firewire drive to store the media. You do not what to be placing these large files on your system disk.
Good luck.
x

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