What's a good video cature device?

So I was wondering, what is a good media capture device for
streaming? I'm thinking an external for portability purposes. Also
when I buy one, whats a good software to get along with it? Adobe
Premiere Elements, Sony Vegas+DVD Production Suite? I'm sort of new
to the video side of web design.
Also, if i'm doing HD. Would I have to buy on of those really
expensive ones? Not just the ones for DV. But also, MPEG/HD/HDV
etc.?

I'm also using 1680x1050 on two wide screen monitors on two different nvidia cards. a nvidia7900 and a nvidia6800. Everything works fine. They are set up as independent screens. The third monitor isen't a wide screen and it's on a third card nvidia geforce4. Anyway, if it helps, you can find my xorg.conf file in the wiki. It's the last one in the list.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … conf_Files
The only thing I changed in the file since I posted it was the order of the font paths.
Last edited by Leigh (2007-08-28 05:27:00)

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