Is 3dFX 3500 voodoo3 a good capturing device?

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I have a Voodoo3 3DFX 3500, is it a good capturing device? I'm trying to get a movie that is on VHS to VCD. I trying to make the movie look it's best. What should i do?

Thanks alot

-- :)no need (crashnburn62@hotmail.com), October 18, 2000

Answers

Buy a decent card

-- Nige (narnold@cableinet.co.uk), October 20, 2000.

That voodoo vidcap card captures, for one, using MPEG-2 I-frame. MPEG- 2 is already a compressed format which may not produce the best VCD MPEGs later. Choose another vidcap that captures with some AVI codec.

-- MT (turk690@yahoo.com), October 20, 2000.

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