Capturing NTSC HELP!!!

Hey all, OK...so i need a final answer on this. I got the Flyvideo2000 and it can only capture 640x480 tops for mpeg2 and avi. Now....the big question is....shouldn't I have gotten a card that can do 720x640 to do proper mpeg2's for dvd burning? It refuses to do this for me even though the website says it is capable. Any ideas folks? The support sucks and i'm stuck. ;( I need to get past this stage if i ever hope to move on to....*GASP*....editing and eventually burning.

As far as horsepower is concerned... P4 266 1 gig of ram It was actually put together by a colleague of mine for the purpose of doing this editing and mixing and eventually burning. The source is SVHS right now and will eventually be laserdisc. I need something basic at this point and all the guides I find seem to be aimed at creating VCD's or SVCD's. I doubt I can return the card but i'm just concerned that the site says I can capture 720x640 but then the program tells me I can't. Thanks for your advice. Any more would be appreciated.

VirtualDub for capture but not 1.5.2, it's got some bugs. Try HuffYUV first because it's free or register a good DV or MJPEG codec. DV is slightly lossy but you'd be grabbing at a higher resolution than your S-VHS deck puts out so no big deal. Use an S-Video cable. If you can capture at 720x480, do it. It's not a perfect multiple but still good. Calibrate your display then calibrate your settings for capture. Don't remember where I saw a tutorial on histogram while capturing. best captures will have some calibration first. Use the various cleanup filters to reduce noise. Crop and letterbox to get rid of jagged edges.

OK so i'm using VirtualDub to capture using the HUFFYUV codec, correct? Which version of Virtualdub should I use? Is there an online guide to VirtualDub? I gotta be honest. It was one of the first ones I downloaded and it seemed pretty crappy although everyone around here seems to use it. I guess it just doesn't seem user friendly. So if I can't do 720, should I buy a card that can and complain to Lifeview? Is there going to be a noticeable loss in quality? Thanks for all of your help!

use a search engine to match the two phrases "VirtualDub" and "capture". You probably nixed VirtualDub because it isn't a big pretty composition package. The problem is probably your software. Notable loss? Probably not much. 720x640 is not a standard resolution. 720x480 is what you probably meant.

It's typical that you didn't answer my questions.

Typical??? lol i answered one of the two. Sorry. MP3's are shit quality...to put it bluntly. They're horrible and compressed. And I would hope that people who care about quality wouldn't want to use it. Does that satisfy you?

In both cases you are talking nonsense.