I bought an analogue video to cd converter card through a friend in Europe. It was several years ago and I forgot whether the card came with leads or pins or not but there were some C.D.s with it.

This is the brand name:
Pinnacle systems
Redstone 5.0

My computer technician loaded it on to my computer and it was working partly (I think the sound was missing). He went away promising to come back the next day, but never returned. He had also stolen some C.D.s and other stuff which I only realised much later.

What had happened was I decided to uninstall and reinstall the card/ software. But after I uninstalled it I realised the installation C.D.s were missing. One of the CDs I had been left with was a content CD for Pinnacle studio 8 DC 10 plus, and so I thought getting another cd of that software will solve my problem.

My card has been left unused since then.

I took a programme of pinnacle studio from some one, but my card just does not catch the video input.

What else could be missing that my card just doesn't work. Do I need a driver for this card. Where can I find a driver for it, without having to pay for it (I've already spend on it more than it is worth!).

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

OK--- what I *think* you have is a PCI video capture card with an RCA video input?

Your sound is probably not going to come from the video capture card itself. You are probably going to use the "Line In" port on your sound card right? If you connected a camcorder (for example), then you would connect the 'video out' to the 'video in' on the capture card, and the 'audio out' to the 'line in' on the sound card

I occasionally use programs like "Windows Media encoder" to encode, and when I start the program, it gives options for selecting the sources from which I can obtain audio/video. I imagine any other program having the same options.
As long as your video card appears on the list of available devices, then you should be able to use it.

As far as encoding video and audio onto a CD- just out of curiosity, what FORMAT was is recording to disc with? I don't imagine it to be full blown AVI or anything unless it was either really low rez, or realy short (like - 15 minutes long as the limit). .

Of course, I could be wrong.

the very first result returned in a google search of pinnacle systems
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Home/

Thank you Leopold.

I have done a lot of searching for this driver. Lots of computer professionals in my area have tried to look for it on the net. They could find nothing.

Well of course I have found a copy of pinnacle DC 10 plus, but that does not make my video card work.

The video card does not take input from my analogue camcorder.

None of the sites (including that of pinnacle) has any information about this video to cd card that I have.

It is not clear if the Pinnacle's editing software comes with a this card. And if it requires a driver.

OK--- what I *think* you have is a PCI video capture card with an RCA video input?

Your sound is probably not going to come from the video capture card itself. You are probably going to use the "Line In" port on your sound card right? If you connected a camcorder (for example), then you would connect the 'video out' to the 'video in' on the capture card, and the 'audio out' to the 'line in' on the sound card

I occasionally use programs like "Windows Media encoder" to encode, and when I start the program, it gives options for selecting the sources from which I can obtain audio/video. I imagine any other program having the same options.
As long as your video card appears on the list of available devices, then you should be able to use it.

As far as encoding video and audio onto a CD- just out of curiosity, what FORMAT was is recording to disc with? I don't imagine it to be full blown AVI or anything unless it was either really low rez, or realy short (like - 15 minutes long as the limit). .

Of course, I could be wrong.
Thanks for your interet.

The problem is the list of source does not detect or list my video capture card.

My video recorder is an analogue one. It records on HDD video tape. The old fashioned one. It's not a digital video.

Is that the right answer to your question or did you mean something else?

Also I should mention that my card has two pin-sockets. One is labelled "Video-in" and the other is "video-out". (I don't know what the video-out feature is for). So there is no room to insert my audio pin. But maybe I can use a two-to-one convertor.

Leopold the site you gave me does not have any information about my product.

I need a card to digitalise my video input because I'm using an analogue video. Had it been a digital video there would not have been any problem at all, and no use to use a card.

This card is supposed to covert analogue images to digital images.

Sling it in the bin, and buy a TV Tuner that comes with capture software. Recent TV tuners also work for Digital Terrestrial (free to air) transmissions, if you can receive those.

Dunno what the chipset is on your card, but I had an ATI capture card that dropped the sound. I returned it, got another, and it had the same fault, and they dropped that model. Mind you, that was like 8 years ago, but the cards are pretty cheap now, and it's probably going to be quicker than finding that driver.