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I am brand new to Video capturing. I have an AMD 1800, Win XP, AV Link, FireWire card, 120GB 7200 HD, 512GB ram, PNY TI-4600, Plextor 712 DVD-RW. This morning I captured a little analog video from my Sony Handycam. It looked good in the window while it was recording, but when I played it with MS Movie Maker (I think) it was terrible. Splotchy, blurry, washed out. I was short on time so I did not go any farther but I did try it twice with the same results.