What is the cost of producing my own streaming video?
If you do decide on producing and capturing streaming video, this is what you can expect. Your investment in hardware and software is just the tip of the iceberg, usually being several thousand dollars for low to mid-priced equipment alone. You’ll need a video capture card, sound and picture editing software, a video deck, an AV rated hard drive with a significant amount of storage capacity, and a back-up preferably in the form of a CD drive you can archive to. Assuming you make the right choices on all of your hardware and software purchases your first time out, and you don’t need to purchase different equipment which is better suited to the task, it’s now time to learn not only how to capture and convert your movies, but also how to enhance both picture and audio quality prior to conversion. If you skip this step, your finished product will be of inferior quality. After many attempts, you may stumble upon some settings that produce acceptable results for the particular movie clip you
