I have an analogue capture card and I use a Hitachi Dv cam. I plugin my camera to my vcr and record the footage I have onto a blank tape. Then I use the footage from the tape and hook it up to my analogue capture card. Do I lose alot of image quality this way, if so can anyone recommend a good capture card for this type of camera. It records onto dvd's.

Get firewire...
You will need a firewire card (unless your computer has one already), you can get one for 30-40 bucks US...and then it SHOULD come with a cable and if not, get one for 10-15 bucks...

And then plug the cable into the camera (if it's digital, it has the input), and into the card (which is in your comptuer) and capture...perfect quality.

MuRpHmAn StUdIoS

Yeah, your losing a considerable amount of picture quality. I would really recommened getting a firewire card. No reason to shoot digital, just to throw it all away on VHS.
R. M.

And you shall know us by the trail of dead.

do you have a hitachi dv-ram? If so, they only use the usb 1 or 2.0 editing interface. But if you do have the dvd-ram camera, I'd buy a dvd player for $50(if you don't have one) and capture from there. Look for a program to rip dvd's or whatever. I think the camera records to mini dvd's.

cant you just rip the files off the dvd ram onto your hard disk via your dvd rom drive? they are already in mpeg2 format