Hi,
I am newbie, have very little knowledge about movies making.
I received the Canopus ADVC-110 on Friday evening and spent two nights playing with it :P
I tested capturing using Windows Movies Maker, Windv, CaptureFlux. I thought WMM would provide the best capture (avi) files, but to my surprise WinDV did the best job. I downloaded Ulead Studio 10 Plus, Adobe Element Premier 3.0, VirtualDub and plan to test them when I have some times this week.
My task is to transfer my Hi8 tapes to digital, to preserve my family movies. Just capture them, and store in the hard drive, and not edit or anything else now. I will do the 'production' later when I have time.
I read many threads posted here and on some other forums, but I have not found the answers for my questions below, therefore I appreciate if you guys can give me the answers and any other advices.
My question are:
1/ Which sofware can provide the best capture, in term of preserving the original quality as much as I can ? What setup should should the format be ? I can add/upgrade my hard drive(s), so the size of the capture files is not a problem. The quality is the highest priority.
2/ How come WinDV provide better capture quality than Windows Movie Maker ?
3/ I know Adobe EP3.0 and Ulead Studio 10 Plus each costs approximately $100. Are they worth the price, comparing with VirtualDub? Or just personal preferences ?
4/ Is there a guide for using the ADVC-110 somewhere? The manual does not reccommend any software to use..
5/ I use Windows Movie Maker to burn a short (10 minutes) clip to a DVD-RW and view it on my LG player. It looks good. However I believe there are other better software for encoding/compress and save the clip to DVD. What is your favorite ?
6/ My Sony Hi8 CCDTRV65 is very reliable and still running like a charm, but I know the tapes are not the best. Any reccomendation for a new camcorder: miniDV ? miniDVD ?
My setup:
Dell XPS400 Dualcore, 2GB, 250GB, 256MB w.DVI
Canopus ADVC-110
Sony Hi8 CCDTRV65 (9year-old)
Many thanks for your inputs !
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- How to Capture Video using Canopus ADVC110. Posted by Chris on 1-13-2010. And video capture software, you are nearly ready to start capturing video. To begin the process, connect your VCR or Cam to the Canopus with the RCA cables. After this, open your video capture software, and in the options, set the capture folder up so you know where.
- Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for ADVC110 A/d Converter at Amazon.com. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. This product does not include any editing or capture software, but it works flawlessly with Windows movie maker and Apple's imovie. The monitor output on the Canopus ADVC110 made it easy to.
Capturing VHS to Vegas? FilmingPhotoGuy wrote on 8/5/2014, 2:57 AM. Undoubtedly your device came with some software to capture video. Use that program, save the file, and then edit that result in Vegas if you wish. Way back when I have used the Canopus ADVC 100 to capture analog video from VCRs. Gas turbine engineering handbook 4th edition pdf. Via firewire with excellent results. Hello, I am in the process of transfering some old video tapes to my laptop. I just bought a Canopus ADVC-110 to link up my VCR to my laptop. My question is, once I do that, will I be able to capture using just the laptop, the vcr, and the Canopus? Or will I still need a software program in order to record what will be shown on my laptop's screen? ADVC110 also allows conversion of analog audio signals only, when needed. Long product life The broadest video equipment and editing software compatibility ensures ADVC110 provides a long product life and a high return on investment. A video capture card or IEEE 1394 FireWire connection is required to capture DV. Canopus ADVC110 Features.
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So this might be pretty specific but thought I'd throw this out since I'm having some issues. Purchased a Canopus ADVC 110 audio/video capture box off Amazon to convert some old Hi8 tapes to digital with. Using a system with an old Sony camcorder that connects to the Canopus, and from the Canopus to desktop via Firewire. Also using some free software called ScreenLive (cant remember) that takes captured video/audio from Canopus and saves to AVI format. Doing all of this on Windows 10 on an old machine, but luckily the Firewire legacy drivers are installed and my software can detect and capture an actual image from the camcorder.
The problem is that I have quite a few annoying clicks and pops in the capture audio. After testing with different camcorders, a/v cables, and TVs, the popping sound is NOT coming from the camcorder, a/v cable leading out of camcorder, nor the tape itself. Hooked it up to a big screen TV and the audio sounds great. I've narrowed down that it's still a multitude of possible issues: bad firewire cable, bad free software, desktop is too old and can't capture properly for some reason (doesn't drop frames which IS good.), Windows 10 is causing something, or worse case scenario that the Canopus unit ITSELF is somehow defective.
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Still troubleshooting via trial-and-error, but wanted to see if anyone here has had these issues with the Canopus / GrassValley converter boxes or similar capture hardware. Thanks!
Edit: There are six DIP switches on the bottom of the Canopus unit that have some related NTSC/PAL, fixed audio options. Noticed that one of the switches was set to 48 khz audio stream or something. Switching that to the lower 32 khz audio stream DID reduce the pops and clicks in the audio by a good amount, but not enough.
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