Hi All,
Are Canopus advc converters any good? just got a few Hi8 tapes to put to disk nothing fancy. bought video grabber!!! absolute rubbish, looking at hdvc300 old but might do the job or does any one want to be rid of something that would do the same job.I do have an old DV500 in the cuboard but not clever enough to set up in Vista Bis Thank You
John JCJ
PS forgot i could edit message disregard posting below
Sorry it should read Canopus, the eyes are dim and the figers wander!!!!!
I have a Canopus ADVC-55, works well for ingesting analogue footage as a DV stream via Firewire, works well for me!
does anyone know if the elderly ADVC300 works with vista bis
JCJ
As long as you have a Firewire input the ADVC300 should work fine. Canopus converters do not need any 'drivers' to be installed, and are just seen as an 'AVC complaint DV Tape Recorder/Player' by the Firewire input.
I use the ADVC50, mostly for capturing old VHS tapes. It's an earlier version of the one described by Barry above -- except that this earlier model ignores Macrovison.. which can be useful on occasion!
I use either WinDV or Scenalyzer (both free) as the 'capture' program. Both of those should work OK on Vista ( they both work on XP and Windows 7, so logically...)
Hi,
The 300 went for £225 plus p/p well out of my range!! so i have ended up with a canopus advc100 at a much more reasonable price, quite possibly a good move as the 300 appeared to be all bells and whistles and i only need bells!!. Anyone out there got any tips for using the advc100.Thank you.
jcj
now that i've got this ADVC 100 and done a test inport of analog footage,which seems to be ok, but have a few queries. Why when you are in the inport window on the screen with the player an evc 2000E or camera TR3100E switched on connected to the 100 but NOT playing, does the tape position counter in the window continue to count up. the only way to stop it is to power down the players as soon as you swich the power on again the counting starts, i had hoped to use the counter for roughly sorting the junk from the usable What am i do'ing wrong?
jcj
A long time since I used a Canopus and FCP6 as a capture system but it may be that the Computer recognises the stream and starts to count.
I used to run the Canopus as an uncontrollable device through firewire capture on a mac as a replacement for a VTR.
It may be that the analogue signal makes the Canopus send TC to the computer.
I' just capture then view the material. You should be able to scan through it
Thinking back to the days of my Storm 2 system I seem to recall that if you connected via firewire then it obviously took the tape time code but if you switched the input to composite the time counter would just free run whether or not the tape was playing or not.