April 13, 2013 - 21:21
Found the ADVC-55 in a box in the office and was curious to see if Adobe flash encoder would pick it up? Plugged one of our cameras up to it with a Composite feed and then firewire into one of the office Mac's. Adobe flash encoder lists it as a capture device and I can select and get a feed but it's 4x3 not 16x9. The only res size I can select is 720x576 as all the others are just going to make it look strange and there is no 1024x576 or an anamorphic tick box ( like in FCP)
just thought it might be useful to keep? The manual doesn't say it doesn't do 16x9 but also doesn't say it does. Any ideas? Or is this box 4x3 only?
dominic
April 13, 2013 - 22:24
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Re: Using Canopus ADVC-55 & Adobe flash live media encoder 3.2
I use one of these when I want to ingest analogue footage into my edit suite. As far as I know it passes through inwhat ever format (4:3 or 16:9) the original footage was shot in. It`s basically a converter to a DV stream. You need a 6 pin source to operate it or you can purchase a PS to power it. The input is either composite or Y/C.
April 14, 2013 - 06:36
#2
Re: Using Canopus ADVC-55 & Adobe flash live media encoder 3.2
Hi, thanks Barry, did some more digging last night and it would appear that it is only capable of seeing the feed and doesn't see the 16x9 or 4x3 flags that a capture card might see. Because of this it needs you to be able to select it (i.e. in FCP after capture you can set the clip to anamorphic, thus reverting it back to 16x9) unfortunately I don't think this can be done in FLME.