Waiting for my Canopus ADVC55, AVT-8710

[Osm3um]

I am anxiously awaiting my Canopus 55 and am curious if anyone has any tips/tricks etc.

Initially I will be trying to capture from a hand held recorder (instead of tearing apart my home theater system) for testing purposes. Then I am planning on moving to my purchased collection and work on backing those up.

I also have an AVT-8710 tbc coming but it will not be here until next week. Tips on the 8710 would be appreciated as well.

I was hoping/thinking of capturing to Mpeg on the fly, for use on a video DVD, but not sure how well that will work so I may just have to convert the DV to mpeg later...

System is: Athlon XP 1.7 (OCed to 180x10), 1gb, Asus A7N8X rev. Deluxe, 74gb SATA Raptor (36gb free space) and a 30gb 5400rpm HD. NEC 2500a DVD burner etc.

All tips/tricks appreciated,
Bob (new capture guy)

[FulciLives]

Learn to use AviSynth and filters since that is KEY to making videos look their best.

As you may know DV video uses a 4:1:1 color system which isn't the greatest but there is a VirtualDub and AviSynth filter to deal with this.

Also the Convolution3D filter for AviSynth is pretty incredible.

As for your MPEG-2 encoder I suggest Cinema Craft Encoder aka CCE BASIC

Hard to go wrong with all that

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[ronnylov]

I beleive PAL DV is 4:2:0 color system and NTSC 4:1:1, right?
DVD is 4:2:0 right?
Going from PAL DV to DVD would not loose any color information then?

[FulciLives]

I beleive PAL DV is 4:2:0 color system and NTSC 4:1:1, right?
DVD is 4:2:0 right?
Going from PAL DV to DVD would not loose any color information then?

I think you are right but I live in NTSC land and tend to think that way

- John "FulciLives" Coleman