Will these components (digitizer and TBC) do what I need?

[tquinn]

Hello,

I've read several of the forums to get background, and just want to finalize the direction I need to go. My purpose is to digitize and edit family videos, sourced on Beta and Hi8 tapes. I intend to store them ans .avi, and also make DVDs for near term viewing.

I have Pinnacle Studio 9 plus, with its own digitizing breakout box. But the Pinnacle product has a known problem of Audio Out of Sync when capturing, even with a pretty good computer like mine. Pinnacle is not responding to the problem, that has been reported by a number of its customers on its webboard, and seems to have gotten worse with recent patch releases. So after reviewing information here, I've come to the conclusion that I should move on to using a different ditigitizer.

I also have a problem that some of my content is on older Beta tapes, from which I've not being able to get some of the frames to stabilize (or even jumping rapidly back and forth between scenes actually a few seconds apart). Will a time-base corrector help this? Some of these old tapes also have occasional dropouts. Is there any relatively low cost dropout compensator on the market?

For an external digitizer, it seems there is a lot of respect for the Conopus ADVC-100. I've also seen advertised the ADS Pyro A/V Link Pro, which claims to be like the Conopus? Or Datavideo's DAC-100? Any thoughts on relative quality/ performance.

If you think a TBC is helpful, I see a lot of mention of the DataVideo TBC-1000. Is that the best answer for my needs, are are their alternatives?

I also already own an old Videonics analogue video enhancer that permits some color corrections and noise/sharpness adjustments.

Do I need any other hardware to get what I need?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Terry Quinn

[FulciLives]

If you want a quality "digitalizer" without any A/V sync problems then I would go with one of the following:

1.) DataVideo DAC-100
2.) Canopus ADVC-100 or ADVC-110
3.) Canopus ADVC-300 (probably overkill though)

As for as an affordable TBC goes:

1.) AVT-8710 (about $195 USD)
2.) DataVideo TBC-1000 (about $290 USD)

The cheapest place for both of these TBC devices seems to be B&H PHOTO & VIDEO

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[tquinn]

The Datavideo Time Base Corrector is about $100 more than the TV One unit. Has anyone reported any difference in capability or quality?

Terry

[FulciLives]

The Datavideo Time Base Corrector is about $100 more than the TV One unit. Has anyone reported any difference in capability or quality?

Terry

Some people say the DataVideo is better ... some people say the AVT-8710 is better.

If it were me and my hard earned money I'd get the AVT-8710

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Dr_Layne]

The Datavideo Time Base Corrector is about $100 more than the TV One unit. Has anyone reported any difference in capability or quality?

Terry

Some people say the DataVideo is better ... some people say the AVT-8710 is better.

If it were me and my hard earned money I'd get the AVT-8710

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

The AVT-8710 includes some additional features like color, brightness, sharpness adjustments. It has video only I/O's on it. It displays color bars if the video signal complete drops. This may not be desirable but it is a really good value.

The TBC-1000 has no additional features, includeds audio pass thru, and has four outputs (great for outputing to more than one device at a time like a live TV broadcast which I will capture and record to SVHS as a back up at the same time.).

I have both of these units and prefer the TBC-1000 for my particular set up.

[tquinn]

Thanks for the additional information.

Terry