Canopus ADVC 110

[SerbianBoss]

I 100% decided to buy Canopus ADVC 110, but i have some questions.

1. What is the picture with this converter? Is picture better than my Leadtek winfast PVR 2000 with hardware mpeg2?

2. How this convertor work with a regular video (no TBC)?

3. How is adudio-video sychronisation, good or bad?

4. How this convertor work with bad VHS cassets? Thas to many frames dropped? And when frame dropped thas picture is normall?

best regard

[redwudz]

1. Probably. But you still have to convert the DV to MPEG-2 and that is where the picture can deteriorate. This depends on encoder settings.

2. Works fine. A TBC will always help, especially with home made VHS tapes. But try it first by itself. With VHS tapes, the quality of the VCR makes a difference, along with the quality of the tapes. Some use a JVC VCR with a built in TBC.

3. That's one of it's best features. Audio and Video sync are locked together.

4. It shouldn't drop any frames. But it will still have problems with noisy VHS tapes as any video converter would.

[SerbianBoss]

What problems with noice tapes you mean? Did you mean on dropped frames or picture quality?

One more question.

When i transwer VHS to computer using Canopus ADVC 110 will be picture be Noisy or not?

[SerbianBoss]

any comment?

[FulciLives]

The quality of the capture is very good and will be very close to the original meaning if the orginal video has a lot of "video noise" so will the capture but if the orginal video has very little "video noise" so will the capture. In other words it will not make the video look worse but it will not make the video look better. There are things you can do after the capture to try and improve the picture such as various filters made to "clean up" video noise etc.

The device keeps A/V sync very well and will not drop frames unless the video source is not stable ... if you have dropped frames with the Canopus ADVC-110 the problem is almost always the source video and the only way to really fix that is with a TBC device.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Fos]

My advices for transfer to DVD :

-You want to transfer some tapes?
-Get a Pvr card like Wintv hauppage and a normal VCR. (60€)

-You want to transfer and edit tapes?
-Get a Analog>DV device like Canopus advc 55(100€) .
-I would get a Jvc svhs vcr (ebay.de the 7500 model with tbc/dnr , finish the most of times in 80-100 €)

-You want to transfer , edit and remaster tapes with the best quality possible?
-Get an ati aiw card (30€)
-Get a Framesynchronizer (300€)
-Get a Svhs vcr with Tbc/dnr(>100€)
-*optional (a mpeg2 encoder by hardware) (>200€)
-Harddrive with 200 gb(80€)

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