NEW Canopus ADVC-50

[Valnar]

For all you Firewire users that don't want to spend the money on the Canopus ADVC-100, you can get its little brother, the ADVC-50. It does
analog-->digital conversion only, instead of analog<-->digital like the 100.

If you only want to capture analog to your hard drive, instead of output it back again, this and a firewire card should cure all your capture headaches.

http://www.canopuscorp.com/ppt_advc50.htm

No, I have not used it, but might buy it soon.....

-Robert

[joeAgain------]

Darn!

I wish I'd known about this 2 weeks ago!

I HAD a PYRO Firewire card, but could not afford the additional 300 something dollars for the ADVC-100(which would have brought my video capturing "investment" up to about $400.

So, I sent back the firewire card and got a Dazzle Digital Video Creator II system instead(should be delivered any day) for a little over $200.

Did I do wrong? Will the Dazzle Digital Video Creator II work as well?

Darn!!

[Valnar]

No Dazzle product can do better than a Canopus product. I don't even need to look up the specs to make that judgement!


Robert

[D_Knife]

joeAgain------

You and I have talked about the DVC II in the past - have faith in the DVC II

What Valnar said is stretching the truth a little and sort of comparing apples to oranges

The DVC II is great for easy captures where you want to capture a straigh block of video and put it onto a burnable disc ( CD or DVD )

The canopus is a DV "capture" unit - you still have to massage the DV footage into a MPEG format, it is good if you need to slice / dice and add fancy transitions in Premiere or MediaStudio, but at the end of the day the DVC II produces a nice useable MPEG stream ready for burning

I would love to be able to afford the Canopus unit in addition to my DVC II but I know in my heart that is not practical for the sort of video stuff I do. If you have enough money you can use both together they are not mutually exclusive

[Bluesky22]

I've had the ADVC-100 every since it came out, and the quality is awesome, I've never dropped a frame, and its easy to use, plus the fact that it has an output, so I've been able to consdense some of my fifty or so misc. videos in to alot less, I would never have purchased the ADVC-50 b/c it doesn't have an output. I use premiere and ccesp, or Pinnacle studio 7, which has a DV firewire (came with my computer) to run from the ADVC.
I don't know about dazzle and all that other stuff b/c I've never used it, but I think it would be just as easy to use, and by no means do you have to use some as complicated as premiere to edit with, nor do you even have to edit anything, I just capture it to my computer, pick what format/ and codec I want to use, and its done.
Anyway, the point to my point is to be careful, b/c I don't know about others with the ADVC, but unless I am capturing diretly from my tv, or from video which is 98% quality, then the quality comes out pretty bad..I have bunch of concerts which I am converting, and most of them come out really choppy, so much so, that its unwatchable...I talked to a technician from Canopus, and they suggested that perhaps I need a new/better vcr---->but that's not the case, the s-vcr I have a purchased at the same time as the ADVC....So, I posted on this forum, and someone suggested a time-base corrector which I am waiting to arrive in the mail this week, and the cheapest one I found was about another $300 dollars,

So, to make a long story short, I'd definetely check first with other people that have the advc-100 b/c running to buy the advc-50 just b/c its 100 dollars cheaper. I don't know anyone else that has this so I don't know if they've tried to capture older videos and had the same problem or not, but like I said, for tv and that type of stuff it works 100%
and..this is all just from my personal experience
wow, its real early, and I'm rambling on..