Capturing with canopus advc 300

[blacksheepdownunder]

Hi, I have a canopus ADVC300. I was wondering, am i best to capture with ALL filters off and whats the best software to capture with. Is someone willing to give me a crash course.

[dvd3500]

I just PMed you this:
It's pretty straight forward really.
You need DV AVI software, I use WinDV and have done (on XP, VIsta and Win7 no probs).
You need a mini-firewire port.
The ADVC300 controller software that came with it (or donwoad it from their site)
LOTS of free hard disk space (defraged). (I think 2 hours is like 20-30 gigs)

So you turn your PC off.
plug in the power and hook up the ADVC 300 to the firewire port.

Plug the video and audio OUT to the ADVC's "In" jacks (use S-video if you can, keep cables as short as possible and use high quality ones.

Boot your computer.
Wait for it to be fully booted.
Turn on the ADVC 300.
Wait for windows to recognize it.

Start the ADVC controller software.
Open the preview.
Start your tape and play with the settings until things look like you wanted them to.

Close the preview and open WinDV.

Set where you want to the file to go.
Start capture and stop when it's done!

The dip switches on the bottom don't seem to do much.
I really only use the switch to go between NTSC and PAL. The other ones were either not for me or didn't do anything.

I have captured well over 100 hours without a single frame drop and I hardly ever did any post clean up (filtering). Mostly I had crop and fix letterboxed widescreen moveis to anamorph.

The ADVC 300 built in filters are just much better and faster.

I use MediaStudio Pro 7.3. I just encode at the highest possible bitrate to DVD and if I need to I use DVDshrink to get it to fit a blank DVD.

The quality difference is barely noticeable and it saves a heck of a lot of time since I have an older computer that con just barely encode 25 fps.

Does that help?