ADVC-100 Huge Size - Help

[Bob Roth]

I have the Canopus ADVC-100 and have been using it successfully for a few weeks. But now I have a problem.

I've connected a VCR to the ADVC-100 via composite cables and am feeding it an older VHS tape recorded at LP (6 hours on the tape). Just inputting the first hour gives me an AVI file of over 60 gig. I cannot understand why this huge size when I haven't gotten such a big resulting file on other tapes. Just one hour yields a file over 60 gig!

Is this the ADVC-100 box doing this?

Am using Video Vegas 4.0 on the PC side to get the ADVC-100 input and do not see any options to moderate the input rate.

Thanks for any advice or considerations.

[thing914]

Have you changed how/what you capture with? I use ScenalyzerLive with my advc and the canopus codec. About 13G per hour.

It sounds like you are now capturing uncompressed with that file size. Did a codec change? Is this the first time you used Vegas? Try GSpot or AVICodec and see what codec is being used.