ATI AIW capture card

[LOWTECH]

My ATI AIW Capture Card.... Has proved to be useless in capturing my home movies more than 3 years old .... The problem has caused me anger and hours of time wasting in solving the problem Of my non capturing ATI AIW card.

In purchasing a new Panasonic digital camcorder, I bought one with anologue in and out ..... This now captures through firewire capture card with ease ... Shame my ATI AIW CAPTURE card can`t captue old home movies as it treats them as having Macrovision that they don`t have, and capture`s flashing throughout the capture process.

Lesson learned, don`t buy an ATI capture card for old vhs video capturing!

[lordsmurf]

Cannot blame the ATI for damaged tapes. Clean signal. The camera you have it cleaning the signal some.

[canadateck]

Same here I find ATI is hit or miss,Wouldnt really bash the Cards,But I know I'll never buy one again.

[Bodyslide]

I have used both the Original AIW card and now a 9200. No issues with tapes from 10-15 years ago , or ones recorded from a few years ago. I agree with Lordsmurf. Have you tried using another VCR?

[LOWTECH]

My problem has been capturing my anologue home movies that are more than 3 years old through my 3 year old ATI AIW card. Using 3 camcorders over the last 15 years, I have tried using 4 different vcr`s to capture through the AIW card ... Flashing and distortion on top of frame off and on throughout is visable with any attempt to capture. Strangely capturing home movies that are filmed recently prove no problem and also tv capture ok. Tapes that won`t capture on my card will also not capture on someone else`s computer also with an ATI card. ALL of these non captured tapes play perfectly on any vcr and viewed on any TV. None have any damage what so ever, and I have tried patch`s and macrovision removers with no success. So my only conclusion is the AIW card is treating my tapes as having macrovision or whatever?

Changing to another way of capturing through my new digital Panasonic camcorder`s anologue in and out ports and firewire card, my problem has been solved. Using another make of capture card may give perfect results also. Sending an E-Mail to ATI has proved fruitless along with any successful advice from any forum in my case.

My experience of other forums has also proved that I am far from being the only one with this ATI capture failure trouble, even with brand new ATI cards.....If macrovision detection is part of the ATI card make up, then ATI cards seem to be a problem to many in capturing old home movies.

Why the card capture`s new recordings and refuses to capture old tapes is the whole unexplained problem that I have no answer for .... neither for that matter have ATI, as they have not responded with an answer to cure my problem?

My system has a 1200 mhz proccessor, and 384 sdr ram..... I am now capturing without using my ATI card perfectly, with no stress and enjoyment...

I hope this is of help to anybody with a simular problem, try another card!

If anybody has a logical reason for my non capturing of my OLD home movies on my ATI AIW card I would be interested to hear.

[LOWTECH]

Lordsmurf...Cannot blame the ATI for damaged tapes. Clean signal. The camera you have it cleaning the signal some.

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There was no mention of any tape damage in my posting why assume there was?