[MacDV] Re: vhs conversion

[Richard Meyeroff]

I am going to be converting 4-6-8 hour VHS tape taped from the TV. 
What I want to do is convert the tape to DV delete the shows we no 
longer want and then burn them to DVD.


>The DataVideo tec works on Macs, as do virtually all the converter boxes.
>They just take an analog signal and convert it to dv via firewire which Macs
>have had as a standard for about 7 years.
>
>Many PC's still don't come with built in firewire.
>
>I have used 4 different manufacturers converter boxes quite a bit. (Sony,
>ADS, DataVideoTek, Canopus). All work well. I have heard the Miglia also
>works well.
>
>I have used some other boxes that I didn't like, Formac Studio being the
>worst, in my experience, YMMV.
>
>The audio doesn't go out of sync on any of them. (captures of an hour or
>more)
>
>Unless the camera was set to 32khz/12 bit audio, or you are capturing across
>a lot of timecode breaks.
>
>Locked Audio is a feature of the DVCam spec. It locks the audio to each
>frame. The normal dv spec allows the audio to drift within 1 sec (30 frames)
>before relocking, but in really it only drifts a frame or two.
>If it drifted a whole second, then the audio would just stop and restart at
>the beginning of the next second. Which I've never heard happen.
>
>Loss of audio sync on long captures is virtually always either 32khz audio
>or many tc breaks, neither of which is addressed by Canopus' Locked Audio
>"feature".
>
>  regards,
>
>  sb
>
>
>On 5/26/05 12:44 PM, "Nick Scalise" <nickscalise at mac.com> wrote:
>
>>  On Thursday, May 26, 2005, at 11:52AM, Patty Winter 
>><patty1 at sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  Jamie already answered the question about disk space, so I'll just
>>>  put in another recommendation for the Canopus A/D converter. I have
>>>  an ADVC-100 as well, and it works great.
>>
>>  One more vote for the ADVC-100 from me.
>>
>>  Also, the ADVC-100 will defeat Macrovision'ed tapes too. I do not 
>>know if this
>>  functionality has survived through to the ADVC-110. Helped me transfer some
>>  movies to DVD that would not play on the living room vcr, happy kids now...
>>
>>  Thirdly, Canopus advertises Audio Sync Lock, said to keep audio in sync over
>>  longer captures.
>>
>>  Q: Has anyone that is *not* using a Canopus unit ever experienced 
>>their audio
>>  going out of sync on longer analog captures? Just curious if 
>>Canopus actually
>>  has an advantage or not.
>>
>
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