First of all I'm a total newbie at capturing as you will soon seen
I would like to be able to capture from my vcr to my pc.
I've received a advc 100 today and I have conected it to a firewire
card in my pc.
I have conected my vcr to it via a scart in the vcr to a s-video and a
l&r audio in conections (red& white) these are all in the front panel
of the advc.
The switches on the bottom are all off except switch 1 which is set to
pal on.
The blue light on the front is on analog-in
I have tried to capture using Premiere Pro by playing a video and then
going to file/capture I don't see a preview (dont know if I should or
not) and when I press record and then stop after a while it says
"recorder captured no frames"
I've put a screen grab of the settings at the folowing site
http://www.geocities.com/stormcrowuk/
Any advice would be greatly appreciated I have also tried studio 8 but
no luck there either.

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Thanks

Remove the obvious

"Norcat" wrote in message
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snip

I have tried to capture using Premiere Pro by playing a video and then
going to file/capture I don't see a preview (dont know if I should or
not) and when I press record and then stop after a while it says
"recorder captured no frames"
snip

creative soundblaster live platinum 5.1


Are you using the above card as your IEEE1394 capture device, AIUI many
'Creative' cards that have on-board 1394 ports have problem with video
capture.

Might be worth trying another IEEE1394 card - oh and make sure it is the /
second / PCI slot down from the AGP slot (if fitted) and not the first,
which AIUI should be left free.

you might want to try it with only the s-video cable connected, remove the
phono cable (red white) from the advc100.

try connecting via the three phono cable inputs on the advc100

is the vcr scart an output port?

"Norcat" wrote in message
...
First of all I'm a total newbie at capturing as you will soon seen
I would like to be able to capture from my vcr to my pc.
I've received a advc 100 today and I have conected it to a firewire
card in my pc.
I have conected my vcr to it via a scart in the vcr to a s-video and a
l&r audio in conections (red& white) these are all in the front panel
of the advc.
The switches on the bottom are all off except switch 1 which is set to
pal on.
The blue light on the front is on analog-in
I have tried to capture using Premiere Pro by playing a video and then
going to file/capture I don't see a preview (dont know if I should or
not) and when I press record and then stop after a while it says
"recorder captured no frames"
I've put a screen grab of the settings at the folowing site
http://www.geocities.com/stormcrowuk/
Any advice would be greatly appreciated I have also tried studio 8 but
no luck there either.

AMD 2400+
768 DDR 2100
Radeon 9500 pro
maxtor 120gb 7200
western digital 80gb 7200
ibm 60gb 7200
creative soundblaster live platinum 5.1


Thanks

Remove the obvious


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"Graham Jackman" wrote in message
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Try and find some video footage with a rectangle on it ie. a message box
etc. and measure the aspect ratio ( ie. divide the length by the width ) ,
capture the footage using the canopus then measuring the aspect ratio of
that on the pc screen . Note : the problem only occurs when playing on the
pc screen and not when viewing back on a television .

In non of the reviews I've seen for the ADVC100 has anyone mentioned this
problem (both state side or UK) !


I assumed it was something to do with capturing PAL but don't know for
sure
. Like I say I can cure the problem by viewing using zoomplayer .


What are program are you using to capture via your 1394 ?

In article , Jerry.
writes

In non of the reviews I've seen for the ADVC100 has anyone mentioned this
problem (both state side or UK) !

Is it because PC pixels are square and TV ones are not? It will be fine
once it is sent back to the TV again.
--
Keith Laws

What's my solution?

.....NOISE POLLUTION

I got my ADVC 100 back in October & had a few problems getting it going . My
source is from the scart out from a video recorder and using the yellow
"video in" and the left & right audio connections on the Canopus . The
problem in the end it turned out to be the switch on the scart out
connection which should have been switched to IN rather than OUT apparently
.. This made no sense to me but it worked .

Is your PC a Dell ? During my search for a solution there was some reference
that some software on the Dell computors conflicts with the Canopus .

Occasionally I have to disable & re-enable the firewire port through
"control panel / system" to get it to work which isn't ideal but the quality
of the captured footage more than makes up for the inconvenience

The aspect ratio of the captured footage from the Canopus is incorrect too
( with mine anyway using PAL ) . To get around the problem I'm using
zoomplayer which allows you to specify your own aspect ration to overcome
this .

Hope this helps & good luck with getting it to work .

Graham .

"Norcat" wrote in message
...
First of all I'm a total newbie at capturing as you will soon seen
I would like to be able to capture from my vcr to my pc.
I've received a advc 100 today and I have conected it to a firewire
card in my pc.
I have conected my vcr to it via a scart in the vcr to a s-video and a
l&r audio in conections (red& white) these are all in the front panel
of the advc.
The switches on the bottom are all off except switch 1 which is set to
pal on.
The blue light on the front is on analog-in
I have tried to capture using Premiere Pro by playing a video and then
going to file/capture I don't see a preview (dont know if I should or
not) and when I press record and then stop after a while it says
"recorder captured no frames"
I've put a screen grab of the settings at the folowing site
http://www.geocities.com/stormcrowuk/
Any advice would be greatly appreciated I have also tried studio 8 but
no luck there either.

AMD 2400+
768 DDR 2100
Radeon 9500 pro
maxtor 120gb 7200
western digital 80gb 7200
ibm 60gb 7200
creative soundblaster live platinum 5.1


Thanks

Remove the obvious

I've just read on rec.video.desktop that you got the Canopus working , well
done.

Do you have the aspect ratio problem too ( ie. the footage appears to be
stretched vertically ) or is it just me ? I'm using zoomplayer with an
custom aspect ratio of 1.4 : 1 to overcome this .

Graham .

Try and find some video footage with a rectangle on it ie. a message box
etc. and measure the aspect ratio ( ie. divide the length by the width ) ,
capture the footage using the canopus then measuring the aspect ratio of
that on the pc screen . Note : the problem only occurs when playing on the
pc screen and not when viewing back on a television .

I assumed it was something to do with capturing PAL but don't know for sure
.. Like I say I can cure the problem by viewing using zoomplayer .

Graham .

"Norcat" wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:50:42 -0800, "Graham Jackman"
wrote:

I've just read on rec.video.desktop that you got the Canopus working ,
well
done.

Do you have the aspect ratio problem too ( ie. the footage appears to be
stretched vertically ) or is it just me ? I'm using zoomplayer with an
custom aspect ratio of 1.4 : 1 to overcome this .

Graham .

Hi Graham
I've just finished using Premiere Pro to capture The Office xmas
episodes from my vcr and they appear to be ok, no problem with the
aspect ratio that I can see anyway.
The picture appears to be a little darker than the original but that
could be because it was recorded on a different vcr, I'm going to
attempt to lighten it tonight with Premiere.

"Keith Laws" wrote in message
...
In article , Jerry.
writes

In non of the reviews I've seen for the ADVC100 has anyone mentioned this
problem (both state side or UK) !

Is it because PC pixels are square and TV ones are not? It will be fine
once it is sent back to the TV again.
--

Could it be, is this another case of looking good / crap on the computer
monitor and looking crap / good on a production monitor or TV screen ?
IYSWIM

are you capturing pal footage to editor setup in pal format?

could it be the monitor settings you're using?

i have had no difficulty with mine with most editor apps.

Paul
"Jerry." wrote in message
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"Keith Laws" wrote in message
...
In article , Jerry.
writes

In non of the reviews I've seen for the ADVC100 has anyone mentioned
this
problem (both state side or UK) !

Is it because PC pixels are square and TV ones are not? It will be fine
once it is sent back to the TV again.
--

Could it be, is this another case of looking good / crap on the computer
monitor and looking crap / good on a production monitor or TV screen ?
IYSWIM