Hi All, Anyone used Canopus ADVC? I need your advice please. I am looking to convert commercially released VHS to DVD because they will never be released on DVD commercially. The VHS has black and white images in mono sound featuring 1920s and 1930s films. The tapes themselves are 10 years old and are in very good, almost excellent, condition. GIVEN THE ABOVE INFORMATION, will an ADVC 300 (with it's image editing capabilities) improve anything? Or or should I just go for the ADVC 100 and do a straight transfer? Refer... http://www.canopus.us/US/products/ADVC_selection_guide/pm_advc_selection.asp (just wait a few seconds for the annoying ad to disappear, sorry) Also, do all Canopus ADVCs remove macrovision? Thanks for all help.
Hi, The ADVC-300 has Built in Hardware Noise Filters and Image Stabilizers which will give you an Improved Capture quality over say the ADVC-100 or ADVC-110 but if you have a Good Video editor with a Good Variety of Filters you can Clean up the Image after Captureing but this would also Take up a Lot more Time in Processing the Video .... Actually a Lot of the Filtering Can be Done when encodeing the Captured Files to Mpeg-2/DVD if you use a Good encoder that Has a Wide Variety of Filters Like Tmpgenc or you could Learn How to use AVISynth and use it to Frameserve and Add Filters to Clean up the Image But AVISynth is Very Difficult to learn at First...You could also use Virtual-Dub to Frameserve and add filters which is a Lot easier to use but it can only Frameserve to a small number of Encoders.... So basicly the ADVC-300 has the Advantage of Haveing it"s own Built in Hardware Based Video Filters which will clean up a Lot of that Noise that is Prominent in old Tapes and On VHS In General which will Help Improve the quality Especially with the Oldest tapes... If your Tapes are in Very good Contition and you have a Good Quality VCR to play them on then you Might be better off getting the ADVC-100/110 and do any Needed filtering after Captureing and you can spend the saved money on some Good Video Capture/Editing,DVD Authoring and Encodeing software.... As Far as I know all 3 of the ADVC-100/110/300 units have a Trick for Dissableing the Macrovision Detection and as far as I know they all do it the same way...If you need Instructions on how to do it I think they have been posted a few Times on the Site but if you need them I can probably track them down for you...... Cheers
