Re: A Step Backwards????
- From: ritpg <ritpg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:42:01 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 6, 5:33 pm, da...@xxxxxxxxx (Dave Martindale) wrote:
ritpg<ri...@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Three years ago I bought a DAC-100 external video capture device to
mate (firewire) with a then 3 year old Dell desktop running XP Pro for
the purpose of digitizing old VHS tapes. I must say the DAC-100
worked quite well (virtually no dropped frames) although the Cyberlink
PowerDirector software was so painful to use I stopped before I could
finish capturing and editing all the tapes. I recently purchased a
Systemax Intel quad (Q6600) desktop running XP Pro and a copy of Adobe
Premier Elements 3.0. I've been using this new system to capture
video from my DV camcorder with pretty good success. When I decided
to connect the DAC-100 to the new system to resume capturing the old
VHS video, the results were extremely poor. The PC kept losing and
regaining the DAC-100 and when it could maintain the connection the
video capture was pathetic (more than half the frames were getting
dropped).
Does your camcorder have a video passthrough mode, which allows it to
digitize an analog video input and output DV (instead of digitizing the
CCD output)? If so, try using it instead of the DAC-100. Does that
work without dropped frames? It should.
If this works, then the problem is somewhere in the DAC-100 or any
hardware-specific drivers that you're using with it. On the other hand,
if you get dropped frames with the camcorder, you've probably got a
system problem.
Your system should be fine. I just finished capturing about 7 hours of
DV using a system based on an E6850 running XP Pro under Premiere Pro
1.5. There were no dropped frames at all, and the CPU usage stayed
quite for capture plus onscreen preview. Your Q6600 should be an even
more capable machine and have absolutely no trouble keeping up. DV is
only a few MB/sec of data.
I hate to spend another $200 for a new
video capture device when there's no way to know if will work any
better with this new PC.
If the camcorder works well in passthrough mode, you might be able to
use it and ignore the DAC-100.
Dave
Dave, I can't begin to thank you enough for your suggestion that I use
the Canon ZR200 camcorder I have to do the A/D conversion. I works so
much better than the DAC-100 ever did. I can actually manipulate the
VCR (FF, REW) while capturing video and more often than not, PE 3.0
keep right on chugging. It does sometimes get confused on transitions
from one VHS clip to another. But this is so much better I can't
beleive it.
You just go into the Canon menu and turn on A/D conversion. Of course
I've got to remember to turn it off when I use the camcorder as a
camcorder. And I had to turn off controls in PE 3.0 to get it to
work. I had already turned controls off to talk to the DAC-100.
I was actually considering buying a Time Base Corrector that someone
else recommended. Chalk another one up to my friends on Usenet. I'll
never understand why folks I tell about Usenet don't use it. It has
saved me so much time, money and aggravation over the years.
Anybody want to buy a used DAC-100?
Thanks.. Merry Christmas to you, Dave, and I hope you have a wonderful
holiday season.
.
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