Analog capture device ?

I need to buy a analog capture device, can anyone recommend one that works well with Adobe premiere elements

If you mean an A-D "bridge," then I'll add a few:
The ADS Pyro gets a lot of high marks, and many here, plus on Muvipix use it. IIRC, the price is about US$150. You might want to survey this forum and also Muvipix for comments on this device.
Canopus offers at least two: the 110 & 300 versions. Were I buying, I'd probably opt for the 300, but it is more expensive. I like the TimeBase correction available. The 100 is about the same price as the ADS unit.
I happen to use a Turtle Beach caputer card and it works well. If I did not already own it, then the Canopus 300 would get my vote.
Good luck,
Hunt

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Analog Capture Devices

Hi
I have this USB Analog / DV capture device called "USB instant VCD".
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=41536 7&Tab=0&NoMapp=0
I was using it on a pc. Plugged it into the Mac and tried to install drivers from the disk but kept getting "error opening movie"
but it was an exe file not a movie.
Im trying to hook up the VCR to the mac to burn sometapes to disk.
why wont it recognise the device? I thought an exe file should self open when you click it?
am I missing something?
best, M/
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

USB transfers data in packets, in bursts of information. For video work, you want the constant stream of Firewire.
FCP will not work with USB cameras or capture devices. It will work with USB hard drives, but it is not recommended.
Take up the other matter with ADS. Perhaps there is a Mac version of their software on their website. Either way, it's not going to interface directly with FCP, but maybe you can get the files on your drive and then import into FCP.
If your question is answered, please mark it as such and award "Helpful" and "Solved" points to those posts which Helped or Solved your problem.

Importing problems (hi 8 camera-capture device-imovie)

i am importing from an old canon es3000 hi-8 (analog) camera, through a miglia "director's cut" capture device, to imovie (via firewire) ... there is fragmented line at the bottom of the frame in imovie during import. will that show up in idvd later? also, the imovie is not seperating the clips, so i end up with one long clip. after about 10 minutes the digital footage in imovie becomes fragmented throughout the frame. does anybody know why this is happening? thanks in advance, R.B.
Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

see the other post
Don't double post Your questions but address right forum.
Yours Bengt W

Video Capture Device

I have a cheapo Capit usb video capture device. It works fine in my Win 7 T61 with only 4gb RAM and a 2.0gh C2D. When I try to use it in the T400, it's not so good. The monitor frame is scrambled when I go to record and the audio and caption is way off. What did I do? These are both set up nearly identically.
T400,, 2.53ghz T9500,8gb ram Windows 7 Home Premium
T61,15.4 T7300, 2gb RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium
14.1 T23, type 2647 9LU, 1.13 PIII, 1gb, XP Pro

Yea I actually have a sony that has analog to digital passthrough. However, i've been using it as a webcam recently and i'm almost convinced that that has something to do with the fact that i've had to send it for repairs recently. I think that having it on for long periods of time without having a tape in it or using it for recording poses a potential risk for head damage. So im a little wary about using it as a bridge to capture hours of analog footage to my computer. So would you know of any other peripherals designed specifically for capturing analog sources on an imac?

Video Capture Devices?

What is a good video capture device for the macbook that I could use to capture video from my video camera(which has no firewire or USB ports on it).

Your camera is a Hi8 and is also known as "analog". I'm an editor.
Since you're camera doesn't have a FireWire port (which is what all capturing is done with), there's no way to capture without an external device, as you may know.
So, I suggest getting the Canopus ADVC-110. I have it and it works flawlessly with FCP (which is what I edit in) and it will work with iMovie also. There is also the Canopus ADVC-55. For both of these adapters, you'll need to hook up the RCA (white, red and yellow) cables to the device, and capture. Your camera should have RCA inputs. These devices are a little expensive, but they work great. No additional software/drivers. It's worth it.
Canopus ADVC-110
Canopus ADVC-55
Similar in price, personally I would get the ADVC-110.
Remember to mark as helpful or solved.
-benny

Proper external capture device recommendations

Hi All,
I need some input. I want to transfer about 25 VHS tapes (home movies) for editing in iMovie08, and burn the final output through iDVD08. Here is the problem. I had many Super 8mm home movies done professionally. The tech guy at the company was great, and he pointed out at the time of placing the order that I DIDN"T want the films put to DVD. He suggested that since I wanted to edit them, and that Mac software is native with Quicktime(MOV) format, that they would transfer them as raw files in MOV format and put them on an external drive, which was shipped to me. Great idea, and no issues. He also explained that MOV is frame by frame, not multiple frames like MPEG formats; so quality would be better, and I wouldn't lose quality and time re-encoding. So it stands to reason that I should do the same with the VHS tapes as well. I cannot seem to find an external capture device that does this. Dazzle and Canopus seem to go to MP4. Can someone steer me to the right product? I will be doing this from VCR to external capture to iMac. I DO NOT have a camcorder, so it has to be this way. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi -
You have been fortunate to receive excellent advice.
To convert your analog tapes to DV you will need an external convertor such as:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/462758-REG/ADSTechnologies_API_558_EFS_Pyro_A_V_LinkBidirectional.html
The cost of these devices will probably be in the $150 range, which is not to bad if divided by 25 tapes works out to about $6 a tape. Probably much cheaper than having someone do it for you.
The one piece of advice that is a little suspect is that converting mpeg to a DV or non mpeg format degrades the signal. This is not strictly true, if done correctly.
That is why I would suggest another option is to use this device:
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/videorecorder/
which is less that $100 and then take the files that are created by it and convert them to be edited by using this free application:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
You would then import the files into iMovie after they are converted. I mention this to give you an option.
My biggest concern is that you back up your disc drives! After loading in all this footage, you would not want a drive failure to make you redo all that work!
Good luck!

External video capture devices?

I'll be getting a Macbook Pro soon and I have a older Sony camcorder that doesn't have USB or fire wire. It's only output is composite and L R audio. Can anyone recommend a good external video capture device that works with a mac and Final Cut Express?

Hello,
I'm currently using a Canopus ADVC110 analog/digital converter with no problems with Final Cut Express 4.0.
You can see more details about the device on http://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC110/index.php
I bought my new one on eBay and paid almost half the current price.
Regards,
Armando.

Can`t detect ATI AVSTREAM ANALOG CAPTURE

I got a problem when i try to detect a TV Tunner Card: ATI AVSTREAM ANALOG CAPTURE with jmf. I got this message:
" the dispositive can`t be use when another applicacion like video, DVD conference, video edition o webtv for windows
is using.If WebTv has been instaled and is running in your sistem, make a pause at video datos services of webtv."
The card works fine with movie maker so it `s not problem of the card, and i don`t have another aplicacion that is using the card.

Miguel Angel wrote:
well actually the message is in spanish and is this:I don't think JMF would spit out Spanish... which makes me think this isn't a JMF message.
Is your ATI card VFW or DirectShow compliant?
so if you understand spanish maybe you can help me.The device cannot be used when in use by this or another video application, like DVD, video conference, WebTV for Windows. In order to use this device with the current application, close the other application that is using it. If WebTV is installed and running, pause the "WebTV Video Data Service" in the taskbar by right-clicking its icon and selecting "Pause Service"...

Capture Device Advice

I did a forum search but to no avail and of course, this may not be the best forum for this to be asked but I do so anyhow knowing there are some enlightened souls here who could likely offer me advice.
I'm having trouble keeping my camcorders (Canon ZR Series) up and running in regards to capturing. They work great otherwise, for what we are using them for, but the firewire ports are constantly shorting on us. The repairs are becoming too costly to keep up with as we're having to spend more than the camera is even worth to try and get them working again.
I know there are other options to use for connectivity which would allow us to bypass the firewire connection altogether. Granteed, I'd lose the digital quality but at this point efficiency reigns supreme over quality. I'm looking for recommendations on a couple of things:
1) I've found plenty of easy fixes, such as the Diamond Capture Device and a few other "one touch" solutions that exist. The problem I've had with Diamond (actually ordered some and then returned them) is that the video being captured was in a much smaller resolution and the image literally had to be stretched to take up the entire screen. Is this normal? Is there a way to capture in analog but not lose extra resolution/generation in doing so? I felt like I was losing twice as much quality as I should have been by stretching the video out.
2) How much am I losing in visual quality by using an component or S-video?
I need a cost-effective solution until I can order new camcorders which wont be until next fall.
Thanks for reading!

>PP ONLY allows for firewire capture
Under Windows, PPro also support
RS-232 and RS-422 serial devices.
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5.1.4 update breaks HDV capture? Unable to Initialize Capture Device

Problem:
Final Cut Pro cannot capture standard 1080i60 HDV footage from Sony FX1 camcorder. FCP reports "Unable to Initialize Capture Device" when the log and capture window is opened. However, the footage CAN be captured in iMovie (which is interesting, and unacceptable). When HDV>DV downconvert option on camcorder is activated, footage CAN be captured as anamorphic SD, so the camcorder and FW do work.
The problem is occuring on a rock-solid FCP system that I use on a regular basis (mainly for SD editing). It has been approx 2 weeks since I last attempted a HDV capture, the system has been working great with SD footage (still does).
Factors that have changed to my knowledge since HDV capture was last functioning properly:
*Added a new external FW drive into regular usage (a different brand than normally used, no issues with it so far).
*Updated FCP to 5.1.3, and then 5.1.4 when that fix came out. All SD captures and work have been fine so far.
Here's what's interesting...I had a copy of the FCP v5.0.4 .app that I had saved an archive of prior to the crossgrade update. Guess what? I can load it up, and it captures HDV without any problems! With that in mind, this looks like an FCP 5.1.4 issue. But I am at a loss on how to proceed further in troubleshooting. Many thanks in advance for any assistance.
Matt Jeppsen
FresHDV.com
---NOTES---
What I have tried:
*Attempted capture with a different Sony FX1 camcorder.
*Swapped firewire cables and system firewire ports.
*Attempted capture with camera FW chained to an external HDD.
*Unplugged all other external firewire devices from the system.
*Trashed FCP prefs using FCP Rescue 5, created new project using Easy Setup (for HDV).
*Tried different variations of FCP A/V settings, tried all the HDV FW device control presets and the HDV AIC capture preset.
*Per instructions at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852 I removed the numbered Quicktime pckg Receipts and re-installed the latest version (7.13). Post-install/reboot, I repaired Disk Prefs and Verified the disk using Disk Util.
*Have also attempted installing QT 7.13 2 and 3 times in a row, also trying disk prefs repair BEFORE the post-install reboot.
Final Cut Pro Audio/Video Settings:
Sequence Preset: HDV-1080i60
Capture Preset: HDV
Device Control Preset: Sony HDV Firewire
Sony HDR-FX1 IN/OUT REC settings:
*VCR HDV/DV: HDV
*COMPONENT: 1080i/480i
*i.LINK CONV: OFF
*TV TYPE: 16:9
*A/V->DV OUT: OFF
System/Software Facts:
*Final Cut Pro 5.1.4
*Quicktime 7.13
*PPC Mac G5 2.7 Dual (2.5GB RAM)
*35GB free on System, 45GB free on internal FCP Scratch disk
Final Cut Pro 5.1.4, G5 DP 2.7 (PPC) Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I think I figured out this vexing problem. I too was having the same issue. Check to see that your Quicktime is newer than 7.1.2. If it isn't you'll have to upgrade it. I only upgraded to 7.1.6 here because I was afraid of going to a really new version. http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime716formac.html. After I upgraded my quicktime, I ran software update and the Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 update appeared. I hoipe this helps.

Unable to Initialize Capture Device

Hi,
I am having a problem importing/capturing HDV video from my JVC HD GR 1 getting "Unable to Initialize Capture Device".
I have been able to capture fine up to this point, finicky some times to be sure, but workable, then in the last few weeks it began getting more and more finicky (wouldn't connect to camera, restart and it works fine), until just the other day it wont connect no matter what I do!
Help?
Ask questions if you need clarification.
Camera: JVC HD GR 1
Tape: Mini DV
Format: HDV
Software: FCP 5.1.4

Unfortunately when both "Capture" and "Device Control" presets are not set to HDV it wont even try to connect and gives me this warning:
"To capture HDV source material, both the Capture and Device Control presets must be configured for HDV; otherwise, to capture in another format, both must not be configured for HDV."
As a side note when my camera was connecting to FCP. FCP would only give me on screen controls half the time.

Unable to initialize capture device and device control in HDV

I shot with a Sony HVR-Z1U/Z1N and am using a Sony HDV 1080i tape deck to digitize.
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro and installed FCP Pro 5 on it. After getting over some time code issues we were chugging along, when on the 4th tape the image on the log and capture screen suddenly dissapeared (I could get audio and could see the image on the tape deck). Well after taking the tape out, checking and rechecking it I popped it back in and ever since then, I have been getting this error mssg "Unable to initialize capture device and device control."
I have tried deleting the preferences and starting from scratch. If I do that, and choose the easy setup with HDV- 1080i60, it gives me this error "Unable to locate the following external devices- HDV (1440 X 1080) 30fps.
I upgraded to FCP 5.1.2 this morning and upgraded the OS to 10.4.7 and QT to 7.1.3 and still no change.
Im at my wits end, Ive been working on this for a whole week now.
Thank you,
Bugs

It has been reported to take more than one attempt to correct the installation but, if properly executed on a machine without other system problems, the QT reinstall process does work. The key element here is you must reinstall QT after you trash the receipts. The process is listed below.
x
To do a full quicktime reinstall.
Go to /library/receipts and delete any files that say Quicktime followed by a number e.g. Quicktime703.pkg
Go to the Apple quicktime site and download the appropriate version of Quicktime to your hard drive.
Run the Quicktime installer.
Repair Disk Permissions for your System Disk (Disk Utility > Select the system disk > Repair Disk Permissions)
Reboot
If this doesn't work, then the problem lies elsewhere:
1. your system - user preferences, firewire ports or other system elements.
2. your equipment - camera/deck/firewire cables.
3. your process - not setting up the software properly or using the software erroneously.
Listed below is a troubleshooting process. Not all steps are appropriate but the general process of isolating the problem is useful.
Troubleshooting Steps for OS X
by Jan Johannsen (Collected from: Apple>User Tips Library>User Tips Contributions forum)
FIRST AID
01 Completely shutdown, wait a 5 minutes, restart
02 Make sure you're not running out of free space on the System volume
03 Check/fix the filesystem using Disk Utility &/or Diskwarrior
04 Repair permissions using Disk Utility
05 Create a new user account, and see if the problem persists there
06 Clear system & user caches
07 Run FCP Rescue
08 Unplug all USB, Firewire devices except Apple mouse
09 Startup in SafeBoot mode, and see if the problem persists there
10 Reset system firmware
MORE SERIOUS TROUBLESHOOTING
11 Reapply the latest combo updater
12 Run the Apple hardware diagnostic CD
13 Check the hard drive for bad blocks
14 Take out 3rd party RAM
15 Unplug 3rd Party PCI cards
16 Reset PMU
17 Archive and reinstall the OS
18 Reinstall the system from scratch
19 Send the machine back to Apple

Detecting Video Capture Devices without Installing JMF

Hi All,
I want to detect the video capture devices, without installing the JMF.
I had included the jmf (windows version) in lib path in netbeans ide. I am able to detect the audio capture device. But unable to detect the video capture devices. But if I install the JMF, I am able to detect the Video Capture devices in My system. Can anyone help me?
Thanks,
Vinoth Kumar.

YES! Please take a look at SIP Communicator project. They have all what u want.
The main idea is copy all .dll files to System or System32 (Please check files which JMF will copy to ur computer and where).
U need to have jmf.jar and sound.jar too ( maybe more) in your computer.
Your program should have DirectSoundAuto.java, JavaSoundAuto.java, JavaSoundDetector.java, JMFInit.java. Those files are in JMStudio source code. They are used to detect all capture devices and register it to JMF, but wait !!! where they will be saved? In order to save information about capture devices which are detected, you should create "jmf.properties" file in the same location with jmf.jar.Therefore, u should modify the JMFInit.java so it can check if the "jmf.properties" exists. If it's not, you have to create it.
Check SIP Communicator at Folder "media" then "device". They have modified those files I mentioned above and created some new files to SC can detect more devices.
Edited by: tamngminh on Sep 16, 2008 9:50 AM

Video capture device bad image/no sound

Hi !!
I bought this "grabby" usb dongle from terratec to record old vhs cassete on my computer, but is doesn't work on linux. (It works ok on win7, so cable-connections problems are excluded)
On vlc I did 'open capture device', choose /dev/video0 for vid, hw:2,0 for sound(tried them all anyway), and PAL/SECAM video standard.
Problem is I have a super crappy video image (on mplayer also), and no sound. The video is colored, I recogize it, but the pixels are huge, it's awfull.
After some research I found that a module named em28xx is supposed to handle this device. I found some forum post here and there about the sound problem, it is addressed with a 3years old patch on em28xx-cards.c (which doesn't exist on my machine, so I couldn't apply it).
Here is dmesg :
[ 8371.430051] em28xx audio device (0ccd:0096): interface 2, class 1
[ 8371.430074] em28xx audio device (0ccd:0096): interface 1, class 1
[ 8371.438360] em28xx: New device TerraTec Electronic GmbH TerraTec Grabby @ 480 Mbps (0ccd:0096, interface 0, class 0)
[ 8371.438363] em28xx: Video interface 0 found
[ 8371.438365] em28xx: DVB interface 0 found
[ 8371.438511] em28xx #0: chip ID is em2860
[ 8371.554008] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 00: 1a eb 67 95 cd 0c 96 00 50 00 11 03 9c 20 6a 32
[ 8371.554020] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 10: 00 00 06 57 0e 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 8371.554029] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 20: 02 00 01 00 f0 10 01 00 00 00 00 00 5b 00 00 00
[ 8371.554039] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 30: 00 00 20 40 20 80 02 20 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 8371.554048] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 8371.554057] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 8371.554067] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 32 03 54 00 65 00
[ 8371.554076] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 70: 72 00 72 00 61 00 54 00 65 00 63 00 20 00 45 00
[ 8371.554086] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 80: 6c 00 65 00 63 00 74 00 72 00 6f 00 6e 00 69 00
[ 8371.554095] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 90: 63 00 20 00 47 00 6d 00 62 00 48 00 20 03 54 00
[ 8371.554104] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom a0: 65 00 72 00 72 00 61 00 54 00 65 00 63 00 20 00
[ 8371.554114] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom b0: 47 00 72 00 61 00 62 00 62 00 79 00 48 00 00 00
[ 8371.554123] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 8371.554133] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 8371.554142] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 8371.554151] em28xx #0: i2c eeprom f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 8371.554163] em28xx #0: EEPROM ID= 0x9567eb1a, EEPROM hash = 0xd3498090
[ 8371.554165] em28xx #0: EEPROM info:
[ 8371.554166] em28xx #0: AC97 audio (5 sample rates)
[ 8371.554167] em28xx #0: 500mA max power
[ 8371.554170] em28xx #0: Table at 0x06, strings=0x209c, 0x326a, 0x0000
[ 8371.554172] em28xx #0: Identified as Terratec Grabby (card=67)
[ 8371.856372] saa7115 4-0025: saa7113 found (1f7113d0e100000) @ 0x4a (em28xx #0)
[ 8372.495384] em28xx #0: Config register raw data: 0x50
[ 8372.515361] em28xx #0: AC97 vendor ID = 0x83847650
[ 8372.525227] em28xx #0: AC97 features = 0x6a90
[ 8372.525231] em28xx #0: Empia 202 AC97 audio processor detected
[ 8372.908213] em28xx #0: v4l2 driver version 0.1.3
[ 8373.760714] em28xx #0: V4L2 video device registered as video0
[ 8373.760718] em28xx #0: V4L2 VBI device registered as vbi0
And lsmod :
[user@OGwncMO ~]$ lsmod | grep em28xx
em28xx 88986 0
tveeprom 13809 1 em28xx
videobuf_vmalloc 4351 1 em28xx
videobuf_core 16231 2 videobuf_vmalloc,em28xx
v4l2_common 5370 2 saa7115,em28xx
videodev 100564 3 saa7115,em28xx,v4l2_common
i2c_core 20508 7 i2c_i801,saa7115,em28xx,nvidia,v4l2_common,tveeprom,videodev
usbcore 147434 10 uas,ath3k,btusb,snd_usb_audio,usb_storage,em28xx,snd_usbmidi_lib,ehci_hcd,usbhid,xhci_hcd
From what I see my guess is that the module supposed to handle this hardware is present but doesn't do its job properly...any help?

Hi again !
Thanks for you tip nomorewindows. The programs tvtime and xawtv worked out of the box concerning video !! xawtv, however, crashes everytime I try to resize the (very) small window. As for tvtime, there is no sound (output is it can't open /dev/mixer so I guess it's fixable, I'll look into it).
I started reading the doc but I didn't found yet if it was possible to record the output with these program...
Concerning the cables, you are right they are not special at all it is standard : there is the triple (yellow=composite video, red/white for audio) cable and a fourth one for video but with inferior quality, I didn't connect it (it's either the yellow or this one for video)

How to connect a video capture device to Satellite M30X 127

I'm going around in circles trying to find a video capture device that will function with a laptop and would be grateful for advice. By way of example, I'm now looking at the 'Canopus ADVC-110', although still looking around (but not Pinnacle, who seem to have a terrible reputation for capture items).
Problems include:
1. Main problem is - many video capture external devices require a 'line-in' to PC for good quality audio transfer. This laptop doesn't have a line in, only the mike and headphone jacks. In addition, I've also tried a few RCA pins in the 3.5mm microphone/headphones jack and they were too small. How to solve the problem of getting audio from vcr to my PC?
2. The ADVC-110 connects to the PC via Firewire (and S-video), but is a SIX-pin type. M30X is a FOUR-pin type. Are there adapters available?
3. Some capture programmes seem to require huge capacity of RAM. Is a laptop going to be suitable to do the job? (I simply want to capture old vhs tapes from vcr to PC, then burn to DVD with Nero 7 or similar).
Thanks in advance!

Hello
You are right! You must use external device for signal transfer to your notebook. I dont know where you have this info but I have good experiences with Pinnacle product. For data transfer I have used USB port.
'Canopus ADVC-110 is not known to me but I dont see any reason why this should not work well. Use delivered software for video capturing and there should not be any problem.
Only thing is that after recording the whole video material must be prepared for burning and unit need a lot of power to do this well und fast. When you buy this and want to use on right way I recommend you to expand RAM to 1GB.
Compatible memory modules for your Satellite M30x are:
PC2700 512MB (PA3312U-1M51)
PC2700 1024MB (PA3313U-1M1G)
Bye

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