"no signal" from pinnacle video capture

i used my pinnacle video capture to digitize VHS footage last year. havent used it since until today, and now it doesnt seem to be picking up the signal. i looked for updates, nothing...wondering if maybe the newest SL update could be the problem??? ive restarted and done the exact same procedure i did last year but to no avail. any advice? thanks

You should probably contact Pinnacle.

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Had some old movies from reel to reel on a vcr. i converted these to mp4 format using pinnacle video capture, quality was not great but it was decent enough on my computer. when i placed these on my ipad it was much worse and very choppy. i have handbra

had some old movies from reel to reel on a vcr. i converted these to mp4 format using pinnacle video capture, quality was not great but it was decent enough on my computer. when i placed these on my ipad it was much worse and very choppy. i have handbrake and thought i could maybe change the movie so i could play it on ipad but dont know what dimensions or framerate etc. currently the movie on the computer is in 640 x 480 mpeg 4 aac. thanks derek

Jon,
What Julianne said at first about re-linking made perfect sense and I followed it easily, had actually already been there. But in my situation now, it didn't have any effect. The directory of folders which had already been added were still just as they were, and the outstanding balance are not in the desired position. And the folders which had been brought in earlier today when I clicked "synchronize folder", were still missing all the metadata.
Maybe this means I need to start over, and I'm fine about doing that that, but I don't know what it takes to accomplish that. I'm concerned now that any changes I make out of guesswork could only make the problem harder to resolve. It just feels to me like something I did at the beginning just wasn't right, and now it's a tangle.
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After talking with a bunch of salesmen (considering getting a DvD writer), I took the advice of someone in the Apple Store and bought a Pinnacle Video Capture for Mac to copy my laserdiscs. It was $100 before tax, and didn't do stuff I don't plan on doing anyway. I did spend another $25 to get an S-video cable.
I installed the software and connected it up to my LD. I started capturing the movie, and selected S-Video (although in the small window they showed, I didn't see any difference between that and video out. I selected a max time from a limited selection, and let it record.
After a while, I went downstairs and saw that the audio and video were not synchronized at all. I let it continue.
After a while I came down again, and the movie was finished, so I stopped it. I found the MP4 - it was in the iTunes movie directory, and played it in iTunes. I fast-forwarded it to near the end, the voice and video were way off-set.
I haven't tried burning this yet.
Quicktime player doesn't think this is a valid movie file. I selected "open with" and "other" and the recommended applications had iMovie greyed out.
Why in the world would the audio and video record at different speeds?
Do I have to buy software to edit the movie down to the correct size?
My Mac has:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version: 1.21f4
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The audio drifted out of sync because the Dazzle doesn't support locked audio. For short videos (say, under 10 minutes) this won't be very noticeable but when you capture longer videos it becomes progressively worse over time.
What do you want to do with your Laserdisk copies? Watch them on your iPod? Edit and/or burn to DVD?
A device like the Canopus ADVC-110 will do the video/audio conversion properly, keeping the audio and video in sync regardless of the length of your video. It converts to DV, not to MP4, and you would use it with iMovie or Final Cut (not iTunes). However you can export your video from iMovie or Final Cut to iPod/AppleTV formats.
The Dazzle device will not work directly with iMovie or Final Cut.
ps. If all you really want to do is transfer your Laserdisc videos to DVDs, it will be a whole lot faster & simpler to get a DVD player/recorder that has analog inputs and record directly to DVDs. There are many brands & models to choose from and many good ones are as inexpensive as the $100 you spent on the Pinnacle converter.

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Most Mac compatible capture devices I have looked at do not make this easy to figure out, and so far the few devices I have found require their own software to do the entire capture process. Does anybody have any experience or recommendations?

Hi,
A DV Converter that is Firewire to the computer is going to be preferable for iChat.
iChat can accept USB 1.1 input from a device with driver.
We tend to be talking USB 1.1 web cams here as many Converters don't do Drivers for USB in a form iChat can "See"
iChat can accept USB 2.0 UVC complaint Camera input as the Driver has been there since 10.4.9 (and working with iChat).
Again you don't tend to get Converters or Camcorders with UVC Compliant software - only web cams.
I have a Hollywood Dazzle but unfortunately it no longer is fully functional. (it works only as a Firewire Hub at present)
Pinnacle bought out Dazzle but do not support the older products and don't make anything Firewire capable themselves.
The Hollywood Dazzle had two Firewire ports and could in fact allow a camera connect by RCA connectors to be outputted to two computers.
It could also of course take Firewire from the computer back out over the RCA ones to a TV so you could see what iMovie was producing.
iChat will accept Firewire.
That means the Original External iSight (there were three models but only mounts really changed)
Firewire CamCorders - and as has been mentioned some will act as Analogue to DV converters
There were more Firewire Web cams at one stage but only the Fire-i seems to have survived.
If I was looking to buy another converter then a Canopus would be my choice. (Preferably something that could replicate what the Dazzle would do).
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Im trying to share video on adobe connect with "elgato video capture" usb plug in capture card, connected with a sony pmw-ex3 professional camera on a Lenovo windows 8 laptop, but the video window appears on black.
I have tried to change the resolution from low to high on the program, but it doesnt works. i´ve tried to change from panoramic to normal view size, and still dont work.
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