I am using my new ADVC-110 for the very first time and need some help. I am a beginner when it comes to video capture.
I want to transfer all my Hi8 analog camcorder footage to my PC so that I can make DVD's of it all. After transfering the first tape, I noticed that I had 39 dropped frames and 54 inserted frames over the whole 2 hour tape. When I played the resulting .avi file in Windows Media Player, the audio and video were out-of-sync by several seconds. I felt as though I were watching a cheap Japanese Kung Fu movie.
After all the research I had done on the internet, I felt that dropped frames and out-of-sync video were a thing of the past if I bought the Canopus ADVC-110. What am I doing wrong? Should I expect 0 dropped frames?
I used VirtualDub to handle the transfer. My PC is a Dell 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB of RAM, and the hard drive is 400 GB with most of it free space. I used an S-Video cable and the white/red audio cable going into the front of the Canopus unit while the firewire cable was attached to the rear of the Canopus unit going into the PC. The "Analog In" light was on, and I was not using an external power supply for the Canopus unit. I did not have the preview feature of VirtualDub going at the time nor was I doing anything else on the computer.
Any help will be appreciated.
I want to transfer all my Hi8 analog camcorder footage to my PC so that I can make DVD's of it all. After transfering the first tape, I noticed that I had 39 dropped frames and 54 inserted frames over the whole 2 hour tape. When I played the resulting .avi file in Windows Media Player, the audio and video were out-of-sync by several seconds. I felt as though I were watching a cheap Japanese Kung Fu movie.
After all the research I had done on the internet, I felt that dropped frames and out-of-sync video were a thing of the past if I bought the Canopus ADVC-110. What am I doing wrong? Should I expect 0 dropped frames?
I used VirtualDub to handle the transfer. My PC is a Dell 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB of RAM, and the hard drive is 400 GB with most of it free space. I used an S-Video cable and the white/red audio cable going into the front of the Canopus unit while the firewire cable was attached to the rear of the Canopus unit going into the PC. The "Analog In" light was on, and I was not using an external power supply for the Canopus unit. I did not have the preview feature of VirtualDub going at the time nor was I doing anything else on the computer.
Any help will be appreciated.
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