AD Converter issue solved by recovery/formatt
mrchroma
wrote on 1/4/2005, 9:31 PM
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cbrillow
wrote on 1/5/2005, 6:24 AM
I keep running into you....
My friend who had the faulty 1394 interface that blew up our equipment, also purchased the Canopus ADVC-100, and has used it successfully ever since. However, rather than using the analog inputs, he has his Canopus box permanently connected to his computer's 1394 and uses the 4-pin 1394 input on the Canopus. This permits sendind DV from directly the camera, in lieu of the A/D converted version provided by the box. And it keeps the computer interface's power out of the equation, because the camcorder is connected to Canopus via 4-pin to 4-pin cabling.
He suggests that, if you try this, to make sure that you check the settings on the Canopus, because it can be used as both a DV input & output device, and isn't sophisticated enough to auto-detect the direction, as is the more expensive ADVC-300.
My friend who had the faulty 1394 interface that blew up our equipment, also purchased the Canopus ADVC-100, and has used it successfully ever since. However, rather than using the analog inputs, he has his Canopus box permanently connected to his computer's 1394 and uses the 4-pin 1394 input on the Canopus. This permits sendind DV from directly the camera, in lieu of the A/D converted version provided by the box. And it keeps the computer interface's power out of the equation, because the camcorder is connected to Canopus via 4-pin to 4-pin cabling.
He suggests that, if you try this, to make sure that you check the settings on the Canopus, because it can be used as both a DV input & output device, and isn't sophisticated enough to auto-detect the direction, as is the more expensive ADVC-300.
mrchroma
wrote on 1/7/2005, 9:00 PM
To cbrillow: Someone blew-up your equipment?! Thank you for your response. I performed a system formatt/recovery on my Sony vaio pc and fortunately this eliminated the problem and my Canopus converter is up and running.