ADC Pyro A/V Link

impact wrote on 3/22/2004, 5:46 AM

Is anyone out there having success with the ADC Pyro A/V Link?? I have used it successfully when printing to tape, but frankly going through my DV
camcorder works just as well. I am unable to run analog signals (audio or video) through it and get into my laptop via firewire. Help!

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/22/2004, 5:58 AM

No, no one is successfully using the AV Link to capture analog. This is a know problem and ADS Tech is, “aware of the problem and has their best people working on it”. ;-) I suggest you call them at 800-888-5244 and ask to speak to Boukee (pronounced Bo-Ke where the ‘o’ and ‘e’ are long) and let her know that you are having the same problem John Rofrano (that’s me) and others are having and want to be put on the list of people requiring a new unit that fixes this. They have reproduced the problem in the lab and are working with the chip manufacturer on a fix. This means the fix will require you to send your unit back to them. I call them about every two weeks to see how they’re doing and make sure they know I’m not going away any time soon. Please add your voice to the cry. Thanks,

~jr

logiquem wrote on 3/22/2004, 6:06 AM

Make sure you are in analog input mode.

Btw, i had one in the past months and returned it. Noisy A/D conversion, poor NLE response, sync problems, etc.

You should be better served with a Canopus unit or a cheap Canon camcorder IMHO.

impact wrote on 3/22/2004, 8:22 AM

Thanks Johnnyroy,
I will make that call and support this cause in any way!

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/22/2004, 9:20 AM

> Make sure you are in analog input mode.

OK, so I assumed you had a signal but it was dropping frames. When you said print-to-tape I assumed it was analog tape but in rereading you post I see its DV tape.(my fault sorry, but I am so pissed at ADS Tech right now that I jumped the gun) I can print-to-tape via analog but not capture reliably.

Yes, by all means you should be getting some signal through. There is a button that puts it into analog mode. Make sure the analog light is on after you press it. The problem I was having was with dropping frames on capturing brand new tapes that had just been recorded with an analog camcorder.

~jr