ADS Video Xpress

murphy wrote on 9/23/2005, 9:25 AM

I have been capturing some VHS-Tapes with ADS Video Express which is an analog video converter via usb2.
The captore goes fine to the hard drive but when I try to open them with Vegas 5 It only opens the audio tracks.. I wasn't able to capture with Vegas because it didn't recognize the convertor.and had to capture using Ulead video studio.that comes with the convertor
The files open and play no problem in WMP.

I was hoping someone here may have used this convertor and would have some ideas. Appreciate any suggestions.

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Rogueone wrote on 9/23/2005, 10:01 AM

I did a basic search on Google for that unit, which directed me to Amazon.com. Reading the specs on the unit, it seems to be recording either into MPEG-1 or MPEG-2. Do you know which format it's storing on your hard drive? If it's saving it as an MPEG file, perhaps Vegas doesn't like the encoding format.

I use a Canopus ADVC-100 for my analog/digital transfer. I still use Vegas 4, and the vidcap is able to use the ADVC for recording into DV AVI

murphy wrote on 9/23/2005, 10:28 AM

Thanks Rogueone for the response. I checked the capture options and I have it set to capture as an .avi format.and it shows it captures without compression. I should have went for the Canopus product as I'm aware of the it's reputation but I went the cheap way instead........

ScottW wrote on 9/23/2005, 11:40 AM

AVI is just a wrapper - it could contain just about anything, and it seems unlikely that it's actually capturing without compression, otherwise you'd have very large files. Download a copy of Gspot and it will tell you what's actually in the AVI.

--Scott

murphy wrote on 9/26/2005, 8:11 AM

Thanks for the tip Scott!

I Downloaded Gspot and under codec it says YUY2 and under name it says YUV and under stat it says no codec required.
I changed the video format in Vegas "video device" in options to Sony YUV Codec but I still have the same issue it won't open in Vegas. Is there a way to open this file within Vegas?
Thanks again