Analog Capture Quality -- ADVC-100 and DC10+

musicvid10 wrote on 1/14/2003, 2:24 PM

Has anyone here done head-to-head tests of DV from the ADVC-100 and MJPEG from DC10+? Is there a clear winner?

My reason for asking: I have had a DC10+ with v1.06 VFW drivers on 98SE for many years and I am slowly making the transition to digital and newer OS. If I can get as good a quality with the Canopus converter, I'll scrap the Pinnacle when I upgrade, but I'll still be doing a lot of analog capturing.

Comments

HeeHee wrote on 1/15/2003, 3:13 PM

I have done some caparisons with the ADVC-100 and ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro.

Advantages to the ADVC-100 over the AIW.
1) Smaller file (Only decent quality video I got from AIW required uncompressed avi files which are huge)
2) No quality loss from source (Quality seamed to degrade a generation thru AIW)
3) Audio stays synchronized with the video (Horrible problem with AIW on longer clips)
4) No audio clipping (My AIW driver in XP was buggy and caused lots of crackle, snapple, pops)
5) No dropped frames (Always had dropped frames during the begining of a capture with the AIW)
6) Can print to tape and preview to external monitor with it (Not a feature for any analog capture card AFAIK)