Here's the deal. I have lots of early DVD's I burned without much or any editing just to get them off of video tape before the tapes broke.
I didn't want to tie up a camera or PC for a long time to go digial to analog then back again, so instead I found this method faster and effective.
1. get a dubbing VCR/DVD player. I picked up a Zenith XBV442 for just under $100 at my local Circuity City, can be found for as low as $75 or so on the web. The nice thing is you get one button dubbing. Simply put a blank VHS tape in one side of this player and the DVD you want to copy in the other and just press the front panel copy button. That's it!
2. Once you have the VHS copy, rewind, then set up the Canopus with firewire to your PC and the VHS/DVD player as composite out. That's not a typo. You don't want to use "S" video or component because both those signals already have the luminance (Y) and chrominance (C) seperated and you want the Canopus A/D converter to use its circuity to seperate Y and C and thereby remove video noise which it does rather well, results depend on source material.
As a bonus the ADVC300 also can help with Black expansion and the dreaded whiteout (where whites are too hot). While Vegas can help with these things too, it seems in the limited tests I've done so far it does it much better.
Summary
While you are going from digital to analog and then back to digital from analog the benefit of the noise reduction more than offsets that issue in what I've seen so far.
I didn't want to tie up a camera or PC for a long time to go digial to analog then back again, so instead I found this method faster and effective.
1. get a dubbing VCR/DVD player. I picked up a Zenith XBV442 for just under $100 at my local Circuity City, can be found for as low as $75 or so on the web. The nice thing is you get one button dubbing. Simply put a blank VHS tape in one side of this player and the DVD you want to copy in the other and just press the front panel copy button. That's it!
2. Once you have the VHS copy, rewind, then set up the Canopus with firewire to your PC and the VHS/DVD player as composite out. That's not a typo. You don't want to use "S" video or component because both those signals already have the luminance (Y) and chrominance (C) seperated and you want the Canopus A/D converter to use its circuity to seperate Y and C and thereby remove video noise which it does rather well, results depend on source material.
As a bonus the ADVC300 also can help with Black expansion and the dreaded whiteout (where whites are too hot). While Vegas can help with these things too, it seems in the limited tests I've done so far it does it much better.
Summary
While you are going from digital to analog and then back to digital from analog the benefit of the noise reduction more than offsets that issue in what I've seen so far.