DVHS - capturing and printing

r0adawg wrote on 5/23/2005, 1:16 PM

Hi,
I just picked up a jvc hm-dh40000u unit. overall I would say its a good unit... I've downloaded the trial version of vegas 6. this version sees the jvc unit... but I can not capture or print to it.... I read somewhere that the 30000 (30k) unit works...

I'm wondering if any one out there has this unit and has got it to work???

TIA
r0adawg

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JJKizak wrote on 5/23/2005, 2:32 PM

I have the 4000 and it does work. However I believe that the trial version of V6 will not capture and print DVHS.

JJK

r0adawg wrote on 5/26/2005, 4:16 AM

does it only work with dvhs media??? or can you also pull old clips from vhs tapes as well???

r0adawg

JJKizak wrote on 5/26/2005, 5:45 AM

Yes, it will operate D-VHS, S-VHS, VHS, VHS-ET, and VHS-C.
Its all in your manual. There is also a switch to switch it manually or it will switch automatically. It will only do HDV through the "I" link and it will only allow capturing in the 720P mode.

JJK

VMP wrote on 6/15/2005, 2:58 PM

I am really interested in the ' JVC DVHS HM-DH40000U Player' !!
Is it also possible to print a 5.1 DD soundtrack onto the recorder along with the HD video footage? If so my wish would finally come true!: Playing (Projecting) HD video with 5.1 audio' ;-)).

I have vegas 5.

Because you cant (import) playback a renderd ac3 file with vegas.

I guess the steps would be,

1. Make 5 audio tracks in vegas.
2. Pan track 1 to left, track 2 to right, track 3 to centre, 4 to Rsurround 5 to L surround e.t.c.
3. Insert th the correct (mono) audio files to separate tracks.
4. Then print to tape??

I guess not , because print tot tape option is "DV PCM Stereo only' ! ;-((

So I guess wait for Blue ray or HDDVD?? and make the HD+5.1 movie with DVD Architect 5 ;-)

Thanks for any reply

JJKizak wrote on 6/15/2005, 4:45 PM

Check out the MY-HD 130 card, digitalconnection.com. It might do what you want. Not sure if its stereo AC3 or 5.1 PTT but it does send it out as 5.1 to a 5.1 amplifier.
John Cline is the expert on this card so you might contact him and I believe he also has a 4000U.

JJK

JLK wrote on 6/15/2005, 6:45 PM

I reviewed the specs on this at B&H and it is impressive. I've also been considering a Canopus ADVC300 for converting old VHS tapes to DV, and connecting a good quality external video monitor. This seems to be a viable and less expensive alternative. Does anyone know if this unit will function in a similar way to the ADVC300 or ADVC110, especially regarding passthru from the PC Firewire out into the JVC unit, and out the SVideo connector to a video Monitor?