So near, yet so far!

organism_seven wrote on 1/23/2003, 4:30 PM
Hi,

I have resisted posting this here for months as I really thought that I would be able to solve what should be a simple problem. Wrong!!

I have a Canopus ADVC-100 connected to my PC.
Captures video in perfectly.
Great device, would recommend it to anyone.
But the manual is really poor. Very, very basic.

I cannot figure out how to use it to "preview on external monitor" in Vegas.
It is driving me mad.

I have set it up correctly for Vegas to use because it tells me so in Preferences/Video device.

"This device supports recompression
Hot pluggable device
Device connected"

So far so good.

But I cannot figure out how to "cable up correctly".
On the back of the ADVC-100 are Audio and Video Out Ports.
So I plug in the cables here and hook the other end up to the Scart socket of my TV, which has an adapter on to accept the Left/Right Audio and Video Cables.
There is also a switch on top to flick the signal from video in/out.

I have tried plugging in each video port on the ADVC-100 front and back.
I have selected Digital-In and Analog-In.
I have tried using the S-Video ports.

I have flicked the signal switch on the scart adaptor back and forth with
every configuration I've tried.

Not a flicker!
Can anyone help?
Or can anyone point me to somewhere that has a diagram on how to correctly hook up the cables using the ADVC-100.

Any help appreciated.

Regards
Organism Seven



Comments

seeker wrote on 1/23/2003, 4:51 PM
Org,

I am no expert on this, and don't have an ADVC100, but there are several ADVC100 users hereabouts, so I have no doubt that you will get an authoritative answer soon.

But I do have a question about that "Scart socket" on your TV. What is that? My TV uses conventional yellow, white, red RCA AV connectors, with no adapter or switch involved. I think the problem could be at your TV. Do you have its channel set at Line? For most TVs that would be Channel 1. Some might use a Channel 0 for that.

-- Seeker --
Grazie wrote on 1/23/2003, 4:55 PM
SCART is a European thing - don't ask. It's it's . . . well . . . weird! Nasty big plug that is difficult to locate when you're fiddling about the back of a TV. AND if you are really lucky, it will, literally, come apart at the seams - It's got lots of pins - nasty thing! Put once tamed, and left alone you can forget about it.

Grazie
seeker wrote on 1/23/2003, 4:59 PM
Grazie,

I got a real chuckle out of your description of the SCART. Sounds like the name "fits it."

-- Seeker --
SonyEPM wrote on 1/23/2003, 5:05 PM
Are you working with a PAL monitor? Is the ADVC set to PAL output? Is the Vegas project set to PAL DV?
bdunn wrote on 1/23/2003, 5:16 PM
If you are in PAL land, switch 1 on the bottom of the unit should be set to 'ON'.
I'm no expert, but I'm using the Audio and Video Out jacks on the back of the unit, connecting to the inputs on a VHS deck and out of the VHS deck to a TV. To preview on the TV i set the unit should to 'Digital In' Mode for playback from the PC.
Hope this helps.
HeeHee wrote on 1/23/2003, 5:23 PM
Org7,

I use an ADVC-100 to do preview on Ext monitor, however I am not using a TV. What I use is an old Comadore64 Monitor which is basically a TV without a tuner. Don't worry about hooking up audio since preview from Vegas does not output audio.

1) Do all hookups while the canopus is OFF.
2) Hookup the S-video or Composite RCA jack from the corresponding output on the ADVC-100 to the input of the TV.
3) Obviously, you need the firewire cable attached to either 1394 port on the ADVC-100 to the 1394 on the PC.
4) Turn on the Canopus and switch to digital mode.
5) Like Sonic EPM said, make sure it is set for PAL in and out.
6) Like Seeker said, make sure you have your TV set to line in or Aux (They name them differently on different brands).
7) In Vegas, click the Preview on Ext Monitor button by preview and it should work.

If it does not work now, then either you have a bad ADVC-100 or that scart thing is causing the problem. One thing you could try is to put a VCR in between the ADVC-100 and the TV. Set the VCR to Line in and the TV to Channel 3 or whatever the line-in setting is. Hook the TV up to the VCR with coax. This, I would hope, rules out the scart.