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| Canopus ADVC-300 | DV/Firewire DV Converter Analog VideoIn |
Win95? Win98 Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC Linux *based on user reports. |
FireWire | $400 | 8.5/10 20 votes |
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| The ADVC300 is the ultimate bi-directional analog to digital video converter unit for the video enthusiast. Featuring high-quality image enhancement technology including digital noise reduction and image stabilization using Line Time Base Correction (LTBC), ADVC300 instantly cleans, stabilizes and preserves old VHS and Hi8 videos in clean DV format. Supporting Windows and Mac OS, ADVC300 is compatible with all widely used video editing applications including Canopus EDIUS, Final Cut Pro®, Avid Xpress® DV and Adobe® Premiere® Pro.
> Convert VHS, S-VHS and Hi8 analog videotapes to DV and back in one simple step > Ideal for capturing and exporting analog video from leading video editing and DVD authoring applications for Windows and Mac OS > ADVC300 can be used as a stand-alone bi-directional analog / digital video converter without needing a computer > ADVC300 is compatible with all widely used DV and analog cameras and decks. High-quality component video output is ideal for monitoring video using a broadcast monitor |
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I'm using the ADVC-55 and trying to upload a few VHS's both comercial videos and homemade videos cant be uploaded. basically what I'm asking is how can I upload my VHS's with the ADVC 55 on my macbook pro? I dont care what software I use just want to see if it's possible as have some family movies and some classic old hammer horros i want to save. Cheers guys. Comments posted by bower.massey from United Kingdom, February 06, 2010: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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I have just connected the ADVC300 to my new Windows7 Home Premium laptop and Windows7 picked up the device and installed the driver straight away and the Picture Viewer seems to work fine. I could play analog video tapes and view them on my Windows7 system. Video was of good quality. Comments posted by enjeti from Australia, January 08, 2010: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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I've never been very pleased with this capture device, but at least with XP it still worked. I've recently gotten a new laptop which was unfortunately burdened with a 64 bit windows 7 O/S. Now the canopus (grass valley) ADVC 300 no longer will function. Neither Adobe Premiere, nor the Picture Controller can find the device "capture device is offline". I've tried to get help directly from Canopus. They appear to have been taken over by Grass Valley. Grass Valley does not seem to be providing support to Canopus customers. Who knows, they might not be providing support to GV customers either. I've read a bunch of message boards that have said to try hooking the ADVC up with a different firewire cable...Did that, restarted, rebooted, reinstalled, etc. and it still doesn't work. I also tried going from a 4 pin to 4 pin as well as a 6 pin to 4 pin IEEE 1394 and it still doesn't work. Fact of the matter is...this unit doesn't seem to be supported anymore. Therefor spending ANYTHING for one of these is not clever, at least until they (Grass Valley) update the software and begin to support their customers. Comments posted by plensch from United States, January 04, 2010: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 5 of 10. |
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There's no doubt that this little box is worth every pennny. It does a deasent job to restoring bad tapes, but don't expect miracles. SOME FEATURES NOISE FILTERING: Rating: 5 ADVC300 has some basic noise filters that may help you a bit on the way, but I'm a bit disapointed by the filter settings. There is two noise filters to choose from, but the filters has only 3 settings each (weak, middle and strong). In many cases I wish there was a setting between the weak and middle as I often get the feeling that the middle is to much and the weak is to little. I guess there's a lot better noise filters to apply in the software you are using. LTBC: Rating: 5 To be honest I haven't noticed much from the built in TBC. My overall impression is that the TBC hasn't done much to the image quality on my tapes, but maybe it's more noticeable when using lower quality playback equipment? My impression is that the built in TBC on my JVC HR-S7600 is far better than the one inside the ADVC300. There's no adjustment settings for the TBC and it's not even possible to switch it on and off. In my oppinion that's a big minus as it may cause conflicts with other and better TBC's, like mine (JVC HR-S7600) that canopus suggests to turn off when using together with the ADVC300. WHITE/BLACK ADJUSTMENT: Rating: 10 This excellent feature itself makes the box worth the money. With this feature you can adjust the black and whites (that's a verry common problem with old tapes) before it is captured to a "lossy" format. It's almost impossible to fix overblown whites after DV encoding because everything's been clipped to DV white. So this feature makes it possible to correct things in the analog space where there's still a bit of "headroom" left. CHIPSET AND PICTURE/SOUND QUALITY: Rating: 9 The chipset in this box is without doubt a high quality chip that prosess verry detailed and excellent image quality. It's far above other Connexant chips etc. on the market. It has 2D/3D Y/C Separation that separates the luma and chroma perfectley from composit inputs. With it's locked audio there's never a synch problem with the ADVC300. THE BOX ITSELF: Rating: 3 The box itself looks and feel terrible. It has a fan spinning inside that produces noise and the buttons for adjusting the settings are verry small and doesn't react every time they're pusshed. There's also some dip switches for settings that makes the box looks like it's from the 70's. It's almost impossible to adjust the settings without the Picture Controller software. I guess the ADVC300 is made for restoring analog tapes only, and for that purpose it does a deasent job. A big minus that there's not possible to turn the TBC and all the filters totally off to get a 100% clean signal. That makes it pretty useless for capturing other sources than bad tapes. I guess it's a great choise for those with a whole bunch of bad tapes for quick, reliable and good quality capture to a digital format. For those with a few tapes, I guess it's better to buy a clean capturing device (like ADVC110) withot the filters, and spend some time in combining software filters instead. It's much more time consuming, but I guess it will make a even better result in the end than what you can expect from this box. Comments posted by hysteriah from Norway, October 08, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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There's no doubt that this little b Comments posted by hysteriah from Norway, October 07, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Works perfectly out-of-the-box under Linux (I use Debian based Linux, kernel 2.6.18). Really easy. - Connect VHS-Recorder to ADVC-300 via analog lines and press PLAY - Connect ADVC-300 via Firewire - On the shell: dvgrab myvideo This gives you a my-video-01.avi. If dvgrab is not installed yet, do so on a Debian-based system by entering apt-get install dvgrab All this worked directly on the 1st try. Comments posted by Vogu from Luxembourg, June 18, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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Who should buy this unit: This capture deck is worth every dollar. If you have access or own NLE software such as Adobe Premiere Pro or Sony Vegas, you need a decent deck worthy of these packages. The last thing you want is the purchase price on a capture card/deck funding some demo/scaled down version of the above packages or worse, crapware without which the unit won't work. The only software this deck comes with is a PC/Mac version of the controls on the deck (a nice but not necessary feature). Because it is a deck, you don't have to worry about finding a spare PCI slot to stuff it in. The unit is hot swappable as long as you turn it off before connecting or disconnecting, so no reboots which is great! I got this deck so I could start doing analog to digital conversions on my laptop and right out of the box it worked! Here is my setup: Dell Inpiron 600m, 1.6 GHz Pentium M, 2 GB RAM PCMCIA 6-pin Firewire Card Windows XP SP2 Home Edition Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 Hi-8mm video on a Sony camcorder with S-Video output Not a single dropped frame thus far! Canopus offers a full line of capture decks, and the ADVC 300 is what I would classify as their top of the line consumer model. I would hardly classify it as professional or prosumer, if you don't believe me take a look at the prices of their ADVC 500 or 700. Note: Because the deck imprints its own TBC, Canopus recommends disabling the TBC on your video device if it supports it. Who shouldn't buy this unit: Cost conscious users. If you are new to video capture, be aware that the Canopus ADVC 300 will only get you half way there and you are already at least $400 in the hole. The unit DOES NOT capture video. It only converts the analog signal to digital or vice versa. A third party capture program is needed to write the digital signal to disk. Comments posted by Bill Clinton from United States, May 11, 2007: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 9 of 10. |
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I am completely disappointed in the ADVC-300. I bought 2 based on the user comments here and elsewhere, but after 1 week of intense testing (I'm not talking about 30 minutes here and there, 8 hours a day testing...) I found the image to be too "overprocessed". Even with all filters turned off (noise filters, etc...) there was still some minimum amount of image processing being performed. I suppose the unit may be helpful when adjustments NEED to be made, but I found it detrimental to image quality with decent source material. Using the DV passthru of my Sony TRV-480 camcorder produced a better picture than the ADVC-300, hands down. A/V synch was perfect with the ADVC-300. I would not recommend the ADVC-300 as the performance does not justify the price, particularly since cheaper, better options exist. Comments posted by jlietz from United States, September 21, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 2 of 10. |
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A little pricey but worth it. Can be found for $425 through Price Grabber. I began to capture using an external Adaptec VideoOh USB ($125) which only works with the provided software (My DVD) went next to an External Pinnacle 10 ($175) which had audio sync problems and finally the Canopus ADVC300, This unit does everything it says it can and is recognized by all my video editing programs except Roxio 7.5. Absolutely perfect audio sync and it does improve the image qualifty from old VHS tapes. I also use it to capture DirecTv in Mpeg2. Comments posted by maadm from United States, March 04, 2006: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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I'm not going to dispute that you had problems with your ADVC-300, but I want to point out that this does not match my experience with the unit. In fact, I bought my ADVC-300 specifically to help with a project that involved converting numerous old and degraded VHS tapes that were probably 15 to 20 years old. It did a phantastic job, and I couldn't be happier with the results. I do have a suggestion for you that might help with your problem. A poor tape might be interpreted as containing a Macrovision subsignal, which is something that the ADVC-300 ordinarily will refuse to capture. There is an undocumented way to bypass this, however: hold down both the two black adjustment buttons on the top of the unit for about ten seconds and release them. There will be no indication that anything has happened, and the setting will only be in effect until the unit is powered off. Try capturing now and see if that eliminates the problem. Comments posted by THoff from United States, August 13, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Have to give this Advc300 a failing mark due to problems capturing old vhs video when there is a dropped frame or a black frame the ADVC300 turns off the capture so if u hve a typicl old VHS tape your gonna have problems if u use Windows Movie Maker 2 or WinDV follow this link for more info http://forum.canopus.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Nu ... mp;fpart=1 Comments posted by Tonyrome_1 from United States, August 04, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 4 of 10. |
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The Canopus ADVC-300 seems to work properly however I cannot get the supplied Picture Controller Software to work in my Windows 2000 machine. Device manager shows the ADVC is installed and I have actually captured analog video. However the Picture controller software says it cannot find the ADVC-300. The settings can be changed via the programming on the device but this is very tedious. Comments posted by Greg from United States, July 01, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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This device is no fun! (Just kidding). Before I used the Dazzle HWB for capturing and spend most of the time spotting bad frames. This was "fun", as I learned a lot of things about DV enconding, which I never wanted to know. This device just does it: captures without dropping frames with clear picture. Now I trying to find the optimal features and adjustments for my needs, but out of the box is good enough for a quick start. On the other side, I have problems registering this device... Comments posted by Claus Anders from Japan, June 06, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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After a few years trying several capture cards, I decided to buy the Canopus ADVC-300. I wanted to restore and transfer to DVD-VCD-Divx mainly archival material, old TV programs (back to the 50's) and films from Argentina that today are in the public domain and no one cares to restore, because they are "not profitable merchandise". I needed a capture card that will not only capture, but will have also some kind of processing. The ADVC-300 has both a LTBC and a noise reduction capabilities. It captures DV *.avi via firewire (about 178 Mb/min). Setup was easy and took less than one minute. I ran several tapes thru' it to see how and if the card does what the manufacturer claims. The LTBC does wonders to VHS that is either worn and / or a copy of a copy. Without tweaking that much, I could see how old tapes came to life. A 90 mins film will create an AVI about 17GB big. Using U-Lead DVD Movie Factory, I edited and made a DVD that looks and sound great. This card is the best piece of equipment I worked with. I am already restoring some TV and old movies, and the results are superb!. Some points: 1) Your capturing partition must be formatted in NTFS and NOT in FAT32, otherwise you'll have a 4GB barrier. 2) Preview your video and tweak a bit. The ADVC-300 has a variety of controls to deal with every problem your source may have. 3) Use always premium media for your projects. Cheap DVD-R's are just that: cheap. Where I live, Israel, this card is not cheap, but it's worth every cent! My PC is a AMD 3200+ 64 bit, 1 Gig RAM, 200 GB Sata HD, 9600 XT vivo and Gigabyte motherboard. I run Win XP Pro. Daniel Beller daniel.beller@gmail.com Comments posted by daniel_beller from Israel, April 24, 2005: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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The current firmware includes an undocumented method of bypassing Macrovision -- all you need to do is hold down both of the two manual adjustment switches on top of the unit for about 15 seconds. The setting does not get saved, so if you power-cycle the ADVC-300, the feature is turned off again. The v1.01.002 firmware dated July 30, 2004 that includes this feature is accessible to all registered ADVC-300 users from the Driver Download section of Canopus' support site. Comments posted by THoff from United States, December 14, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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The ADVC 300 has superior caputer abilities to my ATI 9600 AIW and my Hauppauge PVR 250. It should as it costs consederably more :( I am quite happy with it though because it captured some older worn family VHS tapes that the AIW and Hauppauge could not capture accurately after adjusting the settings for several days. In short if you have any damaged video of just want to an excellent capture device I can highly recommend the ADVC-300 Michael Comments posted by mlanierjr from United States, August 22, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Excellent! I've used a ADVC100 to convert LD (Japan NTSC LD,video about scenery)to DVD but the result is disappointed. Particularly, the converted scence became a little bit blurred & darken in comparison with the original one. With ADVC300 linear time base corrector , this problem is fixed and the captured quality is as high as my LD even without using its adjustment functions such as color balance or noise reduction. Canopus did a great job! I highly recommend this device. Comments posted by Tony Choy from Hong Kong, July 21, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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Re: victoriabears comments... Given what you want to do (convert old VHS tapes), the major difference between the ADVC-300 and the ADVC-100 is the inclusion of a time-base-corrector (TBC). The integrated TBC corrects for timing/sync errors that are very common with older VHS tapes and can nearly eliminate all frame drops. With the locked A/V sync of the ADVC products, dropped frames usually do not result in A/V desynchronization (dropped frames usually result in A/V desynch with cards and boxes that lack this feature), but the dropped frames lead to jerky/glitching video. With the integrated TBC, the frequency of these glitches is vastly reduced. The ADVC-300 is a fairly economical way of getting this capability, as it is generally cheaper than buying an ADVC-100 and adding a TBC to it (e.g. Datavideo). Comments posted by pbanders from United States, June 21, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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Actaully an 8+. I've got to laugh when I read comments from sloths trying to copy a store bought or rented VHS movie. Try buying the DVD. I'm sure with your savvy, you could find a way to possible rent one and duplicate it, no? This is a Prosumer/Professional device made for those people who wish to bring the best quality analog video into their editing system as DV no matter how bad the source. Other than something like a 60,000 Sony ES7,or a turn-key Avid system, you can't beat this. It's only about $500!!! If you don't think so, than you either dont know how to use it, your system can't handle it, or your way out of your league. Try going to someplace like Circuit city and buying a, hahaha, Dazzle solution for your capture needs. You'll be dropping more frames than a clumsy, blind, Optician. Comments posted by Damien from United States, May 01, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 8 of 10. |
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Great capture divice. Does not drop frames. Great control over improving old VHS tapes. As for anything that causes the ADVC-300 to show a dark screen, I have found that this little black box takes care of the problem. At 30 bucks its a bargin. http://shop.store.yahoo.com/direct/dvdvidstab.html Comments posted by lhaquick from United States, March 02, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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AS I used to work with the ADVC 100,and found it very good except for the fact that it lacked some adjusting possibilities like video background noise reduction ect,I was very happy to see that Canopus had rectified it with the ADVC 300.I opened the ADVC 100 once,and realized that the input IC is the famous PHILIPS SAA 7414 which can decode PAL,SECAM and NTSC colour systems,adjust the black level ect, just by applying the right digital status on its respective bus connections.If you want to know more about that little wonder,you can download its datas and implementing diagrams on the PHILIPS site,and like me,you'll be convinced that if CANOPUS had made a little effort in exploiting more of its potantials there wouldn't have been any need for an ADVC300.As rightly noticed by the previous comment,I am myself beginning to get fedup by the ease with which everybody in this so called European Community bents down under American pressure.As far as electrical applyiances are concerned,it looks like if the norms satisfy the so called FCC Rule part15,we all should be happy with it on the basis that if it's good for the USA,it's good for the rest of the world.Legally speaking,most of the European community countries allow their citizens to make audio or video copies of their self bought or paid for materials but no one of them seems courageous enough to apply its selfmade laws and they all collapse under USA pressures which I personally begin to resent as a kind of hegemonious dictature.So as the ADVC300 was made mainly for the american market,all there rests us to do is to accept the fact that if it's good for them,it must be ok for us.To end,I can only say that in spite of the fact that I really was intending to buy the ADVC300,I will not do so after all, unless CANOPUS respects the EU Legal specificities by selling us apparatus enabling us to make copies within our own legal limits.By the way when one reads what is coming up in a near future in legal and technical terms,one wanders if it still makes any sens to buy sophisticated recording machines if all you are allowed to record with are just a few dusty VHS tapes you made during hollydays. Comments posted by alan from Netherlands, February 27, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? |
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David Drake is right - this device can not stream microvision protected tapes! It's very sad to see that Canopus gets so scared of legal problems.. I call it NO BALLS sindrom! It's great device otherwise but attempt to make it politically and legally correct will cost Canopus money. Many people will simply return their converters back to Canopus after running into this trap! And this is good punishment for Canopus for licking Big Brother's ass! Screw them for doing that! Comments posted by nick13 from United States, February 27, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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After more than 60 posts to the Canopus thread, "ADVC-300 and Noisy Signal - dark capture," it seems that the ACVC-100's very special undocumented feature has indeed been removed from ADVC-300. Whether that will be reintroduced with a firmware upgrade down the road seems unlikely. Don't plan on being able to decrypt your MacroVision tapes with this box. Comments posted by David Drake from United States, February 21, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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What I wrote before about ADVC-300 not being able to defeat MacroVision may not be correct. Check out the active thread going on over at forum.canopus.com titled, "ADVC-300 and Noisy Signal - dark capture". However, to date nobody writing in has figured out what combination of dip switch settings will bring this feature to life. Stay tuned -- I'm sure much more will be written about this subject. Comments posted by David Drake from United States, February 14, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP? Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: No rating. |
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This little device really rocks! I captured some very bad quality VHS and no dropped frames at all. The same capture with Pinnacle DC10 caused about 20 or more frames per minute. And the image quality is by far superior. I even think that the colors looks nicer than the original tape. It's true that you can disable Macrovision, as ADCV-100, but I use it to transfer personal tapes to DVD, no macrovision protected, so it's fine for me. Thanks a lot Canopus! Comments posted by Gaston from France, February 13, 2004: Compatibility: Win95? Win98 Win2K? WinXP Vista? NT4? MAC? Linux? - Rated: 10 of 10. |
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