Re: Sony Hi8 to Movie Maker via Canopus ADVC 110 Video Converter

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George,

I just wish Dell was smart enough to put in the manual that you HAD to go in
to the BIOS and make the change for drive 2. They tell you in detail how to
install, how to set the pins, how to use the manufacturer's disk to format
the drive, yet they don't tell you how to set it up to be auto detected. For
a mid level user like myself, not a cut and dry thing. Took awhile to find
the solution.

"George S. Ellis" wrote:

> Thanks Steve. I keep forgetting that not everyone has figured out CS yet.
> :) Dell has been using it for at least 8 years that I remember.
>
> "Steve" <Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:A00A73A3-7FAD-4549-8682-D58A3D5FCD4E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Chris,
> >
> > Did you install the 2nd drive yourself? If so are the master/slave
> > settings
> > correct. I have a Dell 8300 3.0 GHz machine about 2 years old. The manual
> > recommends cable select and not master/slave. Plus after installing the
> > 2nd
> > drive I had to go into the BIOS and toggle the setting on the primary IDE
> > channel-Drive 1 (second drive, as C: drive is drive 0) from OFF to AUTO.
> > Changing to AUTO lets the BIOS auto detect the drive on boot up. If it
> > cant
> > auto detect it sets the transfer mode to PIO which is the slowest. It may
> > also drop your C:drive transfer mode down to Ultra DMA 2. Toggling to auto
> > would bring both up to Ultra 5. If your second drive is at PIO mode (check
> > in
> > the disk management) than this is most likely your problem. Another poster
> > seems to have this issue as their videos look terrible after backing up to
> > 2nd drive not capturing to the second drive. That was my problem as well.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Steve
> >
> > "Chris S." wrote:
> >
> >> Ok, thanks for the tip.
> >>
> >> I have discovered part of the problem - when I switched over to recording
> >> on
> >> to my "C" drive instead of my dedicated video drive ("E"), all the
> >> dropped
> >> frames went away when using "Digital device format" - smooth as silk.
> >> So,
> >> the next question is, what do I have set incorrectly that I can't capture
> >> video to my video drive (E) without getting tons of dropouts??? Is it
> >> the
> >> drive, drive speed, buffer, connection, setting . . . what???
> >>
> >> "George Ellis" wrote:
> >>
> >> > Find and try VirtualDub for creating your DV-AVI files. That
> >> > application
> >> > may resolve these issues.
> >> >
> >> > "Chris S." <ChrisS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> > news:12EFD489-30A9-418A-9C6D-BC14C9204B09@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > > I have a Dell Dimension XPS with a Pentium 4, 3.20 GHz cpu with
> >> > > HT
> >> > dual
> >> > > processors. I have 1.5 GB of RAM and am running Windows Professional
> >> > > XP,
> >> > > Service Pack 2. I have a dedicated 120 GB hard drive for
> >> > > storing/editing
> >> > > video. I just hooked up my new Canopus ADVC 110 digital video
> >> > > converter
> >> > box
> >> > > to my PC via 6-pin firewire and to my Sony Hi8 camcorder using analog
> >> > > RCA
> >> > > audio/video inputs and I am having very disappointing results. When
> >> > > I
> >> > import
> >> > > using "Best quality for playback on my computer", I don't have any
> >> > trouble,
> >> > > but the quality of the video is not what I had hoped. When I
> >> > > selected
> >> > "Other
> >> > > settings" and opted for "high quality video (NTSC)", I had no import
> >> > > problems, but the video quality was still not there, even when I
> >> > > burned it
> >> > to
> >> > > DVD and viewed it on my Sony Trinitron 27" TV. So today I tried
> >> > > importing
> >> > > video using the "Digital device format (DV-AVI)" and my preview video
> >> > > was
> >> > > good for awhile, but started to drop frames and just about freeze
> >> > > after 2
> >> > > minutes. When I played it back, the first few seconds, which seemed
> >> > > to
> >> > > import flawlessly on preview, played back with regular intervals of
> >> > > frame
> >> > &
> >> > > audio dropouts. PLEASE HELP. I want to achieve the same
> >> > > "quality"/look
> >> > of
> >> > > full-motion, crisp "live" video burned to a DVD that I achieve when I
> >> > > dub
> >> > my
> >> > > movies from Hi8 to VHS. I have increased my RAM and purchased this
> >> > Canopus
> >> > > ADVC 110 to do this, but the video I am seeing is most disappointing
> >> > > even
> >> > > when there are no frame drops - staggered/sluggish/uncrisp/"film
> >> > > look"
> >> > > instead of a live "video" look. Do I need and internal analog
> >> > > converter
> >> > card
> >> > > instead of this Canopus external analog to digital (& vice-versa)
> >> > converter
> >> > > box? It seems I read a post where someone was getting the quality
> >> > > results
> >> > I
> >> > > wanted from a Hi8 to Movie Maker import/edit/export to DVD.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
>
>
>
.

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