Posted by Mike Kujbida on 12/30/06 14:22

Danne wrote:
> Hello
>
> Until today I have only edit DV film with PE2 but I will go further. I
> have some VHS tapes (4:3) that I want to capture and edit. I also have
> also stored some films (16:9) in a DVB reciever that I want to save on
> a DVD for my children.
>
> As I have understand all those tree canopus devices above will do the
> VHS task with PE2 (with some "noise/jitter" disadvantage for
> ADVC-110).


That's corect. The ADVC-300 & the TwinPact100 both have built-in TBCs as
well as digital noise reducers to help clean up things like VHS tape.


> I have noted that ADVC-300 has a dip-switch that you can set it to
> ratio 16:9 or 4:3. What about ADVC-110, can it capture in 16:9 too ?


Don't see why not. All of these devices simply transcode a signal from
analog to digital (or vice-versa) so it shouldn't make any difference what's
fed into it.
My suspicion is that the switch on the ADVC-300 does the conversion from 4:3
to 16:9 for you.


> The price for ADVC-110 compared to ADVC-300 is rather big. If I have
> to go for the ADVC-300 I thing that TwinPact100 have almost the same
> price as ADVC-300. Is there any disadvantage of using the TwinPact100
> instead of ADVC-300 ?


The only feature the TwinPact100 has that the ADVC-300 doesn't is the
ability to do VGA-to-analog/ DV scan conversion (i.e. from a computer). If
that's important, then go for it. Otherwise, the ADVC-300 is a much better
tool for your needs.


> I have tried to search for the manuals but with no success (Only found
> a French manual of the 300 and a Japaniese version of the 110) Any
> idee of finding a English, Swedish, Danish or Norwedian manuals ?


The manuals (at least for the ADVC-100 I have) only cover button functions.
By that I mean, button A does this and button B does this. There really
isn't a whole lot more to the manual than is already mentioned on the
website.

Mike

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