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Cant get Canopus advc110 working at all???
Hi all,
I have just bought a canopus advc110 in the hope of capturing vhs tapes in FCP7. I am working on the old white iMac core duo, and im running osx 10.6.7
I have a vhs player (pal) connected to the advc via a (red, white, yellow) cable. I have the advc set to Analogue in. I have the unit both plugged into a power source and via firewire (i have tried minus the power supply too). And on the back the only switch i have set to on is number 6 (set to PAL).
When i try and capture in FCP all i get is colour bars and the message ‘preview disabled’. If i used firewire controlled device (i have been using no controllable device), it recognizes that there is something connected, but no picture or signal still.
When i try via imovie HD it gives me the option to use the advc as the source but when i choose this imovie tells me the camera is playing but all that is displayed is a blue screen and no capturing takes place.
Not even sending the colour bars from the advc device to either FCP or imovie shows up.
I have spent the last two days looking online to find the cure so any help would be appreciated. -
17 Replies
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Open QT and and a “New Movie Recorder”.
have a look if you are getting the Canopus signal there.
If not, your Mac is not getting any recordable signal through the FW.
rafael -
In couple days I’m gonna try to exercise the same kind of stunt: I’ve have a bunch of old vhs tapes and conopus advc 110. I’ve already tried to capture in vain. I seem to have a problem with vhs recorder (gonna have different one). I promise to report later on success/failure. Would you please tell me if you succeeded. I’m very interested in it since I’m heading for truckload of this stuff to digitize in weeks to come.
Free-lance fcp editor in Moscow
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I’ve had good results with the 110.
So, if you press the play button on your VHS player and then click Capture Now, what happens?
Russ
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I have one, never had any issues… You should not have another camera device connected to your other FW port though…
C.R.
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I’ve tried recording through QuickTime but there was no signal being received just a black screen.
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The capture screen opens then a message comes up saying something along the lines of ‘no video signal can’t capture’ I’m not at home to check at the minute but will say exactly what it is when I get to check again.thanks
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I’ve tried disconnecting all FireWire devices bar the advc and still nothing
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Is the Canopus light on when it’s plugged into your computer?
C.R.
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Yeah it is,I know the computer knows it’s there as it shows up as an option in iMovie HD,just doesn’t play through. Unless it is the VHS player itself I’ll wait to hear how everest gets on with a different player
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[Martin Kennedy] “Yeah it is,I know the computer knows it’s there as it shows up as an option in iMovie HD,just doesn’t play through. Unless it is the VHS player itself I’ll wait to hear how everest gets on with a different player”
QT Player is the simplest way to capture on a Mac: If you can’t capture FW with QT Player, you won’t be able to capture with FC or iMovie.
To discharge any hardware issue (Desk, Canopus, FW connexion, computer), try what i wrote.
If you get the picture on QT window, then is an FC or iMovie issue.
rafael
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