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[John Rofrano]

[doyal gudgel] “Lots of the tapes have degenerated with age and not worth going over everything again. I don’t think I would have benefited with the Canopus ADVC-55 before going to Vegas movie maker.”

Actually, you would have benefitted from the Canopus ADVC-300 (which is the one I have) because it has a Time Base Corrector that cleans up the signal from old degraded tapes but it cost quite a bit more than the ADVC-55 or ADVC-100 which are less expensive devices with less capabilities.

You still would have benefitted from the ADVC-55 because DV is much more tolerant of noise then MPEG2 is. This would have given you an opportunity to really clean up the noise before going to MPEG2.

~jr

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[Doyal Gudgel]

what kind of file would the file be when the tape is downloaded? MPG2″ dv avi? Before vegas I don’t think I had anything that would edit it. That is why I said I would not have benefited from it. I had an editing deck way back that had a time base corrector. In fact I think it was a sony. It cost a thousand when a thousand was real money. But until Vegas I had nothing except nero and other stuff like that. Does this device keep the file interlaced or convert it to progressive scan? I’m not opposed to spending a little money because it is either spend it on me or give it to the rest home later. Old tapes have more than noise problems. What is your estimate of what the cost would be?

[Mike Kujbida]

“what kind of file would the file be when the tape is downloaded?”

DV-AVI

“Before vegas I don’t think I had anything that would edit it”

Windows MovieMaker

“Does this device keep the file interlaced or convert it to progressive scan?”

Interlaced

“What is your estimate of what the cost would be?”

$200 at B&H for the device and power supply.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?N=0&InitialSearch=yes&Q=&O=&Ntt=ADVC-55&A=endecaSearch

[Doyal Gudgel]

thanks

[John Rofrano]

Thanks Mike for answering those. The ADVC-55 only does capture but that’s all you need which is why I recommended it. The ADVC-100 does capture and print back to tape. The ADVC-300 does capture and print to tape with TBC and color correction. You can spend whatever you want on these things and as Mike pointed out… every video editing application for the past 15 years has been able to edit DV.

~jr

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