Customer Reviews

ADS Pryo AV Link with Full Version of Adobe Elements 2.0

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I used this with my iMac to convert some Hi8 tapes to DVD. It worked great. It was easy to setup. iMovie recognized that it was connected. The quality was very good.

I love this box! It is very lightweight and does not feel substantial--but after all it's just a circuit board in a plastic housing. However I'm very pleased with its performance. I shoot and edit video almost full time. I have run my HD camcorder directly into this box for capture and so far have 0 lost frames. I use Adobe Premiere Pro (not elements) and Premiere recognized the capture device right away. I have connected a VCR to the box for capture from VHS tapes and it works great. There's a control for digital vs analog captures, so I imagine hooking up a DVD player for capture would work, but I have not tested that yet. Inputs on the box are 1394, composite and S-video. Output interfaces are composite, AND component, 1394 and S-video. Very satisfied!

I bought this video converter about 2 months ago based on my experience with other Pyro products Id used in the past. It worked great for the first 3 weeks. Since then, however, no video or audio on the capture screen. I have put in requests with ADS Tech support 3 times, and have yet to receive one bit of support for the problem. ADSTech obviously feels very little responsibility for the customers who buy their products. All that being said, the Adobe Elements software works just fine.

This product works great, just as expected. I have been using it to enconde all my VHS and 8mm old tapes. It came with a little on/off switch problem, but I managed to get around that by leaving it always on, and just unplugging it from the outlet. The Adobe software that comes along with it is a MUST. It has a lot of features, and makes you feel like a pro. Definetly a good acquisition.

I got the same problem as a lot of people at first, the unit appeared to die after only a minute, and then I couldn't get anything out of it. I eventually switched the firewire port it was plugged into, I thought this would have no chance since I already unplugged and replugged into the same port. It worked! And ever since then it has been fine. I wonder how many people having the "dead" units are just running into this problem. If you only have one firewire port you could try uninstalling the firewire controller and reinstalling it.

I use the a/v link, with adobe premiere elements 3.0 (it is so much better than 4.0).

I then reencode all the outputted files using TMPGENC XPress 4.0 and DVD Author tool. This is the best piece of software I have ever purchased, I highly recomend it if you are at all intersted in doing video editing the correct way. Or even just video archiving for that matter.

I use the DivX encoder, quantizer 4, de-interlace source.
I use M-PEG-Layer3 (mp3) 192 kbps CBR (constant bit rate is VERY important)

Well I am just opening the product box and when I tried to connect to my PC: surprise! I didn't take into account that it requires a OHCI-compliant 1394 card or built in port which my pc does not have right now. Of course, i will buy it and tell you how it worked out.