Customer Reviews

ADVC110 A/d Converter

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Connected it to the firewire input on my iMac OS X 10.5.2 and read in several VHS tapes into iMovie HD. It was easy to connect to my VHS tape player and showed up in iMove HD. The home movies came out better than the original tape. The iLife program iDVD burned it to a disk that I could play on my DVD player.
The monitor output on the Canopus ADVC110 made it easy to watch on my TV as I was loading it.

Been wanting to move my library of VHS tapes over to DVD for a long time. The problem was, I couldn't find the proper means of doing the task.
I read many reviews for software products as well as hardware gadgets from the likes of Pinnacle and Elgato but none of these were rated well for
being able to preserve the original quality of the VHS when transferring to media meant to be shown on a large screen TV.

It was by accident that I came across a recommendation for the ADVC-110. Though it was a rather expensive purchase, I felt that the reviews for
it were strong enough to take a chance on buying it.

I kid you not when I say that the day the ADVC-110 arrived I had it up and running within minutes after taking it out of the box without
even reading the instructions.

I simply connected the ADVC-110 to my VHS player using S-VIDEO (for Video) and RCA outputs for the sound to the identical inputs on the rear
of the unit. I then plugged the ADVC-110 via Firewire 400 into my Mac Pro.

Amazingly, iMovie instantly recognized the input. All I had to do was press record on iMovie and PLAY on my VHS player and the transfer
began automatically.

A few notes....

* On iMovie '09 I was not able to hear audio on my computer during the transfer process. I was only able to see that it was transferring the video.
Rest assured the audio is being recorded as well. I switched to the older iMovie '07 (which I recommend and can be still found as a free download
on the net) and I was able to hear the audio during its transfer.

* Be sure to select the lit switch on the front of the ADVC-110 to ANALOG for transfers using VHS or another analog source.


Though the ADVC-110 is not capable of providing quality better than the original source, I was pleasantly pleased that there seemed to be no
degradation in quality from the original VHS to the final product I viewed on my 65" display.

While $200 is quite a sum of money for many considering transferring their VHS tapes to DVD, I don't think you can do much better without this product.
You certainly can't by spending less on cable gadgets that are designed more for transferring to an iPod than DVD media.

I got my digital converter a couple weeks ago and have been on FIRE converting my old VHS tapes to DVD through imovie on my mac. It does everything it says it does, and it is totally worth shelling out the big bucks. I don't typically write reviews, but I love this little thing.

Works perfect, right out of the box! I recommend the Firewire connection, so you do not need a separate AC adapter. I have a relatively new iMac with a 9 pin Firewire connector so I had to purchase a separate cable.

Thank you!

I don't have any knowledge of other products to compare this item to, but I will say that the ADVC110 has done exactly what it said it would do. I needed an analog to digital converter to get some old 8mm tapes to digital. I've read about products that have sync problems with audio and video, but the sync with audio and video has been flawless. I use Mac and Mac likes Firewire which makes this a great choice for Mac.

I needed to do a lot of conversions of my families photos. This item was referred to me by an Apple employee. It works great, just what I needed. I couldn't be happier.

So far I have converted about 6 hours of VHS to my Windows Vista PC. The tapes are 17 years old and the quality of the converted video is much better than if you watch the tapes on a VCR. I had a little trouble figuring out which program on my computer to use to do the capture and settled on the Windows Import Video app. I have had absolutely no problems with audio/video syncing. Overall very pleased with this converter.

This has worked great for me, fast clean video. A few warnings:

Windows laptops don't support sending power via the 6-pin firewire, even with an add-in card (like a PCMCIA card). So I couldn't get this to work without a power adapter, which I had to order separately.

The analog in/out should be a sliding switch rather than a toggle button. As it is, I have to press that button every time the power is cycled, yet I'm always using it in the same configuration (A->D)

I wish it streamed the input composite signal to the output ports, while I need to digital signal to go to my computer this device would be more useful to me if I could attach a monitor to it and be able to see the signal both on an analog monitor while it was feeding to my computer.

As good as advertised. On-time delivery and it is a great product to convert all of my 18-year worth of family video diary into digital files in computer.

I use this to capture gameplay footage from my consoles. The video quality is pretty good, and it's totally compatible with my Mac and Final Cut. Of course if you need to capture HD footage this is NOT the product you want; it only has the yellow-red-white inputs, S Video, and a digital video input.