Messages posted by bjmjpl

Quote: Canopus makes high end analog video capture devices. Believe that they also manufacture the ones with time base correction for professional use. You have one that connects to the pc with firewire. See this link: http://www.amazon.com/Grass-Valley-Canopus-77010150100-Converter/dp/B00030ATTO .

The output is dv which is about 13 GB per hour. You need a large hard drive indeed for 35 tapes. This unit does not capture copyrighted tapes.

More than likely a noisy tape triggered the macrovision flag either in this unit or in powerdirector to stop recording. The fix on the software would be to use WMM.

If using a laptop with a usb to firewire connector then it is possible that that the pc went either to the standby mode or to sleep shutting off the particular usb port before your 6 hours was up. You can set the screensaver and power saving modes to whatever you want.

very interesting - this may be it - for 6 hours i can record to a 25gb file - i have a few 2tb harddrives sso good to go there nad then i am just scanning them and deleting most

i have one letterman program i am trying to save and it keeps blowing up - dont think it is a macrovision issue but could be noisey tape that creates that error not sure - but what is the fix to use wmm mean exactly - sorry noob thank you!

ok cool thanks but i sometimes it can handle it fine and i reboot and i bought this monster machine but ill give that a whirl thx!

HAving many issues - using win8.1:

sometimes it works and i can get a 6hr file from videotape and it plays fine -

many many times lately it is saying

it cannot save the file type AFTER 6 hours of obivous working converting and the entire file is lost

OR

it saves the file correctly and i have a tiny file that is unplayble instead of a 22gb file that just works

what am i doing wrong - this conversion of 35 vcr tapes if going to take months at this rate of hit and miss and i jsut want to get a refund of the sw if that is the case - thank you