Instant DVD, a very good product
Written: May 28 '02
|
Product Rating:
|
|
|
Pros: Breakthrough product, one of a kind
Cons: Need a power switch, better user instructions
The Bottom Line: nice piece of hardware, in needing of more user friendly/useful software for VCD/SVCD creation.
|
|
|
| ray_rwm's Full Review: A D S Instant DVD (USBAV-700) Video Capture |
If you have boxes and boxes of home movie video tapes sitting in the basement rutting away. You would think of a way to transfer them to a more permanent form, such as CD/DVD. Until recent I have found such a product, which is call UBS Instant DVD by ADS.
This is a hardware devise which digitizes the analog signal from the VHS/cancorder player and sends it to the computer as MPEG 1(VCD) of MPEG 2(DVD/SVCD) format and which can be burn to CD-R or DVD via burner software.
So far I have converted about 50% of all my tapes in to SVCDs, each SVCD CD-R can hold about 45 to 50 mins of near DVD quality video.
I have found the included MyDVD software useless. since the resulting miniDVD on CD-R can only be played on computer CD-Rom drive.
The software package also lacking software necessary to authur VCD/SVCD,and CDimaging software, which is needed to creat VCD/SVCD playable at stand alone DVD players.
Fortunately I was able to obtain VCDimage from the web and also bought a copy of Fireburner (a VCD/SVCD image burner)to burn the SVCD image file( cue/bin files) which I have created to CD-Rs.
Initally I have found the audio syn problem with VCDs which I have created. This problem has since then resolved after I downloaded and upgraded the capturing software.
A lot of info about VCD/SVCD creation can be obtain from VCDhelp.com
If you have some digital video experience, you should find this is a very nice piece of hardware,it has very low computer hardware requirement.
Following are the specs of this product:
Video Capture:
Real time encoding of analog video in to the following formats:
Full D1 MPEG 2 broadcast resolution (704 x 480 NTSC / 720 x 576 PAL)
˝ D1 MPEG2 (352 x 480 NTSC / 352 x 576 PAL)
VCD MPEG 1 (352 x 240 NTSC / 352 x 288 PAL)
Frame Rates: 29.97 NTSC and 25 fps PAL
Video Bit Rate: 1.5 Mb/sec to 6 Mb/sec Constant Bit Rate encoding (CBR)
Audio Bit Rate: 128 Kbits/sec., 224 Kbits/sec., 384 Kbits/sec
Connection to PC: USB 1.0 and 2.0
Output:
Display full screen on a TV
Video tape (VCR or camcorder)
CD-RW as VCD or as DVD on CD (includes DVD run time player) – Just pop the CD in and it opens in a DVD player software
DVD-R – and play in 98% of all home DVD players
Save as streaming video and publish to the web
Includes:
USB Instant DVD device
6’ USB cable
Audio/Video connection cables
Power Supply
Instant DVD CD complete with:
-Ulead Video Studio 6.0 (Full Version)
-Sonic Solutions MyDVD 3.5 DVD Authoring Software
-Sonic Foundry’s Sound Forge XP
-Sonic Foundry’s Acid Style
-Cyberlink's Power DVD
Inputs/Outputs
Front:
Video In (RCA jack)
Right/Left Audio In (RCA jack)
Rear:
Video In (RCA jack)
S-VHS, S-Video Video In (4-pin miniDIN jack)
Video Out (RCA jack)
S-VHS, S-Video Video Out (4-pin miniDIN jack)
Stereo Audio In (3.5 mm jack)
Stereo Audio Out (3.5 mm jack)
USB connector
Power Connector
System Requirements:
Intel Celeron 400 MHz or AMD K6-400 or better
Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 or XP
64 MB (128 MB recommended)
Sound Card with full duplex capabilities
AGP or PCI 3D video card with 4MB (16 MB recommended)
CD-ROM Drive (for software installation)
150 MB hard disk space for capture/editing applications
Disk space for video captures; video captured at 4 Mb/sec (MPEG2 704 x 480 @ 30fps) will use 1.8 GB per hour
CD-R or DVD-R drive required for saving movie files onto a CD or DVD.
Recommended:
Yes
|
|
|
|
Epinions.com ID:
ray_rwm
|
|
Member: Raymond Moy
Reviews written: 3
Trusted by: 0 members
|
|
|
- Add to My Yahoo!: 
- Add to Google Homepage: 
© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc.