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MagicmanAA · Post by **MagicmanAA** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:45 am

I am having a hard time trying to figure out how to get my vhs onto my computer.I get some audio, but no video. The screen is just black or green. Iam using a JVC GR-SXM330 camcorder and I am transferring the video through a USB 2.0 port. Any ideas or helpful hints would be appreciated! Thanks!!

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:27 am

The procedures are more or less the same irrespective of which Ulead product you use. We tend to create Tutorials using a cross section of the products available.

Please view:
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=13421
Also the supplemental link to the Hauppauge Card

MagicmanAA · Post by **MagicmanAA** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:11 pm

Sorry for not saying what I am using. Iam using Video Studio 9. Aloso I am using RCA cords from my camera to my cumputer using the ADS Tech Video Express, Part Number USBAV-191. I have tried all recommended solutions but nothing works. Do I just use all default settings or do I need to use different settings. I have no clue on computers or anything, I just wanted to get a few 2 minute clips on to my computer. Hopefully someone can help me.Thanks!

MagicmanAA · Post by **MagicmanAA** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:15 pm

My camera is about 6 years old, and I can't find the firewire socket on my camera, which leads me to believe that it doesn't have one. So does that mean I can't just use my RCA cords?

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 6:24 pm

What sort of cam is it?
Minidv? Hi8, Video8, VHS-C?

If it is analogue, then it wo't have firewire and you are left to use teh analogue cables, and to succesfully capture you are best getting a decent analogue to digital capture device, ones from canopus' advc range, or Miglia are very good, as they take the component inputs and output to firewire, so VS etc things it is a digitial camcorder.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 6:27 pm

You have an analogue camcorder so you will not have an IEEE1394 (Firewire/i-Link) connection.

Yes you do use the RCA Cables and connect to the USBAV-91

Video Xpress Features: wrote: * Captures video at resolutions up to 720 x 480 (NTSC)
* Connects to Windows XP machines USB 2.0 port
* Integrated input connections with RCA and S-Video and Right and Left audio RCA
* Video is sent over the USB cable uncompressed so you have the highest quality possible
* Video can be directly captured as .AVI, compressed .AVI, MPEG-1 or Windows Media Video
* Capture home movies from any analog video source to your computer hard drive
* Trim clips, add music background, and select a movie theme then let Movie Wizard or Muvee Producer do the video editing for you
* Burn Video to disc in VideoCD format

The problem is possibly something to do with capturing via a USB cable - over which you appear to have no choice in the matter.

Hopefully this additional information may be enough for one of our other members to provide an answer because I only capture from a camcorder either via a Firewire cable, or in the case of my old analogue camcorder through a Hauppauge TV card which has a built in hardware MPEG encoder.

MagicmanAA · Post by **MagicmanAA** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:11 pm

My camera is a VHS-C. So what is a digital capture device? Isn't what I got a capture device? ( Video Xpress USBAV-191) Or is it just a bad one and I need to get a better one? Thanks for all the help so far, but I know I will need more!

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:45 pm

Yes, your ADS device is a capture device, and lots of people use it successfully -- though I would probably have to add that if you intend to do a lot of analogue capture, then I would be thinking of something a bit more sophisticated, and at the very least one of the ADS devices which has hardware mpeg-2 encoding (or, much more expensively, as Skier has suggested, one which hardware encodes to DV/AVI).

Normally, you would only connect the RCA cords to the relevant plugs on the camera (yellow for video and red for audio, if the camera is mono, as I suspect it probably is, or red and white if stereo). If the camera actually has an S-video socket (5 pin DIN), then even better as this will normally give better quality video capture quality. But with S-video you still need to connect your audio RCA cables. All these cables go from the camera to the ADS box, which then connects to your computer via USB cable.

Are you certain the port on your computer is USB 2.0? It may not be if the computer is a few years old -- you don't give us its specs. If it is USB 1.0 it may not be able to transmit the signal from the ADS box fast enough. Also, is it possible to swap USB cables, as the existing cable might be defective...?

Or finally, it might be a peculiarity of a VHS-C camera. All I seem to recall about them is that they use huge tapes. But apart from that, I can think of no logical reason why you should not be able to capture from them the same as from any other analogue video camera. Maybe others will have more information on this point.

MagicmanAA · Post by **MagicmanAA** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:57 pm

Yea, I do have a USB 2.0 port. I know that because I bought it with my Ipod. Thanks for the info. I will try and buy a S-Video cord next. Thanks for the advice!

Does anyone else have any advice? I really appreciate all of this!

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:11 pm

Do you get the option to chose the video input device in VS?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:24 pm

As Graham has just suggested, when you connect everything to the computer and have the camera switched on in PLAY mode and ready to go, then open Video Studio and select Capture > Capture Video. Does anything appear in the little box in the upper left quarter of the VS9 screen, labelled Source, which shows the ADS device as a capture source?

If not, then this suggests there may be something wrong with one of the connection cables. I see, on looking more closely at the ADS website, that the USB cable is integrated at the box end, so my earlier suggestion of changing the USB cable will not work. You might, though, want to use a different set of RCA cables in case the existing ones are the problem.

Then to eliminate another possibility, do any of your friends have an analogue camera which you could try connecting? If that does not work, then you might need to be thinking about the ADS device itself (including its integrated USB cable) being defective.

MagicmanAA · Post by **MagicmanAA** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 12:33 am

On the source option, its says Instant Video Xpress, which is the ADS device.

I somewhat get a video now, but it is kinda scambled and it jumps all over the screen. Any clues on why this is happening? Thanks!

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 1:19 am

MagicmanAA wrote:On the source option, its says Instant Video Xpress, which is the ADS device.

I somewhat get a video now, but it is kinda scambled and it jumps all over the screen. Any clues on why this is happening? Thanks!

That sounds like you need to adjust the tracking in the VCR player. I don't know if there is some way to adjust the tracking in your camcorder. For my VHS-C tapes I use the VHS adapter and play them in my VCR. Then to capture to computer use the outputs from my VCR..

Ron P.

MagicmanAA · Post by **MagicmanAA** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 1:45 am

I think the tracking is fine, because it looks good on the LCD screen on my camera.

MagicmanAA · Post by **MagicmanAA** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:04 pm

Ok, I just bought a S-Video cable. The video is still blurry and jumps around alot, and the audio has pops in them. Can anyone help me please? Thanks!