Help! I can't get my ADS USB Instant ACD device to work...

spwrestla · Post by **spwrestla** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:48 am

with Video Studio 8! I have read the instruction manual but it doesn't help me. The program shows that my device is connected, but it doesn't show up or record onto my computer. Help please! Private message me if you are confused about what I did! Thanks!

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:59 am

Please don't PM a possible solution - someone else may have the same problem.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:00 am

ADS devices are notorious for using proprietary software. Normally, they come with capture software called CapWiz. Generally, we recommend to people to use this software to capture. You can then open the captured video in VS8 for editing.

spwrestla · Post by **spwrestla** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:57 pm

Black, I meant if anyone needed more explanation, not to answer, but thanks!

And thanks Ken! I am currently downloading CapWiz from the ADS site!

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:13 pm

I see that now. Sorry.

spwrestla · Post by **spwrestla** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:02 am

Sadly, CapWiz didn't work. I think it is the Video Capture DEVICE not the program. If you have any more info please tell me but I do not expect anyone here to know this since it is an ADS product. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

spwrestla · Post by **spwrestla** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:22 am

I just can't figure out how to get the sound working...

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:26 am

Is this device a small (triangular?) black box with, on the front of it, red, white and yellow RCA connections and an S-Video plug, and at the other end, a USB cord?

If so, I think part of your problem might, as you suggest, be the device's limitations. It is a long discontinued product, and was only ever meant to capture mpeg-1 format in 640 x 480 frame size. It could not capture in any other format or frame size. The CD in the name suggests also that it was only ever meant to produce files (mpeg-1) which could be burned to CD i.e. VCDs (and not/not DVDs or even SVCDs, both of which require mpeg-2 video). While you could get reasonable quality on these VCDs, it of course depended on the original quality of the material being captured.

So if you are trying to capture any other format through the device e.g. mpeg-2 or AVI, you cannot do it as the device handles one format and one format only: mpeg-1...

spwrestla · Post by **spwrestla** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:51 pm

Yes, it is what you described.

I actually did get the video to work, but now the software doesn't want to recognize the device's sound. So I don't think it is the device's limitations because I am using a pretty old computer (about 5-7 yaers)

spwrestla · Post by **spwrestla** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:57 am

Figured it all out! No need to post anymore!

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:12 pm

Gonna let us in on the secret?

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Help! I can't get my ADS USB Instant ACD device to work...

Help! I can't get my ADS USB Instant ACD device to work...

Thanks!

It didn't work

I GOT VIDEO WORKING!