Hello Kevin and all,
I have not visited in a while, but I have been activley converting VHS to DVD in the past year or so. I have a PC with XP. I have the ATI X800 with MMC version 9.08 and Catalyst version 5.11. It works flawlessly with my conversions using
HUFFYUV 2.2.0 no less!
No real question, just thought I would relay my MMC horror story....
I decided yesterday to upgrade my MMC to version 9.16 and also the latest drivers and Catalyst. Boy what a mistake! I tried to make a test capture using
Huffyuv and it would not capture correctly. When I tried to open the folder it corrupted it. I tried uninstalling MMC 9.16 and re installing MMC 9.08 with the latest catalyst, but they were conflicting.
Long story short, I completely uninstalled all ATI files from my harddrive and re installed MMC version 9.08 and Catalyst version 5.11.
I am glad I saved all the down loads for these versions on my hard drive as well as a data DVD as I was unable to locate these versions on the ATI website.
This combination of ATI X800 and MMC 9.08 has been superb with HUFFYUV and very stable. From time to time I might have my audio slightly ahead of the video. I easily take care of this in Premiere by advancing the video track about 5 frames.
When I first got the the X800 I had a cheap $40.00 creative sound blaster card. I always had audio sync. issues. The problem was that the cheaper sound cards have latency issues. I upgraded to an audigy ZS and it works great.
After cathing up on your forum I noticed alot of frustration with later versions of MMC. I hope my story helps someone who might be thinking of upgrading their MMC. Don't do it!
One question,
With ATI no longer supporting future versions of MMC what choices are their? If a person was willing to spend up to $2000.00 for a analog to digital conversion workflow solution, what are the options?
It seems strange that there are only PC graghic cards that will do this as a side benifet using third party codecs. Are there any high quality stand alone Software and hardware options in the market that are dedicated strictly to the task of analog to digital conversion with quality being top priority? I.E. 12 bit conversion with high sampling rates.
Thanks, and good to be back