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ADS API-558-EFS Pyro A/V Link Video Converter | 
 enlarge | Brand: ADS Tech
Category: CE
List Price: $179.99
Buy New: $149.99
You Save: $30.00 (17%)
New (2) from $149.99
Rating:  5 reviews
Platform: No Operating System
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: MS Windows XP Media Center compatible
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 3.2 x 10.5 x 9
MPN: API-558-EFS
Model: API-558-EFS
UPC: 757887558130
EAN: 0757887558208
ASIN: B000I7YP06
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Capture any analog video source to high quality DV video format | | • | Compatible with FireWire/1394 enabled PCs and Macs | | • | Component In/Out | | • | Converts analog ((RCA,S-Video or Component Video)to DV video format | | • | Edit with powerful editing sof tware --compatible with editors supporting DV format |
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Product Description
The ultimate tool for capturing and converting video into professional quality DV format and just as valuable for exporting edited DV content to analog video tape recorders.Captures from any analog source and converts it to DV.A/V Link can also transfer DV format back to Analog format.
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| Customer Reviews:
 A good buy June 7, 2008
Overall I am very pleased with this box. I bought it to output After Effects frames and renders to an external NTSC monitor for color correction and it does a great job. (Though I would re-iterate the complaints about the lack of a 4-to-6 pin cable. ADS should have included only a 6-to-6 pin cable and two 4-to-6 pin adapters. Which I ended up buying at a local Target after the box arrived).
I would have preferred to have one of the old Sony DVMC-DA1(2) boxes, but they no longer produce them. It was half the size, and handled input and output through the same connections, allowing you to use half of the cabling and deal only with rewiring the devices at hand when necessary.
Hopefully ADS or Sony read this and start to produce boxes like that again. However in this USB 2.0 marketplace, I doubt that they'd bother. There are more expensive, pro-level devices that perform as well or better in the Firewire domain and the market is more limited.
Just as expected May 16, 2008
This product works great, just as expected. I have been using it to enconde all my VHS and 8mm old tapes. It came with a little on/off switch problem, but I managed to get around that by leaving it always on, and just unplugging it from the outlet. The Adobe software that comes along with it is a MUST. It has a lot of features, and makes you feel like a pro. Definetly a good acquisition.
 No Locked Audio! January 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm sorry I bought this converter, as it does not have locked audio... and as a result, sync drifts over time.
I'm now using the product below, which does not have this problem.
The Canopus adapter does.
Canopus 77010150100 ADVC110 Converter
Poor video sync, faulty power switch November 4, 2007
I am generally disappointed in the operational quality of this product. The Analog video input worked poorly with the two Sony cameras I tried. The ADS fails to lock sync about 50% of the time. The interface with the software control from iMovie is also partially dysfunctional. When I called ADS technical support they were quick to blame the cameras and the iMovie software saying the Pyro A/V Link was operating properly. After a couple of weeks the power switch now fails to latch most of the time. At least this should provide reasonable cause for a warranty fix.
Worked for me! October 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I did experience a lot of frame skipping when converting VHS to digital. I called ADS and they said it usually occurs with poor quality or older tapes. Since the VHS tapes were around 15 years old I couldn't argue that wasn't a factor.
Otherwise worked for my needs - perserve older home videos by converting to digital.
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