ADS API-558-EFS Pyro A/V Link Video Converter
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Digital product summary information
Manufacturer: ADS TechnologiesPlatform: No Operating System
Model: API-558-EFS
Product 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
Digital camera reviews of ADS API-558-EFS Pyro A/V Link Video Converter
Digital camera Review: A good buy
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Summary of ADS API-558-EFS Pyro A/V Link Video Converter
High Quality Analog to DV Video Converter Capture any analog video source to high quality DV video format Compatible with FireWire/1394 enabled PCs and Macs The ultimate tool for capturing and converting video into professional quality DV format and justVideo Converters
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