How Does it Work?
Video Advantage ADX is an affordable, full-featured video production system for serious amateurs or semi-professionals. It includes everything you need for capturing videos from digital or analog camcorders and creating movies in a wide variety of formats, including streaming video for the Web, DV tapes, VCDs, SVCDs or DVDs.
Analog Video Capture Process
In the analog video capture process, the signal from an analog video source is connected to the analog video and audio connectors on the Video Advantage back panel bracket. The analog video signal is converted into digital format by the Video Advantage PCI card and transferred to the hard drive as a digital video file. The analog audio signal is converted into digital format by the sound card and merged with the digital video signal in the digital video file. This process is controlled by either the AD FullCap or PowerDirector software applications, depending on the type of video compression desired.
AD FullCap lets you transfer digital video from your camcorder to the PC hard drive in either DV compressed or AVI uncompressed formats. PowerDirector lets you transfer digital video from your camcorder in AVI, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats. If your digital camcorder to the OHCI standard, then AD FullCap and PowerDirector can both be used to control the camera from the software's on-screen controls so you can stop, pause, fast-forward, rewind, play and record without having to touch the camera controls.