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1. Best video capture card for converting vhs pro#
2. Best video capture card for converting vhs Pc#
3. Best video capture card for converting vhs plus#
4. Best video capture card for converting vhs free#

Best video capture card for converting vhs pro#

Just be curious with newspaper adverts and stuff - could be pro companies with great prices or rip off amateurs who ruin your copy and your original tapes. Consider paying some nerdy hobbyist you can meet in person and pay a few bucks instead of going down the route of pain yourself. A cheaper newer model might have better mechanics / auto-tracktion etc than a "good" old one.Īlso, maybe there's some "video nerd" nearby, someone at a photo shop or so who has a proven setup for wedding videos etc, maybe even owns a pro vhs deck, someone you can trust with your tapes. Try using a decent deck, sometimes testing yourself which one perfoms best. You can fine-tune compression then, or even do two-step compression, etc.Īlso the tape deck quality is important. If people say they capture to raw, then encode - yes, they are right. The TBC will probably bring the biggest gain in terms of quality, so try adding this step (as in the YT video described)

Yes, I think even the cheap dongels are fine, but get a Dazzle 100 if possible.

You need to check - altgough I think doing a good quality de-interlacing pass looks fine. Getting interlacing preserved and finding a codec that does so as well can be challenging though. My CPU just couldn't handle it in one step, even writing raw video was a challenge.įirst step is capture to HUFYUV I think (which is "raw" video) then a slower encoding pass via ffmpeg to mp4. 264 Now as I remember better I did it in a two step process (just as in the guide). You are right, I mentioned that I digitized straight to. Results are okay though.Īs said, I followed this guide: - which probably is a bit outdated in terms of commands etc. I did about 20 tapes and had enough then (the permanent sirring of the VHS deck.). so the encoding was always lagging and sync being lost.

Best video capture card for converting vhs Pc#

The dongle I used was a pain (easycap), a cheap 5$ thing, and my PC was crappy back then. A TBC will guarantee for a cleaner result. When I digitized I wasn't using a TBC (sadly) and had a lot of issues with chroma fields, lines, unsync and stuff.

Best video capture card for converting vhs plus#

At one point you have to say: it's good enough for me.įrom this YT video (which is quite good), a good combo seems to be the Dazzle 100 "dongle" plus a Time Base Corrector - where the video suggests getting a cheap DV recorder (which has a TBC built in) and use it as chepo tbc - great hint! - a dedicated TBC is very epensive. My experience with digitizing is that it's never 100%. PC wise, using a HP Omen 17 Laptop, i7 10th, 16gb Ram, RTX 2070 Super, so should be enough to handle everything :-) I am wondering if its worth trying to upscale the video of if this will make it look rubbish. I guess my main thing is I want to get the videos over in the best quality I can (well least from VHS), most the videos are mid 80s - late 90s so have been aging for a while.Įditing wise, if I can get into H.284 I can bring it into resolve and happy to edit it there. but then I have seen some cables for £15. On amazon, one video I watched mentioned a Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle, but that's £184. When you say Capture Card, what exactly is that? Thanks, More I look into it, more complicated it is getting haha! Just make sure to tag the post with the flair and give a little background info/context. On Fridays we'll allow posts that don't normally fit in the usual data-hoarding theme, including posts that would usually be removed by rule 4: “No memes or 'look at this '”

Best video capture card for converting vhs free#

No memes or 'look at this old storage medium/ connection speed/purchase' (except on Free Post Fridays).