Jan Stary wrote:
On Aug 17 16:06:05, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote:
I wouldn't even consider converting something that is readily available
in digital form. The analog VHS material is not available elsewhere,
and is slowly deteriorating on these tapes.
Otherwise :
1) Find decent hardware (not TV cards) that can capture compressed video
in real time (2nd hand ebay may help).
You mean UNcompressed, right?
No, I mean compressed. The tape is analogue, it's then captured to a
compressed digital format with the
capture card offloading the task from the CPU. It's entirely possible to
work directly with compressed
video and it'll be much lighter on CPU and I/O than capturing in raw
format. Ideally you want
hardware that can capture in your chosen format, so that lengthy
transcoding time is not required
and (if you're fussy - doesn't really apply in the case of VHS) there's
no quality loss in the final product.
n particular, my (limited) experience is that video capture on TV cards
is A Bit Shit, and capturing uncompressed video is not fun, even if
modern hardware is probably adequate to handle it.
After consulting other video people, I will use a digital video camera
that can take analog input from a VCR and save it.
Sounds wise. Inputing via firewire should be a lot easier than faffing
around with analogue capture
PK
