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

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