Any significant noise like from VHS just creates blocky MPEG-2 at a standard DVD bitrate. Composite video is a no-no IMHO (at least on the newer ones with its weird comb filter and muddy de-noise) but S-Video can be acceptable if you have a *very* clean source say the playback from a DV cam. MPEG-2 is an option, however I'm not really satisfied personally with the resulting files from say a Hauppauge card. If you get dropped frames your heads might be getting dirty or cant read the tape right or something is *really* wrong, as such a task is trivial by several magnitudes for modern PCs. I'm capturing all my VHS to DV because of this. WinDV will do just fine despite its age, and it is a mature format and very editable. Just to give some perspective thereĭV capture is still DV, its in the digital domain the entire time and there is no recompression. Now with 2TB drives being just under $100 you can hold more hours of DV than total GB in drives 8 years ago. Let alone processing power at the time doing any rendering out was about 1/3rd realtime. When you did a project you pretty much had to devote the entire disk to just a couple of tapes. Thanks, When I first started working with DV (Canon GL2 + Canopus DV Raptor) a big hard drive was 80-120GB. But simple splitting of files by scene detection would be nice Are there any better capture softwares that anyone would recommend?Īlso, could you describe the high bitrate mpeg 2 method to me, so I can try that too and compare how they go? Not planning on doing much editing as theres just so many tapes to get through. 13Gb per hour does sound excessive though, but I'm assuming this will ensure the best quality? I'll give that WinDV software a go too, thanks. Ok so I already have a 1Tb hard drive and firewire cable to get me started, 2Tb hard drives aren't ridiculously expensive so thats a good option too. Then they will be played back by the HTPC to the HD tv (in case this helps any compression/encode choices) also we're not interested in burning to dvd. But basically what I'm asking is whats the best compromise? And whats the best software to use to achieve this. Understandably both trade off against each other. However file size is also a consideration as there will be many tapes to do. What we now want to do is capture all the tapes to HDD so that we can continue to watch the tapes even if the camcorder decides to die. Quality is fairly reasonable, doesnt quite compare to HD Blurays but we're more than happy with it :P Over time we've built up some 50-80 mini dv tapes, and so far we've simply enjoyed playback by connecting the camcorder to the TV. Maybe there isn't one set way of doing things, but I'm hoping someone here can suggest something for meīasically we have a Mini-DV camcorder, quite dated now but was pretty good at the time. And I have tried researching some answers, but struggled to find one conclusive answer as to whats best.
Hi, There's quite a few forums around the web, covering this topic quite a lot.
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