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06-08-2020, 12:32 PM
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I am trying to transfer around 100 Digital 8 tapes from Handycam to computer using Firewire.
I want to save the digital files with the best “reasonable” resolution. The process I am using seems to turn out a great video but I would love to find a shortcut.


My current process:
Capture with WinDV
Deinterlace with VirtualDub no compression
Compress h264 and resize in Adobe Premier Pro

Problem:
Capture takes 30 minutes
Deinterlace takes 1 hour
30 minute video = 100gb
Compress 1 hour

Is there a way to reduce the time involved and possibly the amount of storage?
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06-08-2020, 01:36 PM
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Capture with ScenalizerLive, De-interlace with QTGMC and encode with FFMPEG. And no there is no fast way of doing it, not even real time (except for transferring footage from tape), at least if you want quality. But you don't have to sit next to the computer while it's rendering, You can do it over night or when you're outside the house.
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06-09-2020, 12:03 PM
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Do you believe this will reduce the size of the deinterlaced file or just the time required? I currently have 8GB RAM. I am considering purchasing more RAM in hopes of increasing the speed of compression.
Thanks again for responding.
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06-09-2020, 03:19 PM
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No, it will not reduce the speed, QTGMC works at around 4 to 10 frames a second, FFMPEG is about 0.3x to 0.9x the real time speed. Encoding reduces file size.

If you want real time speed capture straight to DVD or H.264 all de-interlacing and encoding/compressing is done on the fly but the don't come back here complaining about the horrible quality.
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06-09-2020, 07:27 PM
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DV is 13gb per hour. I'd simply capture with WinDV (I've tried SC Live on Win 10 but it freezes my machine) then import into Premiere (I don't use it, but the Adobe web sites say that is can de-interlace). Then de-interlace and export as H.264 in your desired re-sized format.

Some other comments:
- Lagarith Lossless encoding (with VDub + Muksun DeInt filter) gives me around 30gb per hour of deinterlaced DV AVI, saving at ~60FPS (on my old i5 CPU).

-If you'll be re-sizing in Premiere, that's another generation down from the "original" H.264. In my view it would be better to simply do one encode, from DV (or Lossless), to the final, "re-sized" output.

I might add I've done dozens of Digital 8 tapes (and bunches of analogue tapes converted to DV-AVI with an ADVC), editing them and outputting to MPEG 2 and MP4/H264). I didn't de-interlace any of them. The only time involved, apart from the real-time capturing, was the inevitable grind for the final encode.
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06-20-2020, 12:02 PM
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Thank you Hushpower.
I am going to try your suggestions and check the results.
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