ES10 vs. Canopus vs. MiniDV camcorder vs. AV-HDMI converter?
Hi,
I've been testing out my Hauppauge 610 capture card and old Canon ZR100 MiniDV camera and for kicks decided to try using the camcorder as a pass through device. Wow, whenever I captured straight from the VCR to capture card to PC the video looked incredibly distorted, like the tracking and frames were highly distorted. I can see why TBC is needed. Then I connected my VCR to the camcorder and just watched a tape on that and the video looked pretty much just how it looks like on my TV, no frame sync issues at all. So I decided to then plug my capture card into the camcorder, dumb I know, at least until my FireWire PCIe card gets here, and the quality was again much better than if I directly connected it to the VCR. Basically I feel like the capture card was useless at this point if I can get the FireWire connection to work on my PC. Will the ES10/15 or Canopus device give me the same effect as the MiniDV camcorder? I just care about everything not blinking and the edges not being wavy/blurry. There's those silly YouTube videos of the AV to HDMI converters which also seem to have the same effect as my camcorder I think. Perhaps I should exchange my AV to USB capture card for an HDMI to USB capture card and buy an AV to HDMI converter box? |
For MiniDV, just download the video through FireWire, otherwise you're adding digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversions, and then you still have to decide whether to store the video uncompressed at around 25-40 GB/hour (versus MiniDV's 14) or compress it lossy for what would be the second time.
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The problem here is that you're lacking perspective. You're like a caveman that just discovered fire. "Now I can cook meat! This is the best that food can ever taste!" ... says the caveman that hasn't yet discovered spices. DV has many flaws and limitations. It removes and dulls color, adds blocks, etc. DV is literally the tech of the 1990s, a crippled video format to work on the Pentium II/III computers of that era. Lossless is from the 2000s-2010s, the heyday of video capture. Quote:
ES10/15 = sort of, arguably stronger, but also weaker depending on exact camera Quote:
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