Hello,
I am Teo I am new to this forum i have a long story ( i will try to keep it short).
Sorry for my bad English!
I love my vhs collection and i want to digitaze them i do want the good quality or even the best.
When i am done digitizing them i am not going to throw them out the window, i will keep my collection and also wil keep buying more, so now you know this... lets move on.
(Disclaimer forgive me i didn't now this forum existed until last 2 weeks)
These past 2 months for me have been a real struggle
in short: I taught i had good equipment but i think i dont.
Alright so i have the Panasonic vhs player (NV-FJ615) i always used this one on my big television samsung 50inch lcd from 2009, and to me it had a great picture so i used that one and decided to do my digitizing work, how ever after doing that i got tape noise,blue screens,audio glitches and syncing problem.
(note: i didn't had these when hooked on the tv strange huh?) After discovering this i uesd a other Panasonic this one i use private watching vhs its an older model (NV-SJ206) this one also suffered the blue screens and audio syncing but alot less then the other Panasonic. audio drop out was gone!
Then i used a samsung vcr and this solved the blue screen problem as wel as the audio sync problem but... this had not a great pictrue qaultiy even when cleaned (note: i cleaned my vcrs good).
Got a bit annoyed i did resaerch i started to look for better vhs players and came to know this site and also that my vhs players are actually shitty cheap crap players.
So i drove literly 380 km in total to buy the JVC hr s8500 for 150 euros and i was amazed and happy with the quality this JVC gave me.
However the next problem occurred the audio sync is stil a problem. (sometimes)
Sometimes the movie and audio is great but then suddenly the audio sync goes for 2-5 min and then it gets to normal. I captured the video film Jason x (great movie btw) its good in the first 45 min and then Suddenly the audio has a syncing problem, with syncing problem i mean the picture and audio doesn't match. (it is not the JVC its fault) then i wanted to convert Minorty report Tom Cruise and that one was even worser. the picture is great noting bad but the film starts in a fast forward so in short the film looks like it is fast forwarding the film in secs.
this can be the elgato software problem or the capture card it self?
I did some resaerch i came to this site and i have learned alot CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG!
so bassilcy i need a good s-vhs player with tbc (check)
but also i need a good dvd player that has a virtual tbc and a good capture card? is my elgato good?
my problem: The dvd is not a big problem i can find the Panasonic dmr es10/15 np but i use the elgato video captrue that costed me 99 euros and some peole here say its trash i have to admit the software is basic sometimes it lags.
But what i dont understand i have done hours weeks months of research and the elgato came in the best i watched alot of youtube video stating this is ''the capture card'' becasue the other cards that are like 10 50 euros are trash i dont much care about paying 99 euros or 150 to better equipment as long as it is real good equipment do you understand otherwise i would not have bought the jvc so yeah.
and if the elgato is the problem(i hope not) can some please tel me how i can get a good capture card that doesnt cost me a 1000 dollars/euros so i ask for advice i am starting to get desperate i want good quality without breaking the bank again i can get the panasonic dvd np
On a site note: I use the following equipment: now i use a alienware pc with a amd ryzen 5950x 16gb ddr4 3200mhz xmp 2x 2tb ssd 2,5 inch and a m2 ssd 980 pro samsung i made the alienware a little costum
nvidia 3080 10gb 3x monitors 1 acer nitro xv3 series 240hz 2x iiyama g2730hsu windows 11
If you guys say that i can better use a old windows xp machine thats not a problem because i have the following: retro gaming pc asus p4p800 deluxe p4 ht 3.20ghz 4gb ddr1 400mhz ram and a 250gb ssd sata
amd radeon 4650 agp 1gb card and a creative audigy pci sb0090
greetings and i hope to hear from you guys Teo