Hello everyone,
1st off, let me apologize in advance if this has been discussed before. But I have literally just signed after viewing the latest threads in the section and didn't find what I was looking for.
2ndly, I'm new to video restoration and I'm finding a solid workstation to be a bit of a struggle. I purchased a capture card from BlackMagicDesign and with a small amount of tapes, it doesn't drop any frames. But with about 95% of tapes, which are generally in poor condition.
After reading a few articles, it seems that the fix to my problem, (according to people I've discussed with but don't know their background) would be a pro deck in conjunction with a TBC.
What I'm asking I guess is what would your ultimate setup be? Or maybe what your setup be if you had about a $500 budget? All I want to do is take old tapes that are in reasonable condition, maybe do a little colour correction (I have Adobe Production Premium CS5) and then spit it out to a DVD.
Just for kicks a friend of mine lent me his "Dazzle" capture device (rca to usb) but it's not recognized in Premiere. I downloaded a trial version of the software that it was made for. On one side, it didn't drop a single frame which blew my mind (cuz I just spent over $200 on my BMD) but the quality was not very good - any opinions on that..?
Thanx in advance.
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