Hi all,
Thanks to LordSmurf, I'm now experimenting with an ATI USB 600 and, crucially, a TBC that is doing a good job of avoiding dropped frames when I'm capturing old VHS tapes.
I'm curious about one thing. I read everywhere here that the best way to remove 'waste' footage from the start and end of the clip, and to crop it to avoid black lines and distortion at the bottom of the frame, is to use
VirtualDub. Keep it Lossless until you have to, right?
So I'm doing that. I'm in Full Processing Mode in
VirtualDub and I take my raw footage in
huffyuv lossless AVI - about 30 minutes and 12Gb - and cut a few seconds off the start and a few more off the end. Then I crop, cutting even numbers of pixels to give me a nice, clean image.
Then I make sure
huffyuv is selected as compression and audio is a direct stream copy and I save AVI. It doesn't give me any complaints, no errors, but the final file size is 26Gb!
Any reason why this would be?
Discy