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02-11-2022, 07:13 AM
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Hello!

I am looking to figure out what capture software to use and what the best settings are to use to achieve the highest quality capture for VHS tapes.

First I will list out some specs of my setup.

I have a prebuilt PC that I am dedicating solely for video capture. It consists of the following specs:

Prebuilt model: HP Pavilion p7-1370t CTO Desktop PC

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz 3.3
RAM: 6GB
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Motherboard: HP Pavilion Joshua H61 670960-001 LGA1155 uATX Intel
DVD Drive - 16X SMD non-LS
240GB Acer 2.5 inch SSD SATA III 560 MB/s (This is for the OS).
Two Western Digital Blue 4TB 5400RPM SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB cache 3.5" Hard Drives (total of 8TB).

Currently, I am waiting on receiving a premium workflow that I purchased from lordsmurf, I do not have it yet but it consists of the following:

VCR: JVC SR-MV45US
Frame TBC: FC-400
Capture Card: ATI clone capture card

What I have right now for capturing is the following:

VCR: JVC HR-S9800U
Capture Card: Hauppauge USB-Live 2

I also have the Elgato video capture but I find the Hauppauge live 2 to be better.

So for software...

After I stopped using Elgato's software that came with their USB video capture card, I switched to Virtual Dub.

Virtual Dub has a lot more settings and my plan has been to use Virtual Dub. I've noticed from research that the FPS needs to be 29.97 to match VHS etc.

But I am not an expert so I was hoping to get some guidance or advice on what settings to use for whatever capture software I am using, I am also open to any other software that might be superior to Virtual Dub, so please feel free to give suggestions.

For formatting afterwards, I was planning to use handbrake, but also not sure what settings to use for that either, or if there is a better alternative to handbrake.

I'm also wondering if the PC I am using is sufficient for video capture, I think it is but want input from others. I also know Virtual Dub can create large video files, so wasn't sure if my 8TB storage is sufficient.

I want to try and achieve the highest quality possible, and I want to do some test captures with the VCR and capture card I have now while I wait on the better hardware to arrive.

Thanks in advance!

-Kyle
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02-19-2022, 11:28 AM
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I also have the Elgato video capture but I find the Hauppauge live 2 to be better.
It probably is.

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is that Virtual Dub is putting a black bar on the right side in the capture
Yes, that's normal. usb-live 2, shifts it all on the right, some other cards will center it so will have a bit of black on the right and some black on the left.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...pauge-usb.html

This question along with the question of overscan (the thing on the bottom) are the nature of VHS.
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...der-video.html

http://www.digitalfaq.com/guides/vid...s.htm#overscan

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But I am not an expert so I was hoping to get some guidance or advice on what settings to use for whatever capture software I am using, I am also open to any other software that might be superior to Virtual Dub, so please feel free to give suggestions.
The most cited source for such thing is sanlyin's guide
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...-settings.html
With some practice you might figure you may need some tweaks for yourself.

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For formatting afterwards, I was planning to use handbrake, but also not sure what settings to use for that either, or if there is a better alternative to handbrake.
I never suggest handbrake for newbies because it does the opposite. It was made to be "easy to use" for newbies but it has too many profiles and does weird things without people understanding so it ends up making newbies lost even more. My suggestions is something fairly simple like this

https://sourceforge.net/projects/x264guitmod/

There is this guide too http://www.digitalfaq.com/guides/vid...idemux-pt1.htm

Also I suggest you worry about that later. I answered a question not too dissimilar about "handbrake settings" .
You need to figure out what is your goal of re-encoding first. distribute it as "easily watchable" video? quick distribution for your friends or an event? proper/important archival? based on these and the time and patience you have things may change, are you planning to do color-correction on your tapes? denoise? de-rainbow, de-interlace, etc? do you care that much? or not...

p.s: I would not really call this "formatting".

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Any fairly modern PC is powerful enough for video capture, it is something people used to do in 2005 on their weak PCs back then without a problem. So don't worry about PC specs

8TB is surely big enough. Dunno how much tapes you have though.

Also for capture, I suggest using UT codec. I use it for my lossless captures the filesize is a bit smaller than lagarith.

Capture directly on one of the HDD not the OS SSD

Hope that answers your question.
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