The VHS tapes that I am wanting to digitalise are tapes that are made up of multiple short clips that were originally recorded on a handheld camcorder and then transferred onto these VHS tapes.
My plan for the end result was to have digital files of the full tapes, which I could store as captured. Then use these files and split the recording up into clips and then could give each of these clips names, this would save me searching through 5 minute clips on a 3 hour recording for example and make them easier to share.
So far with
VirtualDub I have only changed the FPS, audio resolution, video resolution and compression. Should I be applying any filters or cropping etc before capturing, or should I be editing the capture after?
I was thinking of having two versions of the cut clip, one left in the lossless format, and another in a compressed format that I would be able to upload or play on devices without having the
Huffyuv codec installed. I might also want to burn some to DVD for some of my family who still use them.
I have done some test recordings in
VirtualDub and they play on my PC with VLC with deinterlace turned on without any problems. But I imagine the family members I would be wanting to share these with will get stuck.
