New User, My Project & some questions
Hello to all.
My name is Steve & I am a new poster on this forum. I have been lurking here for the past 18 months & have found a wealth of knowledge here regarding VHS converting. Thank you to all for that. Because of this, I have chosen to go down the restoration path for my VHS conversions. I finally have all of the gear required & am about to get started. Moving Along: (I will split this into sub-headings so it's easier to break down) Here is what I have: The VCR's Panasonic NV-HD600 (Composite only) JVC S5700AM (SVHS - S-Video) These are the original machines my tapes were recorded on. The 'Other' Devices Datavideo TBC-1000 Elite Video BVP-4 Plus Signvideo DR-1000 (PAL) detailer (Lucky to track this one down on ebay after seeing it here - Thanks Northpole!) The Capture Card/Machine ATI AIW 2006 PCI Express 2GB of RAM Windows XP The capture method: MPEG-2 Some light editing will be done with VideoReDo Plus. (Ad's etc) The Videos 500 tapes (estimated) PAL Format Motorsport & some NBA are the content (plus a few bits & bobs here & there) Some are LP (recorded on the Panasonic) Many are SVHS (recorded on the JVC) A small amount of tapes are home recordings purchased off other people (not recorded by me) I converted some of the LP tapes over to SP SVHS about 9 years ago so they are 2nd generation recordings. I did tape over some of the originals. (VCR to VCR dub - Silly in hindsight) The Storage Hard Drives Backing up as I go. I will have a copy at all times. My Questions: My line of thinking is the chain will go like this: VCR --- TBC --- BVP-4 Plus --- DR-1000 --- Capture Card Is this correct? Do the units get connected via S-Video cables throughout the chain? I know you advocate an S-Video output as much as possible. Should I use the JVC VCR as a pass through device? IE Hooking the Panasonic up to the JVC & using that to obtain an S-Video output? If so, does the TBC get hooked up to the Panasonic or JVC VCR? I've seen threads here where users have said the Elite Video BVP-4 Plus processes PAL but I've then seen threads where this boils down to the specific unit itself. Can you tell me how I will know my unit will process PAL or not? And lastly; With the Signvideo DR-1000 it's been mentioned it's not needed for all tapes, just certain ones. Can you gve me an example regarding what tapes this device is best with? That's all I have for now. (Phew...) ;) Thanks again. :thumb: |
Hi Steve, welcome.
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MPEG-2 viability also heavily depends on the choice of capture card. I notice you didn't mention your capture card. Quote:
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It's important to understand any repairs made to this VCR may make it harder to play back tapes it originally created, as VCRs wear over time and go out of spec. Therefore your tapes may be recorded slightly out of spec -- and that's why it's always good to have an original recording VCR available for playback. Quote:
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Or you can take advantage of Blu-ray media, either as file storage or as BDMV/BDAV content. With Blu-ray BDAV/BDMV format, a 720x480 MPEG-2 can use up to 15Mbps video (DVD-Video was max of 9.8Mbps video, or 10.08Mbps total video+audio). That's a quite generous bitrate, and will often give you near-transparent quality, assuming the source is good. Quote:
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VCR composite > TBC composite > VCR s-video > BVP4 s-video > capture card The VCR here accepted composite and passed out s-video. You rarely have to do something like this -- but again -- the BVP-4 proc amp poses one such scenario. Quote:
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These sources generally benefit from detailers:
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It's a very specific situation where you'd want or need to use a VCR as a comb filter pass-through device. The Elite Video BVP-4 does not handle composite very well, so you'd want to put a VCR before it, or after it, so that the signal I/O is always s-video. The VCR acts as a composite/s-video converter, thus making all other hardware happy and cooperative in your hardware chain. Only do this if you find yourself in this specific situation. I've yet to come across other video hardware that is as picky as the BVP-4. It's a powerful proc amp, yet still worth both the money and frustration for the results you'll get out of it. |
Thanks.
Kpmedia & Lordsmurf.
Thank you both for your replies. I have a good starting point to work from. :thumb: I think it will take me some time to get my 'chain' operational. Getting my capture card (ATI AIW 2006 PCI-E) to function at all is proving a challenge. Such is the way with technology when the learning curve is massive. I will place a post on that in the correct sub-forum. I will turn my attention to the hardware after that. The reason I asked about the VCR passthrough is my LP Panasonic tapes don't track in the JVC at all. And as you say the BVP-4 Plus doesn't like composite inputs so I was wondering if those tapes should be sent via the JVC S-Video output. Regarding my VCR's, they are old but operational. I think the Panasonic will hold up it's end but my JVC's loading mechanism can be problematic. I am going to be really careful with them. Yes, the urge to get it done 'right' will win the day. I think this project will take me longer than I originally antipated. Because of the curve, I will likely need to ask a few very basic questions along the way. Please be gentle. :D Next Stop: Getting the capture card to operate..... Thanks. :cool: |
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