Hi, thank you very much for the answers!
In my previous message I was very inaccurate,
I will be very precise now.
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Can you give us a bit more information on what format(s) you wish to convert the VHS to?
Do you want to just capture it and move to DVD's or do you want to do restoration and significant editing? The best capture option will depend on your goals. BW
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I am a film editor and I dedicate myself to that.
Now I am writing a movie that I will make myself if everything goes well, I will film it on SVHS.
I have a Panasonic OmniMovie SVHS PV-S770D (NTSC) camera, it is in excellent condition: clean heads, impeccable mechanics and optics.
I have SVHS JVC, PANASONIC, SONY and FUJI (these suck) new cassettes, I will use these new cassettes.
Do you know the Tdk Professional Se-60 Pro-svhs-japan-dyess? I have the possibility of getting some of them.
I don't know if it's important, but the camera will always be mounted on a tripod, so it will be fixed, under control.
I will not capture sound on camera, I will capture the sound with an external recorder. So, I think, a problem is cleared.
I will have a professional colorist at the end of the editing process, if I have a TBC I will have the colorist at the time of capture.
My goal is to have an image as accurate and clean as possible.
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It might also help to know what equipment you have to use currently, VCR, PC and possibly any DVD recorders, etc.BW
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Capture:
I read a lot of accurate information in this forum, and it helped me understand many things.
VCR:
I have the Panasonic OmniMovie camera that maybe can serve as a VCR, I have a SONY SVO-9500 MDP (I know it's not good, but I have it) and I have the possibility of getting a gray ¨Panasonic, SVHS, with many buttons and commands¨ according to the description of a friend who tries to get her from a school where she worked until recently and where she is lying. I still don't know what model it is, nor what state it is in, but I'm hopeful.
I also have the possibility of getting a wonderful Panasonic Ag-1980, 300 uSd in Uruguay, logistics is difficult but I will do everything possible to get it, it is my priority.
S-Video Cables: I get the good ones here.
TBC: I would love to buy an AVToolbox AVT-8710 or a DataVideo TBC-1000, but in my country it is impossible. I will be alert in the forum to see if I find any, and in that case try to send to Buenos Aires.
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Also, do you have experience in setting up PC's? Have you built one of your own? Setting up a capture PC using an AIW card is not rocket science but it is not trivial. If you don't have experience it could be quite difficult.
If you do want to go the AIW route, as ginopilotino says, you should look for a newer, more powerful PC. I think the minimum recommendation would be a P4 at 2Ghz with 2Gb of ram. You could get by with a bit less, but hopefully something like this or better will be available. Windows XP-SP2 is recommended as the most easily set up with the AIW. Other versions can be made to work but require more set-up.BW
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PC and board:
I have the AIW 7500 agp.
Now I need to build everything around.
I will pay a qualified technician who can arm the PC and leave it running.
The PC will only use it for capture.
I have no problem paying the money that is necessary to get a PC that works well with the AIW.
I have read that the E8400 is really good, but I need to know precisely what is the best I can use, to see if every piece I need exists in my country.
Software, codec.
I have the
VirtualDub and my idea is to capture without compressing. Then I will transcode the material to an editing codec, to edit in a MacPro, possibly in Avid Media Composer (it is the software I use, it can also be the Pemiere Pro or FCPX)
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You will also need at least the special purple output cable to connect the VCR to the AIW and a decent sound card (which can be connected to directly from the VCR). Equally important, you will need a fast, large hard drive (or a few of them), probably connected via eSATA. Note that Win XP can only access up to 2Gb drives. Using eSATA will likely require another special PCI card and cables to provide the SATA port on an older PC that most likely won't have them on the motherboard. Using older IDE drives could probably be made to work but it will be more difficult to get working right and difficult to move your files around for post capture work.BW
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I have doubts about the special purple output cable, do you have a specific name to search for?
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Hope this helps a bit... There's a LOT to learn and a lot of options to choose from.
If you haven't already, spend time reading the guides, etc. on this site. Many are somewhat out of date but still provide very useful background in trying to get up to speed.
Also, do some searches on something like "capture pc requirements". Use the top "Google custom search" option, NOT the "advanced search". It does a much better job of finding useful threads on this site than does the advanced search.
BW
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Thank you for all the help you give me.
If I were your neighbor I would not get into this problem, I would simply take my tapes to do the job, but that is not possible for now.
Thanks a lot!
José.