Hi everyone, thanks to what I have read on the forum in recent years I am completing my video capture chain from VHS, VHS-C to PC. Right now I have:
- Panasonic NV-FS200
- ADVC-300
I get rid of the ADVC300 on the advice of various forum members, and thanks to lordsmurf who will send me the TBC green AVT-8710 and new acquisition device, I improve the acquisition chain a lot.
When I'll have everything I would like to acquire while losing as little as possible, so in 720x576 with
Huffyuv losless codec. I will keep the source files in archive but how to filter and clean up the videos I still have to choose.
The videos are all homemade from a camera, some cassettes instead come from a previous transfer from Super8 to VHS made by a photographic laboratory (very rough).
I know that it is better to avoid the crop and I would also like to keep the interlacing, I see no reason to remove it (at least in the sources to keep archived).
I saw how to mask the edges in
virtualdub, but I wonder, if a resize is not done, how to get to a centered image, and to a resolution that is compatible for future encoding (Mpeg2 or h264)?
Should I activate the letterbox and leave the black frame up to 720x576?
Do I go down to a slightly lower resolution? 720x540?
Is it better that the PAR stays in 4:3? Square pixels?
If I left interlaced maybe it would be better to have the final files in mpeg2 Standard DVD?
The vision will be via HTPC connected to the 16: 9 TV, but obviously to be seen in the original 4:3 format
Some advice?