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Originally Posted by guyburns
Capture device: Bluefish444 Epoch SuperNova CG
Software: TBCBluefish 444 IngestStore
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HD card, and all HD cards tend to "also do" SD quite poorly.
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Meh.
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NTSC: Samsung SV-5000W Multistandard VCR
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Garbage. Any random VCR tends to have better PAL and NTSC. The SECAM is passable, but that's because SECAM players are all fairly craptastic.
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TBC: Leitch DPS-575 or X75
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Known problems.
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With an absolute guarantee that there are no dropped frames or sync issues, assuming good quality tapes – which mine are.
QUES: Can such a guarantee be given?
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Not with that stuff in use. In general, difficult to do, have 0 drops. There's often a few, somewhere, and it may require recapture based on factors. That DPS-575 is pretty much guaranteed to allow (or even cause) some drops. Those ancient rack-mount "pizza box" TBCs are not meant for consumer analog videotape sources. They're just not.
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apart from the Samsung 5000. If I'm wanting top quality transfers, does the Samsung 5000 remove this company from my list? I'm also not keen on paying $40 for a USB stick because "due to security and safety reasons" they won't plug in my SSD.
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I'm not impressed at all.
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QUES: Is $60 a capture (for 90-seconds or for a full tape) a typical cost? [Australian dollars]
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Only if you're getting quality, and nothing here screams quality. Wrong items, mediocre items. Not impressed. It almost seems scrounged, and not put together with care. Just random stuff that was available, add a fancy card because they were gullible, and there you go. I've seen this too many times. In fact, blowing $2k on that capture card was probably the dumbest thing ever, especially given that the NTSC VCR is garbage. I sometimes wonder WTF these people are doing.