Capturing captions from VHS?
 

Hello. I'm trying to figure out how to pick back up on converting VHS tapes. The biggest priority now for me would be in preserving the closed captions data, as I'm hard of hearing. I'm restarting from scratch at this point since all my previous equipment is lost or damaged.

I had some USB capture cards before (Dazzle 150 being one), but have misplaced all of them. Also I couldn't figure out how to get the captions. I think one of the capture cards/software I had used in the past at least got the line 21 data, since there's a black/white strip above the video frame in some of my captured videos.

I have three VCRs but all are damaged. A Phillips VR420CAT21 that eats tapes, a Magnavox VR9010AT01 that has distorted picture, and a Magnavox ZV427MG9 DVD/VHS recorder which won't power on. I never got around to testing whether the ZV427MG9 could get the captions from the VHS side, so I don't know if it would be worthwhile to replace that model specifically.

Does anyone have advice for where to start, in making sure the captions are preserved somehow?

Thanks.

This thread will help. https://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vid...zle-model.html

If the main priority being the close captioning and less so the image quality, then there are some cards that can dump that data using GraphEdit/GraphStudioNext

Only one I could get to work would be a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-850

Thanks. I read it but I find it confusing which option works.

Thanks, so I could buy that, connect a VCR, and digitize a tape into mpg? And then run GraphEdit on the mpg file?

I have Windows XP and a Macbook. Do you know if either will work for that?

Is the image quality really far from what something like Dazzle could do?