VHS capture with SDI issue

[cerestan]

I like many many others decided to backup the old family stack of vhs tapes onto PC.

I bought an XCapture-1 for the purpose and recorded a few tapes. The quality was fine but what irked me was I'd get a black screen with "No Signal" whenever the signal from the vcr went out of sync with the capture box.

I read up on the subject here and elsewhere and decided to get a TBC when one became available. After a couple of months I finally managed to get one on the cheap, the BrightEye 3.

The only issue with this it's analogue to SDI output. I did at the same time buy a Brighteye 11 which takes an SDI signal and converts back to analogue. I have had this set up working and all appears fine but I'd rather skip the step of going back to analogue just to have my capture box convert it back to digital again.

I did try this SDI to HDMI converter but I wasn't able to get a signal from it, the seller did send me another with the same result.

Would you have an idea of why the above converter didn't work, or be able to recommend one that would work.

Many thanks

[Goldwingfahrer]

Hello
Here an example as a picture

[cerestan]

Thanks Goldwing, but I'm not really looking into buying another capture device, rather a way of converting the signal from SDI to HDMI so the XCapture-1 can accept the input.

If I can understand why the converter I tried didn't work I can hopefully find one that will.

[Goldwingfahrer]

okay... something like that there is in Ebay.
Whether it in order is white I not.
There are also cheap maps only with SDI of Blackmagic.

eBay-Artikelnummer:
281437946008


http://www.ebay.de/itm/SDI-to-HDMI-C...item4187024098

[cerestan]

Cheers Goldwing, I might just roll the dice and give that one a go.

[rocko]

If your VCR has S-video or yellow composite Out, then try the AVToolbox 8710, order from B&H Photo or Amazon, unless you have endless $$$, to experiment with?? I have never seen those boxes you currently have, mentioned on this site, I think one of them is for pro studio use. Return them if still time.."On The Cheap" needs more defining..this site will tell you that Quick and Cheap will always give the same disappointing results and frustration on your end, as you are obviously experiencing now

[cerestan]

I thought about getting the 8710 but decided to bide my time and see if anything cheaper came along.

The Brighteye units were cheap enough to give a go (£50 for both). It was a gamble as the only other mention I've seen of using them for vhs capture was someone disappointed with the results. They seem to do the job for me as I've had no more "No Signal" popping up whilst testing.

The issue I have isn't so much with them as the SDI to HDMI converter, if I can't find out the reason for it not working I'll either gamble on another cheap solution or find something of better quality (hopefully equally cheap!).